Posted on 08/22/2018 10:25:29 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The Trump administration recently proposed the Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule. The proposed rule offers modifications to Obama-era Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards with a preferred alternative for model years 2021 through 2026.
Without a doubt, the Trump administrations proposed revision is a welcome victory for consumers wallets and for consumer choice.
The Obama administration implemented fuel-efficiency mandates that would force auto manufacturers to have a fleetwide fuel-economy average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025. The new rules preferred change would maintain the existing fuel-economy mandate through 2020 (increasing to 37 mpg) and keep the level at 37 mpg through 2025.
New fuel-efficiency standards create a number of unintended consequences, including higher prices for new cars and costly retooling of existing auto plants.
A 2016 Heritage Foundation analysis estimates the Obama fuel-economy mandates increased new-car prices $6,800 more than the pre-2009 baseline trend, and that eliminating the more aggressive standards would save 2025 car buyers at least $7,200 per vehicle.
As my colleagues detail, Economists and engineers accurately predicted that the [model year] 2016 standards would hurt consumers by at least $3,800 per car.
Consumersnot government bureaucratsshould make decisions about what cars they drive.
If consumers value saving money on gasoline, they will simply choose to purchase more fuel-efficient cars, and automakers will meet that demand without a federal mandate. If consumers value other attributesvehicle weight, engine power, safetyWashington shouldnt force automakers to ignore consumers preferences.
In fact, a 2011 paper from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that if vehicle weight, horsepower, and torque were held constant at 1980 levels, fuel efficiency would have increased 60 percent from 1980 to 2006 instead of the 15 percent increase that did occur.
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This is being pitched by the Left and the envirofascists as a “War on Fuel Efficient Cars.”
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37mpg is still way too high for anything other than a sewing machine. 57mpg means driving all electric, with no infrastructure to support it.
I agree about the aerodynamics. I have a VW CC and a 2013 Beetle convertible. Both have the 2.0T turbocharged 4-cylinder engine. The CC is much heavier, yet consistently gets 33-34 MPG on the highway. The Beetle gets 30 tops (with the top up).
I attribute the difference entirely to aerodynamics. The CC is extremely ‘swoopy’ whereas the Beetle is, well, not.
The number crunchers see the savings to consumers via mileage efficiency and price the vehicle equipment to capture the consumer savings!!
Environmentalists, Globull Warmists and Liberals Hardest Hit!......................................good..................
37 is still too high IMO
I’ll keep my 96 Dodge 3/4, V-10 thank you.
Wow, Bridgeport is a neat place, and it’s high. We go to Mammoth to ski in the Spring and we often take Luther and Monitor Passes ( if they are open) which takes you down to 395 near Topaz Lake. We always stop at the “hot pots” just south of Bridgeport for a “soak” on the way home to get rid of the aches and pains from skiing. During our stay at Mammoth we go to Hot Creek to drink and soak. Mammoth is absolutely the best ski area in CA.
Due to back and neck surgeries, boarding and skiing days are sadly over for me. Still purty though. Bridgeport 4th of July was awesome. Great fireworks show and like an old small town 4th celebration.
” Bridgeport 4th of July was awesome. Great fireworks show and like an old small town 4th celebration.”
Yes, and you know small-town America is still where it’s heart is, even in California. All you need do is get out of the urban areas, and you can find Real America. We run races at Thunderhill in Willows ( the track that is owned by SFRSCCA). Once you get onto I-5 going north, you realize that you’re back in real America.
I agree. Drop it back to 25, which I believe was the original 1970s standard.
If we want good roads without imposing VMTs, tolls or sales levies, we would need a gas tax of at least $1.50/gallon, IMO. Maybe a little lower if we got rid of union labor agreements.
So, we will have bumpy roads forever in places, because if we told people what was really needed to fund them, the screaming and caterwauling would be heard from Anchorage to Miami.
Governor Corbett worked with the PA legislature, for example, to get more realistic about road funding. Guess what happened; he lost his re-election bid.
I saw electric charging stations at the Delaware Turnpike (I-95) service plaza on the way back from seeing a friend in Pennsylvania. I believe, however, that the service plaza IS a state-owned facility being run by a private company.
How many charging areas will pop up entirely in the hands of private enterprise, without subsidy, I have no idea.
The erf survived WWII. Imagine how many planes were in the air, ships at sea, tanks and trucks running on any given day and then a couple of A bombs set off as well and all that didn’t harm the earth.
Some liberal mayor (I think South Miami Beach) said that it will cause the sea to rise FASTER. Pssst, moron, your city is built on a swamp. So is Miami and most of Miami-Dade County...
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