The Trump administration will soon announce sharply lower vehicle fuel-economy standards, reversing a push by the prior administration to force automakers to build more fuel-efficient vehicles, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday.
US to announce sharply lower vehicle fuel economy requirements
a month ago by technocrit to c/fuckcars
The Trump administration will soon announce sharply lower vehicle fuel-economy standards, reversing a push by the prior administration to force automakers to build more fuel-efficient vehicles, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday.
so far..stupidest, so far....
Have you read the Venezuela news?
"(increase) fuel spending by $185 billion", disincentives electric cars. It's wrapped up like it's a good thing, but that's a red herring.
oil barons getting what they paid for.
I am not really sure what it means. The CAFE standards we had encouraged larger, less fuel efficient vehicles and discouraged smaller, more efficient ones.
While I wanna shout at the headline, fuel economy standards are something we need to revisit anyway.
Just what nobody wanted or needed!
The Obama administration tightened fuel-economy requirements
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/...
Trump was elected. The Trump administration killed Obama's measures:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/...
Joe Biden was elected. Biden tightened fuel-economy requirements:
Donald Trump was elected. The Trump administration killed fuel-effiency rules again :
https://www.theguardian.com/...
Most americans don't pay attention, but it's just insane.
Unfortunately, the U.S. car norms influence Canada. Because Canadian officials copy american car norms. It's the reason why they drive the heaviest and least efficient cars in the world

US speed running to idiocracy.
which is good i guess because adding 1% fuel efficiency ends up making the engine 15% more expensive at a certain point; you can't go below a certain fuel consumption level but if you try, you pay hard for it.
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It's not like it will change much, with the war going on skyrocketing the fuel price
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