The Department of Transportation released a new rule for the country’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards as expected, discourage the idea of economical vehicles.
When Sean Duffy was installed as Transportation secretary last January, he at once announced that any fuel efficiency standards put in place under the Biden administration were dead and buried.
In July last year it told automakers that it was not going to bother fining any of them for exceeding the CAFE limits, going back as far as 2022.
We did not arrive at that destination, due to constant assaults on fuel efficiency under the first Trump administration.
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The federal government’s war on fuel efficiency claimed another victim today. The Department of Transportation released a new rule for the country’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards as expected, discourage the idea of economical vehicles. Among the changes is a rollback to fuel economy numbers not seen in more than a decade, below even the low standards carried out in 2020, the last time President Trump was in power.
The new goal is just 34.9 mpg by model year 2031.
When Sean Duffy was installed as Transportation secretary last January, he at once announced that any fuel efficiency standards put in place under the Biden administration were dead and buried.
The notice of final rulemaking criticizes the idea of emissions credits and blames them for automakers not investing in cleaner engine technology, and from model year 2028, such credits are a thing of the past.
Then again, since last year, Duffy’s department hasn’t exactly been proactive about enforcing the existing rules. In July last year it told automakers that it was not going to bother fining any of them for exceeding the CAFE limits, going back as far as 2022.
Passenger cars and light trucks have been classified separately under CAFE, with weaker standards for the latter.
The meagre standard of 34.9 mpg seems even more pathetic in light of history. We did not arrive at that destination, due to constant assaults on fuel efficiency under the first Trump administration.
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