CAFE stds on the chopping block
NYT Good riddance. There is no way that the average fleet mileage would ever come close to those numbers anyway. Hopefully the ethanol scam will be cut at the same time.
Forum Discussion
wilber1 wrote:
US automakers are global players and the rest of the world isn't going to stop moving forward because of something a US president signs. They will continue to develop these vehicles or become uncompetitive in wold markets.
The US car manufacturers cannot sell the high efficiency and small cars they make now. Americans want pickup trucks, SUVs and big cars. They are much safer if nothing else. I'm not saying that no one buys those small cars, we bought my wife a Corolla a month ago, but we have the F350 to go with it.
You can look overseas now and find lots of even small vehicles being sold over there. That is because of their outrageous fuel prices and in a lot of these places the road system has many very narrow and twisty roads left over from medieval times. Those manufacturers have occasionally tried to sell those very small vehicles here with little success. The mini-Cooper seems to be an exception.
I've driven several electric vehicles at work before I retired. Those were the vehicles taken last out of the car pool after all the gas powered vehicles were checked out or reserved. People didn't like to drive them, me included. Especially the Prius that they had.
