Trump Admin Moves To Toss Out Biden’s
Fuel Economy Rules
Daily Caller,
by
Ireland Owens
Original Article
Posted By: snakeoil,
1/30/2025 12:36:22 AM
Newly-confirmed Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Sean Duffy is already moving to overturn the Biden-Harris administration’s stringent fuel economy standards for vehicles. Shortly after Duffy was sworn in as transportation secretary on Tuesday, he signed a memorandum to begin the process of resetting the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
crashnburn 1/30/2025 1:02:01 AM (No. 1885132)
Goodbye mandated EVs. Let the free market decide.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
DVC 1/30/2025 1:06:47 AM (No. 1885136)
THIS is how you get your NORMAL cars back. No more, "you can have anything you want as long as it is powered by a four cylinder with a turbo". The only question is will auto makers respond, or assume that these rules will get reversed in four years and not even bother to react to these rule changes?
If these fuel economy regs (CAFE) can be permanently gone, then car makers can build the cars we REALLY want again.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
hershey 1/30/2025 6:26:37 AM (No. 1885219)
Muscle Cars Rule!!!!! MAGA...Big blocks and Hemi's....right on....
7 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
chumley 1/30/2025 7:46:34 AM (No. 1885253)
When I was young I owned a late 1960s Dodge. Just for fun I put it on a truck scale and was surprised it was so heavy at 4048 lbs. Now I own a 2023 SUV that is made mostly of plastic. It weighs over 6000 lbs. Much of that weight is government mandated safety and pollution abatement equipment. How can they mandate better mileage when their previous mandates make the car so much heavier?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
smak90 1/30/2025 7:48:28 AM (No. 1885257)
The auto manufacturers spent billions already extracting horsepower out of small turbo charged engines that most likely fail before they should. It would be nice to see them get back to simple V8s that can go to several 100,000 miles. I doubt we'll see that but it would be nice. Don't even get me started on removing some of the emissions from heavy equipment diesel engines. It would save $100,000s per unit in purchase and repairs over the life of the equipment.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bpl40 1/30/2025 8:11:23 AM (No. 1885273)
There is a niche market for EVs. As virtue signals for entitled & spoiled beneficiaries of liberal parental trusts. To careen down Kalifornia's coastal highways. For hard working middle class families to use for day to day transportation needs? Not so much.
2 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/30/2025 8:14:13 AM (No. 1885279)
Cafe Standard is what put families in pick-up trucks instead of Station Wagons.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
NamVet70 1/30/2025 8:31:07 AM (No. 1885288)
I would be good to eliminate all CAFE standards and let automakers build the kind of vehicles the people want to buy.
11 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 1/30/2025 9:11:38 AM (No. 1885312)
CAFE mpg standards are designed to get us into EV’s. As far as I’m concerned, this is the United States of America and we have lots of oil. There is no need to copy Europe or Japan, which are smaller countries without their own oil and have to charge nine dollars a gallon for gasoline to run their sewing machine engines in tiny cars to stretch out their gas supplies. We have a very large country with big, wide roads to get us to our jobs that may be hours away from our homes. In short, we ain’t Europe! Let me have by big V-8 with 400 HP. I’m happy with 24 mpg on the highway and 15 around town. If you want a saki burner, feel free to buy one and putt around to your hearts content. Just don’t force me into one of those.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 1/30/2025 9:19:10 AM (No. 1885317)
The automakers need to produce some affordable cars without all the bells and whistles. In most newer cars the dashboard lights up with a half-dozen 'reminders' and all kinds of beeps and tones that assault your senses. Bring back the bare-bones Chevy Biscayne or Plymouth Fury.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/30/2025 9:42:05 AM (No. 1885342)
I want my Oldsmobile Super 88 - - or my Pontiac Star Chief. Those were the cars!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 1/30/2025 10:10:16 AM (No. 1885358)
I must confess that I own an EV. I use it to drive around my lake community, fish and visit neighbors. It's called a golf cart and perfect for what it's designed for. My regular vehicles are gasoline powered and always will be. My "cold dead hands" etc.
7 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 1/30/2025 12:51:28 PM (No. 1885465)
Yes, the Democrats used this tool to drive their agenda which no on actually wanted.
What's also happened is the EV vehicles are all MUCH heavier than a standard vehicle which is having an impact on our roads and highways since they weren't built to handle the extra weights over their projected lifespan. Those owning EV vehicles may not be paying gas taxes but should be paying something towards the use and abuse of the roads.
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