CAFE fuel standards being relaxed!

[MORaptor1]

Winning!

This is great news. Hopefully the hybrid stuff goes the way of the dodo.

 

[ToadSmasher2K1]

Hopefully our country continues it's trek back to sanity.

 

[Swacer_2]

Not sure I see the overall win here. The CAFE standards drove efficiency in vehicles, its why we don't have 8L V8s getting 9mpg in family SUVs. Sure, not everything is a win, I see little to no difference between the 6.2L in my Gen 1 Raptor and the 3.5 in my Gen 3. But in general, it reduced our demand on fuel.

By introducing electric and hybrid cars, it further reduced demand.

Now, we look at the supply and demand curve. If there is no mandate to ensure we do better on mpg or provide alternatives so the rest of us can have the available fuel, the demand will increase. If supply stays the same, hate to say it, but price goes up. Even with more american oil supply, capitalism will ensure the price goes up. No one is working to make life cheaper for you. Don't kid yourself otherwise.

Oil prices won't go down except unless we end up in a recession.

 

[GordoJay]

Winning!

This is great news. Hopefully the hybrid stuff goes the way of the dodo.

Nothing wrong with hybrids. They are the efficient solution.

 

[thatJeepguy]

This is fantastic news. Passenger car pollution is not bad here. You should see central and south america. They don't even have cat converters on most of the cars.

 

[ToadSmasher2K1]

its why we don't have 8L V8s getting 9mpg in family SUVs

This sounds fun, Ford are you listening?

 

[smurfslayer]

Not sure I see the overall win here. The CAFE standards drove efficiency in vehicles, its why we don't have 8L V8s getting 9mpg in family SUVs. Sure, not everything is a win, I see little to no difference between the 6.2L in my Gen 1 Raptor and the 3.5 in my Gen 3. But in general, it reduced our demand on fuel.

The win is : Now we have more choices. WE can decide if we want a soy-boy econobox, or a ginormous, gas guzzling v8 or something in between.
Personally, I’d like to see more research into getting external combustion tech into cars, trucks & suvs. Because ‘Murica.

 

[DFS]

I'm okay with efficiency being the goal, but get rid of the emissions BS. Modern diesel reliability has been destroyed by EGR, DPF, DEF, and so on with very little measurable "emissions" effect.

 

[thatJeepguy]

Its also actually a lot deeper than epa . Chevron deference being struck down means it will be very hard to rebuild and enforce laws that are not passed by congress after this. 700 enforcement agents are being dismissed via buyout. Scumbags.