Little-Acorn
04-01-2010, 01:50 PM
As you know, the most effective way to increase the gas mileage of a car, is to make it smaller and lighter. This also results directly in more fatalities and severe injuries when the smaller, lighter cars crash into each other, and FAR more severe results when a small car crashes into a big one.
Today new rules went into effect, forcing a 40% increase in corporate fuel ecomony (CAFE) standards in the next six years. Most of this increase will come from either making cars far more complex via hybrid technology (a Prius gets better gas mileage than a like-sized Toyota Yaris, but costs almost twice as much)... or by making cars smaller and lighter. The latter option will be much more economically viable for most car buyers... until a crash occurs.
In a complete reversal from its adherents' screams over "trading blood for oil", the Obama administration is now demanding exactly that.
The direct increases in fatalities and severe injuries, have now been mandated by the Obama administration, which has decided the increased carnage is an acceptable price to pay in order to save fuel. It will also reduce the emission of CO2, a gas that has never been proven to cause any climate change, but is being cited as a reason for increasing the deaths and injuries anyway.
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http://townhall.com/news/business/2010/04/01/administration_releases_new_fuel_efficiency_rules
Administration releases new fuel efficiency rules
By KEN THOMAS
Thursday, April 01, 2010
The Obama administration set tougher gas mileage standards for new cars and trucks Thursday, spurring the next generation of fuel-sipping gas-electric hybrids, efficient engines and electric cars.
The heads of the Transportation Department and the Environmental Protection Agency signed final rules setting fuel efficiency standards for model years 2012-2016, with a goal of achieving by 2016 the equivalent of 35.5 miles per gallon combined for cars and trucks, an increase of nearly 10 mpg over current standards set by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The EPA set a tailpipe emissions standard of 250 grams (8.75 ounces) of carbon dioxide per mile for vehicles sold in 2016, equal to what would be emitted by vehicles meeting the mileage standard. The EPA issued its first rules ever on vehicle greenhouse gas emissions following a 2007 Supreme Court decision.
"These historic new standards set ambitious, but achievable, fuel economy requirements for the automotive industry that will also encourage new and emerging technologies," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement. "We will be helping American motorists save money at the pump, while putting less pollution in the air."
LaHood and Jackson said the new requirements will save 1.8 billion barrels of oil over the life of the program. The new standards move up goals set in a 2007 energy law, which required the auto industry to meet a 35 mpg average by 2020.
The rules should add costs to new cars and trucks. The government said the requirements would add an estimated $434 per vehicle in the 2012 model year and $926 per vehicle by 2016 but would save more than $3,000 over the life of the vehicle through better gas mileage.
Today new rules went into effect, forcing a 40% increase in corporate fuel ecomony (CAFE) standards in the next six years. Most of this increase will come from either making cars far more complex via hybrid technology (a Prius gets better gas mileage than a like-sized Toyota Yaris, but costs almost twice as much)... or by making cars smaller and lighter. The latter option will be much more economically viable for most car buyers... until a crash occurs.
In a complete reversal from its adherents' screams over "trading blood for oil", the Obama administration is now demanding exactly that.
The direct increases in fatalities and severe injuries, have now been mandated by the Obama administration, which has decided the increased carnage is an acceptable price to pay in order to save fuel. It will also reduce the emission of CO2, a gas that has never been proven to cause any climate change, but is being cited as a reason for increasing the deaths and injuries anyway.
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http://townhall.com/news/business/2010/04/01/administration_releases_new_fuel_efficiency_rules
Administration releases new fuel efficiency rules
By KEN THOMAS
Thursday, April 01, 2010
The Obama administration set tougher gas mileage standards for new cars and trucks Thursday, spurring the next generation of fuel-sipping gas-electric hybrids, efficient engines and electric cars.
The heads of the Transportation Department and the Environmental Protection Agency signed final rules setting fuel efficiency standards for model years 2012-2016, with a goal of achieving by 2016 the equivalent of 35.5 miles per gallon combined for cars and trucks, an increase of nearly 10 mpg over current standards set by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The EPA set a tailpipe emissions standard of 250 grams (8.75 ounces) of carbon dioxide per mile for vehicles sold in 2016, equal to what would be emitted by vehicles meeting the mileage standard. The EPA issued its first rules ever on vehicle greenhouse gas emissions following a 2007 Supreme Court decision.
"These historic new standards set ambitious, but achievable, fuel economy requirements for the automotive industry that will also encourage new and emerging technologies," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said in a statement. "We will be helping American motorists save money at the pump, while putting less pollution in the air."
LaHood and Jackson said the new requirements will save 1.8 billion barrels of oil over the life of the program. The new standards move up goals set in a 2007 energy law, which required the auto industry to meet a 35 mpg average by 2020.
The rules should add costs to new cars and trucks. The government said the requirements would add an estimated $434 per vehicle in the 2012 model year and $926 per vehicle by 2016 but would save more than $3,000 over the life of the vehicle through better gas mileage.