Quote (ofthevoid @ Mar 5 2017 02:19pm)
Your questions make no sense. No one is forcing you to buy the less efficient vehicles nor does the rolling back of the regulation mean that car producers will discontinue the manufacture or low emission/low gas vehicles. Neither does this mean that the niche market for efficient cars is suddenly going to go up in vapor just because the EPA took out some minimum standard. If anything,EPA rollbacks are going to make extraction of those natural resources cheaper and increase the supply of cheap oil/gas.
You're essentially blaming the EPA rollback for someone buying a high mpg car... :huh: It's the consumers responsibility to choose what kind of car they prefer. If someone is stupid enough to buy a gas guzzler expecting 40 mpg that's their own fault.
government enforcing greater fuel efficiency standards helps make more efficient cars available to the masses
considering that both car manufacturers and the oil industry in particular are the largest opponents of such regulations it's safe to say we're all more likely to be driving gas guzzlers if there weren't such regulations in place to push automakers to make more fuel efficient vehicles
the epa rollback means less cars with greater fuel efficiency will be available to consumers down the road
i can't quite make sense of the bolded
there's quite a bit of history behind this
http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/fuel-efficiency/fuel-economy-basics.html#.WLxrYzvyuHsQuote
Congress first established Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in 1975, largely in response to the 1973 oil embargo. CAFE standards set the average new vehicle fuel economy, as weighted by sales, that a manufacturer's fleet must achieve.
Through the Energy Policy and Conservation Act of 1975, Congress established fuel economy standards for new passenger cars starting with model year (MY) 1978. These standards were intended to roughly double the average fuel economy of the new car fleet to 27.5 mpg by model year (MY) 1985.
Additionally, the Department of Transportation set the first round of CAFE standards for light trucks (i.e., pickups, minivans, and SUVs) beginning with MY 1978. CAFE standards for light trucks were increased to 22.2 mpg for MY 2007 and scheduled to increase further. No similar increases were made for passenger cars until until 2007, when historic energy legislation was passed by Congress and signed by the President. This new energy legislation, the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, raised the fuel economy standards of America's cars, light trucks, and SUVs to a combined average of at least 35 miles per gallon by 2020—a 10 mpg increase over 2007 levels—and required standards to be met at maximum feasible levels through 2030.
Federal law directing increases in fuel economy became necessary because oil consumption had been steadily escalating, in large part due to the relative stagnation in CAFE standards, the doubling of annual vehicle miles traveled in the previous 25 years, and a sizable increase in the market share of less efficient SUVs and light trucks.
This post was edited by duffman316 on Mar 5 2017 02:00pm