http://autoweek.com/article/car-news/bu ... dailydrive
Holy shit.
C/D had a good sidebar article about peak engine that talks to the fact that shit has gotten way complicated way too fast and if these regs continue, it'll just expressly drive everything (perhaps prematurely and against the best needs of the consumer) to the electric car.
The point is, maybe our power era is not going to come to a screeching halt. Thank god.
Now 54.5 mpg CAFE target is off the table
Re: Now 54.5 mpg CAFE target is off the table
One simple, easy and highly unpopular way to drive more efficiency into new vehicles is to increase the federal gas tax. Forget about all the loopholes and nonsense, just increase the existing tax and people will start buying more efficient vehicles. The federal gas tax seems to be politically untouchable since it hasn't been increased in over 20 years. Also, the fact that it is fixed at 18.4 cents a gallon and not a percentage means that when adjusted for inflation it is actually significantly lower today than it was in 1993.
Re: Now 54.5 mpg CAFE target is off the table
Best news ever.
Should have been obvious that this wasn't going to work by itself. The best thing that happened to fuel mileage averages was $100+/barrel of crude in the recent past.
Should have been obvious that this wasn't going to work by itself. The best thing that happened to fuel mileage averages was $100+/barrel of crude in the recent past.
Re: Now 54.5 mpg CAFE target is off the table
http://www.motortrend.com/news/trump-ca ... standards/
Overall I still err on the side of CAFE is stupid, and broken. And while we may look at CAFE as bringing us a new era of fuel economy, I say the free market may have done more or less the same thing. We don't have the data.
We don't regulate how much power cars can have. Why should we regulate the fuel economy? The "protecting people from themselves" argument is a very slippery slope that has no real teeth imo.
Should we regulate how much alcohol people can buy because some people abuse it? What about food? Should we make credit cards illegal because some people end up in a lot of debt? When you try to regulate common sense, there is always an unintended consequence.
Personal responsibility. Personal freedom. I believe in these things.
Overall I still err on the side of CAFE is stupid, and broken. And while we may look at CAFE as bringing us a new era of fuel economy, I say the free market may have done more or less the same thing. We don't have the data.
We don't regulate how much power cars can have. Why should we regulate the fuel economy? The "protecting people from themselves" argument is a very slippery slope that has no real teeth imo.
Should we regulate how much alcohol people can buy because some people abuse it? What about food? Should we make credit cards illegal because some people end up in a lot of debt? When you try to regulate common sense, there is always an unintended consequence.
Personal responsibility. Personal freedom. I believe in these things.