Driving Us Crazy
The administration is proposing regulations that will require new American cars and trucks to attain an average of as much as 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025, roughly double the current level. That would require increases in fuel efficiency of nearly 5 percent a year from 2017 to 2025. The standard would put domestic vehicle fuel efficiency on a par with that in Europe, China and Japan, saving consumers billions of dollars at the pump and creating for the first time a truly global automobile market.
A classic case today of the inherent bias (and dishonesty) of The New York Times. Allow RedStateVT to explain. Reading above one would think that the U.S. auto industry (of which we are no great fan, by the way) was technologically inferior. Why is fuel efficiency so much higher elsewhere? Simple answer: exorbitantly high gas which forces people to buy econo-box micro cars. Who hasn't heard the stories of the French father packing up his wife, children, mistress and illegitimate children in their four-seater and heading to the south of France for their 12 week summer vacation? This is the world that The New York Times longs for. In their words, a "truly global" world. In the U.S., Dad packs the wife and kids up in a safe SUV and heads to the beach for two weeks.
Some good news, though. Finally some news on the solar-powered car:
Car companies could receive credit for using low-polluting air-conditioner refrigerants, building cars that can run mainly on biofuels, putting solar panels on cars to provide cooling power and other technological gimmicks. (NYT, 7/4/2011)
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