2009-01-25

Fuel economy standards may be going up soon

President Obama is planning to reverse another Bush administration policy.  This policy prevented California from adopting more strict fuel standards than the federal government.  Since California (and other states that pledged to follow it) represent a huge chunk of the American economy, they would effectively dictate the fuel economy standards.  And this is definitely not a bad thing, since Detroit automakers have been pumping out low MPG cars for many years.  This would simply hasten the progress toward 35 MPG fleet-wide.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Fuel efficiency is important and needs to be the best. If Detroit won't do it, someone else must.