In the Obama era, Edmunds explained, fuel economy regulations “changed from just a straight average across the board to what’s called a platform-based fuel economy standard. So your fuel economy target for a given vehicle is based on its wheelbase and its tread width, which is the width between the tires left to right. So if you multiply that you find the area of that rectangle and there’s a table that shows what your fuel-economy target is. The bigger the vehicle, the smaller the target.”
https://www.insidehook.com/article/vehicles/why-pickup-trucks-keep-getting-bigger
First they gave us older, gas guzzlers that polluted more but were kept longer because their functionality could not be replaced after manufacturers shifted their fleets to meet new legal requirements. Then, they gave us SUVs to replace the big family station wagons doomed by the CAFE laws.
It is delusion to think this type of regulation is ever going to win for the citizenry.
https://www.insidehook.com/article/vehicles/why-pickup-trucks-keep-getting-bigger
First they gave us older, gas guzzlers that polluted more but were kept longer because their functionality could not be replaced after manufacturers shifted their fleets to meet new legal requirements. Then, they gave us SUVs to replace the big family station wagons doomed by the CAFE laws.
It is delusion to think this type of regulation is ever going to win for the citizenry.
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