The better mileage that American cars get, the higher the price of gas goes to make up for the loss of volume.With the price of gas now, why wait? By then, gas will be $15 a gallon.
You'll drive it and you'll like it!!!!
Government is enabling it.
Can you imagine the Wright brothers trying to build a plane with all these stupid agencies we have to contend with today? LOL! Good luck with that.
This law needs to mandate that the Presidential limousine and every other vehicles used to transport our government officials MUST get 54 mpg too.
I'm sick of these hypocrites mandating one standard for us, and exempting themselves from it.
The better mileage that American cars get, the higher the price of gas goes to make up for the loss of volume.
When I was a teenager the average cars got 8-13 MPG.
Gas was $.48 a gallon.
Todays cars get anywhere from 22-42 MPG.
Gas is $3.65 a gallon.
The Oil Companies are going to keep the same, or higher, profit margin regardless of the mileage rates.
They will raise the price every time the mileage rates go up.
That's been their Operating Plan since day one.
Thanks!The better mileage that American cars get, the higher the price of gas goes to make up for the loss of volume.
When I was a teenager the average cars got 8-13 MPG.
Gas was $.48 a gallon.
Todays cars get anywhere from 22-42 MPG.
Gas is $3.65 a gallon.
The Oil Companies are going to keep the same, or higher, profit margin regardless of the mileage rates.
They will raise the price every time the mileage rates go up.
That's been their Operating Plan since day one.
I think the last time gas was $.48 a gallon, people were driving the FORD MODEL TThe better mileage that American cars get, the higher the price of gas goes to make up for the loss of volume.
When I was a teenager the average cars got 8-13 MPG.
Gas was $.48 a gallon.
Todays cars get anywhere from 22-42 MPG.
Gas is $3.65 a gallon.
The Oil Companies are going to keep the same, or higher, profit margin regardless of the mileage rates.
They will raise the price every time the mileage rates go up.
That's been their Operating Plan since day one.
I think the last time gas was $.48 a gallon, people were driving the FORD MODEL T
There is one very simple reason that old cars get better fuel economy. Weight is one reason, but NOx emissions is the biggy.
When you run hot and lean, and get great fuel economy, you make a LOT of NOx emissions.
The 2011 NOx requirements are .07 g/mi for what the EPA calls "light duty" vehicles.
In 1984 the Cali requirement was 1.2 g/mi.
The projected requirements are lower, I'm sure.
What that means is that you have to burn your gasoline cooler at lower pressures. That reduces fuel economy and efficiency.
Barack Hussein will be long gone by then (with any luck, he'll still be in a federal prison by then) and the GOP will hopefully have eliminated the EPA, DOE, and repealed this nonsense.
I wouldn't get too worked up over it.