Cleaner Cars, a Safer Planet - NYTimes.com
Taken together, the two sets of rules would increase fuel efficiency from today’s average of about 29 miles per gallon to 54.5 miles per gallon when they are fully effective in 2025.
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Pixie dust is the only safe fuel in the world. It allows enviro-fascists to proclaim their desire for human development while actually arresting it.
""Why not just increase the government-mandated fuel efficiency of all U.S. vehicles to eleventy-zillion miles per gallon, so we can run all of our vehicles forever on gas siphoned out of the outdated cars currently sitting in our garages?""
I like your blog, but the above isn't really an argument.
Do you have any evidence that this mandate is impossible, or will somehow harm the economy or the nation?
Anonymous, your comment is too sensible. I drive a Lexus CT200h and get 51.4 m.p.g. It's comfortable and has all the amenities, so much so that my brother, who currently drives an Audi A5 Cabriolet is looking at getting one. Surely it's not impossible to achieve a 10% gain in this time frame.
The whining of "we can't do it, it's too hard, I don't want to" is sad. I'm philosophically a free market libertarian, but the market's signalling system is broken when people think it doesn't matter how much oil is used, there will always be plenty.
King of the Road, I hear what you're saying, but if conservation of the earth's oil is your rationale for higher MPGs, please consider the well-known Jevons Paradox in which the more efficiently a fuel source is used, the more of that fuel source we use. Economist William Stanley Jevons observed this paradox in 1865 regarding coal, but it still applies today with petroleum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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