NHTSA study could pave way for final CAFE rules by mid-November
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released its 1,000-page environmental impact study on new fuel economy rules and the final form of those rules could be in place by the middle of next month. When NHTSA announced a draft of the new CAFE regulations last spring, it drew criticism from all sides. The rules went beyond what was mandated by Congress last December, but also contained some very controversial elements. The requirements would be based on the vehicle's footprint (the area between the wheels), meaning that vehicles with a larger wheelbase or track would have a lower standard to meet. The study indicates that the new regulations will save 19.5 billion gallons of fuel through the end of the next decade. However it also indicates a very small impact on the environment over the next century. The expected change in sea level is only expected to be reduced by 0.11 cm and the temperature is only expected to be cut by 0.013 degrees celcius. Nonetheless, automakers are not happy with the rules because of the inconsistencies. Still, proposals from the initial draft seem unlikely to be significantly changed. At this point, there is a 30-day comment period before the new corporate average fuel economy rules are finalized.
[Source: Detroit News]
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gorr 5:19PM (10/14/2008)
Don't trust them, they are part of the ones that removed freight train off the tracks to replace them with trucks on the roads.10x times the diesel sold.
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Mike!!ekiM 6:10PM (10/14/2008)
- Not Nearly Enough.
- Just shows Capitalism has got No Mechanism to address the Survival Needs of the Human Population. Once the system starts to make money, there's no turning back, even to the DEATH of buyers, workers, owners, CEO's and CEO's children.
Just look at the Mortgage Market, once it was set up to be able to Write Mortgages and then Sell CDO's to Insure Mortgages, a SELL-to-the-Death-of-the-System was started.
Who should be in charge of the Planet's Safety, the safety of our Population? The Business Community or the Citizen?
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Diffrunt 7:42PM (10/14/2008)
Possession of common sense makes one inelgible for govt employment
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