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Carmakers say new fuel economy regulations are unattainable. BS!

The latest draft of the fuel economy regulations has been released and it would require carmakers to raise their fleet averages to 28.5mpg by 2015 and 35mpg by 2020. After that the target would continue to rise by four percent a year. That last part may be a bit unreasonable, or not depending on how you factor in electrically driven vehicles. According to Gloria Bergquist, a spokeswoman for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers: "Basically, it is unattainable up until 2020 and unattainable afterward." This is ridiculous. It is utterly ... Read more →

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