White House Backtracks Once Again - Proposes 54.5 MPG Goal for 2025
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But First Snide's Remarks: The Auto Channel believes that MPG (miles per gallon) will become just another economic factor not a nationl security issue when American drivers can fill-up with green domesticaly produced renewalbe energy products.
Today's discussions and lobbying that has taken our collective eyes off of a meaningful energy policy and has us focused on a bougus argument to limit the increase of mpg, presupposes that Americans will forever use oil-based fuels and that we will need to continue discussing increases in mpg forever.
Why not just eliminate our terrible problem by giving Americans a real option to replace gasoline by mandating that CNG, LPG, AutoGas and every variety of Biofuel that can be made here in America is made available...poof! No more mpg discussions, poof! No more kids dying to protect our OPEC taskmasters (ah so maybe that's the real issue.) And poof... an economic recovery like the world has never seen.
So why not?...you tell me msnide@theautochannel.com.
. Washington DC July 26, 2011; Angela Greiling Keane and David Welch writing for Bloomberg reported that the new fuel-economy target is a reduction from 56.2 mpg sought in a proposal to automakers including Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp., last month.
President Barack Obama’s administration altered its proposal for a 2025 U.S. fuel-economy average to 54.5 miles per gallon to make allowances for light trucks, people familiar with the negotiations said.
General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Group LLC are reaching an agreement with the White House on the framework for the 54.5 mpg rule, three people familiar with the talks said. Automakers are waiting for paperwork later today from the White House to formalize agreements, and the administration may announce a deal by the end of the week, one of the people said. The people declined to be identified because talks are ongoing.
The new fuel-economy target is a reduction from 56.2 mpg sought in a proposal to automakers last month. It may reflect the White House’s desire to reach agreement as soon as possible, the people said. The rule may include credits for some types of technology, said three people with knowledge of the talks, who declined to be identified.
“This seems to be how the game is played -- they put a big fuel economy number out there and then introduce loopholes,” said Jeremy Anwyl, CEO of Edmunds.com, a Santa Monica, California-based website that tracks auto sales and pricing data. “They want to try to keep everyone happy.”
The White House is pressuring automakers to agree to a framework for a rule to be released by Sept. 30, said two people, who asked not to be identified because the negotiations are confidential. The rule is to take effect in 2017