President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) imposed a new set of ambitious fuel efficiency regulations, reversing a rule set by former President Donald Trump and setting the stage to put more electric cars on the road.
The new EPA regulations require all new cars and light-duty vehicles to achieve an average fuel efficiency standard of 40 miles per gallon. This is a slight increase from the 38 miles per gallon standard the EPA suggested in its original proposal and an increase of 8 miles per gallon from the rule imposed by former President Trump’s EPA in 2020.
“Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing the most ambitious federal greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for passenger cars and light trucks ever,” The EPA wrote in a press release announcing the rules. “The final standards, for Model Years (MY) 2023 through 2026, leverage advances in clean car technology to unlock $190 billion in net benefits to Americans, including reducing climate pollution, improving public health, and saving drivers money at the pump.”
“EPA is planning to initiate a separate rulemaking to establish multi-pollutant emission standards under the Clean Air Act for MY 2027 and later that will speed the transition of the light-duty vehicle fleet toward a zero-emissions future consistent with President Biden’s Executive Order, ‘Strengthening American Leadership in Clean Cars and Trucks.’”
The EPA also makes clear that the standards are meant to increase the number of electric cars on the road in the coming years. “EPA’s analysis shows manufacturers can comply with the final standards with modest increases in the numbers of electric vehicles entering the fleet. By MY 2026, EPA projects that the final standards can be met with sales of about 17 percent electric vehicles (EVs), and wider uptake of advanced gasoline engine and vehicle technologies available today,” the press release said.
Interesting how they focus on everything the consumer needs to be inconvenienced by while spraying our skies, daily.
We will never be at zero and a simple volcano eruption can wipe out years of decreased emissions.
Are trains and air planes going to be outlawed?
Its a fraud and a money grab at the populations expense.
Ruining America with his > SET BACK AMERICA BETTER PLAN !!!!
Need a ZERO Democrat emissions PLan !!!!! OUST them ALL from GOVT !!!!!!
What about private jets and limousines? Biden needs to remove paying for CARBON CREDITS and allow the rich to not alter their way of living. DEMOCRATS are always finding ways to punish the MIDDLE and LOWER income instead of the MILLIONAIRES / BILLIONARES who can afford it.
FJB
Next thing this resident will mandate that all vehicles get the jab twice a year.
Making Vehicles UN-AFFORDABLE !!!!!