New Vehicles Must Get 49 Miles a Gallon by 2026, Biden Administration Says

This is insane socialist Big Government central planning! Unconstitutional like other, similar existing regulations!

Big Government is forcing automakers to produce more electric vehicles to meet these new regulations!
Based on what? The Global Warming Hoax/Climate Change Religion!
Who is going to pay the price for that? Low to middle income consumers!

"Regulators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Friday set higher fuel-economy standards for new passenger cars and light trucks. 

The administration set 49 miles a gallon as the new mileage standard for light trucks and passenger cars in the U.S. beginning in model year 2026, a 10% increase in fleetwide fuel efficiency on average compared with model year 2021. The current fleetwide mileage standard for model year 2021 is 40 mpg. ..."

"The number of miles a gallon new vehicles must get by 2026 under new National Highway Traffic Safety Administration standards, or 33% more compared with 2021 vehicles. The new level is similar to one the EPA set in December."

New Vehicles Must Get 49 Miles a Gallon by 2026, Biden Administration Says - WSJ Transportation Department tightens fuel standards for new vehicles, in line with EPA guidance

U.S. CAFE Standards Are Utterly Unconstitutional

Posted: 8/6/2018

Introduction

I had planned for some time to write a blog post about CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy), but never got around to write it.

It has been absolutely shocking that the elected representatives of the beacon of freedom and individual liberty could have ever passed such an unconstitutional monstrosity of a law in 1975 and never since then bothered to repealed it. According to the Wikipedia article about CAFE (source no. 2), this law was never even seriously challenged in courts. Further, this law set a horrible precedent for the entire world.

Trigger

Just read this Cato Institute article: Trump’s Proposed CAFE Standard. Some salient quotes from this article (emphasis added):

1. “... when Congress created the CAFE program in 1975, it specially forbade states from adopting their own stronger rules because this would greatly increase the costs of compliance to manufacturers. Despite that, the Obama administration decided to exempt California from the one-national-standard rule. The Trump administration is going back to the actual law.”
   (What a lousy, business adverse president Obama was, this is another example)
2. “Another important issue is that the CAFE program has suffered mission creep. When Congress created the program in 1975, the nation was suffering from politically induced energy shortages. But the standards weren’t needed to save energy; people responded to higher gas prices by buying more fuel-efficient cars without the government standards.”
   (Mission creep? What a misguided euphemism!)

Brevity Is The Soul Of Wit

CAFE is pure, grandiose socialist central planning; simply and utterly unconstitutional, and should be repealed ASAP!

Sources:

1. https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/corporate-average-fuel-economy
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy