This isn’t likely to change anything in the market. Auto manufacturers have invested shitloads into meeting those standards and they’re not going to retroactively change their already-designed powerplants over rules that will probably change again in 6 months.
Also it won’t matter anyway since automakers realized they can just upsell everyone into “luxury” light trucks in the US and fuel economy standards don’t matter to those anyway.
Also, even if it was guaranteed there would be no fuel economy standards ever again, manufacturers understand that many consumers want better fuel economy, because people don’t like paying for gas. Getting better MPGs than competing models from other brands can be a big selling point for your car.
Exactly! It’s like trump trying to go after wind and solar too- those are already cheaper and desired by the market, so the market is going to prefer them. there’s nothing you can do to slow down adoption short of banning it outright.
You would think that. But here in the city of Springfield Illinois. Our power is coal.
And trump reduced regulations.
And guess what. They just stopped doing the extra filter/cleaning/scrubbing (whatever it’s called ) because they don’t have to. Even though the infrastructure for it all is already installed.
This was brought up at a town meeting a while back.
It still is cheaper to not do it. So they won’t. Even though it’s already all set up.
This isn’t likely to change anything in the market. Auto manufacturers have invested shitloads into meeting those standards and they’re not going to retroactively change their already-designed powerplants over rules that will probably change again in 6 months.
Also it won’t matter anyway since automakers realized they can just upsell everyone into “luxury” light trucks in the US and fuel economy standards don’t matter to those anyway.
Also, even if it was guaranteed there would be no fuel economy standards ever again, manufacturers understand that many consumers want better fuel economy, because people don’t like paying for gas. Getting better MPGs than competing models from other brands can be a big selling point for your car.
Also, this makes any company that caves to this less competitive in every other country.
Also I doubt consumers with increasing gas prices are going to be happy with less efficient cars.
Exactly! It’s like trump trying to go after wind and solar too- those are already cheaper and desired by the market, so the market is going to prefer them. there’s nothing you can do to slow down adoption short of banning it outright.
Yeah totally everything happening now is just a final cash grab from a way of doing things that is doomed to the dust bin.
Sustainable energy tech is on the rise and will continue to get cheaper, fossil fuels cannot compete with this in the long run.
You would think that. But here in the city of Springfield Illinois. Our power is coal. And trump reduced regulations.
And guess what. They just stopped doing the extra filter/cleaning/scrubbing (whatever it’s called ) because they don’t have to. Even though the infrastructure for it all is already installed.
This was brought up at a town meeting a while back.
It still is cheaper to not do it. So they won’t. Even though it’s already all set up.