New 54.5 MPG Mileage Standard To Be Based On Non Relevant Testing Procedures

As long as the test hasn't changed it'll be an improvement. Will people actually achieve the numbers on the window? Nope...but they don't get the numbers on the window now. As long as the numbers are relatively better....

Here is a chart that shows the actual EPA sticker figures that will need to be achieved by year. There is improvement but most of it comes from forcing cars to achieve significantly higher fuel economy while allowing pickups to improve fuel economy only slightly. Not a very equitable system, which is the biggest downfall of the new CAFE.

Not exactly. Over the course of the new CAFE program (2012-2025) pickups have to improve their fuel economy by 35%, all other vehicles have to improve their fuel economy by 60%. I can see how having different standards for different vehicles would be reasonable (the example you gave), but I don't see how preferential treatment for improvement is reasonable. You are right that there are more passenger vehicles than true work trucks but pickups and SUVs still make up about half of all vehicles sold with a majority used as passenger vehicles and not work vehicles.

the epa is out of control and just a bureaucracy that is creating havoc . house built before 1973 cant even paint their own house without doing a whole bunch of crap first. all these regulations to paint it. you cant use this lightbulb you have to use that one (which has poisonous mercury in it)and if it breaks there is a 15 min process to throw it out. oh almost forgot you cant throw it out it has to be disposed of properly and they havnt figured that out yet. they can now regulate a puddle of water in your backyard if they really want to. Finally all the data is manipulated to have the outcome the epa government or the world wants. MONEY makes the world go round as we all know. cafe standards will cost each one of us more money to buy a car. I mean look at the global warming scam and how the data is fake manipulated and read the way the people funding the research wants it to read.