Automotive Lobbying Group Says EPA Has No Clue What New Standards Will Cost And That California Has Too Much Control

U.S. regulators have underestimated the cost and difficulty of achieving their vehicle fuel-economy and greenhouse-gas targets for 2025 and are giving California too much power to shape the country’s policies on those issues, an automaker group said. 

Even with the current government estimate of $1,800 a vehicle in added costs, “the payback period for alternative technologies extends beyond the timeframe most consumers consider; it is likely to remain that way,” the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers said in a report posted on its website Monday. Members of the Washington-based lobbying group include General Motors, Ford Motor Co., Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Toyota Motor Corp. and Volkswagen AG.

MDarringer - 6/29/2016 3:38:50 PM

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AMEN! California is a cesspool of liberal idiots that think all you have to do to improve fuel economy is to come up with a number and make it a law. CAFE is pretty good as it is. It does not need to be increased radically. The EPA is run by bureaucrats not people who engineer cars.

The basic premise behind MPG standards in the first place is to force people to use less gasoline. How about we let people use all the gasoline they want so long as they don't complain about the price?

It's time to deregulate MPG.

USNA1999 - 6/29/2016 4:48:48 PM

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Exactly!

MDarringer - 6/29/2016 5:53:37 PM

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@USNA1999 of course the dimwit that minused us is obviously a Sacramento, Bernie Sanders, libtard.