"Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he is repealing the Biden-era federal fuel economy standards, significantly weakening fuel efficiency requirements for tens of millions of new gasoline-powered cars and light trucks. It marks the US president's latest effort to dismantle pollution regulations and federal support for cleaner-running vehicles and renewable energy. Burning gasoline is a significant contributor to global heating and transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States."
"We are officially terminating Joe Biden's ridiculously burdensome, horrible actually, Cafe standards that imposed expensive restrictions, Trump said in an Oval Office announcement, flanked by top auto executives including the CEOs of Ford and Stellantis. It put tremendous upward pressure on car prices, combined with the insane electric vehicle mandate. The Corporate Average Fuel Economy (Cafe) standards, first established in 1975, set the average fuel economy targets for new vehicles and have been tightened over the years to make vehicles more fuel-efficient."
Donald Trump announced repeal of Biden-era federal fuel economy standards, weakening fuel efficiency requirements for tens of millions of new gasoline-powered cars and light trucks. The repeal reduces required average fuel economy targets, rolling back a Biden-era goal of about 50 miles per gallon for passenger cars and light trucks by 2031 to roughly 34 mpg by 2031 under a new proposal from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The action relaxes regulatory pressure on automakers, weakens tailpipe emissions rules, eliminates fines for noncompliant manufacturers, and signals a broader push to reverse policies promoting electric and cleaner-running vehicles. Transportation remains the largest U.S. source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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