It appears as if ambitious new fuel efficiency regulations that would require Americans to adopt many more electric vehicles are to be watered down.
But opposition to the new CAFE standards has been fierce, and now Reuters reports that the White House is backing down and will issue new guidelines with less ambitious goals in the coming weeks.
In fact, the current rules create a perverse incentive to make inefficient gasoline-powered vehicles, since the OEMs know these can easily be offset.
But the Alliance for Automotive Innovation—a lobby group for the auto industry—called the rules “neither reasonable nor achievable” despite claiming not to oppose greenhouse gas emissions standards.
And the United Auto Workers—which endorsed President Biden’s re-election—has claimed the fuel economy regulations would threaten jobs.
In addition to the tougher new fuel economy standards, the auto industry also wants to see the government relax attempts to regulate particulate pollution from gasoline-powered vehicles more strictly.
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