Dear Barack: does your Chrysler 300C get 35.5 MPG?
“[Obama’s] Mandate of 35.5 mpg by 2016 is like fighting obesity by outlawing large clothing”
Car & Driver has a detailed analysis of the Obama plan to utterly destroy America’s auto industry.
Obama’s CAFE Fuel Economy Standards to Create Fleet of Tiny, Expensive Vehicles - The proposed mandate raises CAFE standards about five percent annually from today’s level of 23 mpg for trucks and 27.5 mpg for cars to 30 mpg for trucks and 39 mpg for passenger cars by 2016, for an average of 35.5 mpg overall. This is roughly four years earlier than the already aggressive 35-mpg goalpost established by Congress in 2007…
…Senator after senator cites as evidence for the attainability of these standards the vehicles sold in Europe. But car for car, European vehicles aren’t meaningfully more efficient. Take the Ford Focus sedan…