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Trumps got to keep those angry older white guys driving lifted blacked out trucks with a sticker of a little kid peeing on something happy.
"I want to destroy the world quicker because think of all the shareholder value we can create along the way"
Its really fucked up man. I'm not a communist at all but I start to understand why people would want to go the complete opposite way of this system.
Its basically "I don't give a fuck how many people die or even if we destroy the entire world in the process I just want to generate more money for the people at the 'top'" and its really sad.
There's absolutely no reason to do this, other than generate more money at the expense of the citizens and the entire planet.
Fuel efficiency—the measurement for getting more mileage out of the same amount of gasoline. Congratulations, MAGA voters, you played yourself! When you pick up that new pile of trash made by Ford or Stellantis (and I know you will because they're AMERICAN* cars), I hope you enjoy the higher gas expenses that you voted for.
* With the extra irony being that many of those "American" brands are owned by Stellantis, which isn't even headquartered anywhere in North America.
They already played themselves by picking the 'American' vehicles. They are all trash and hard to work on.
The Japanese ones are really the only ones built for longevity and ease of maintenance.
This is what you voted for protest-non-voters.
But Genocide Joe or some shit
Yeah, but car makers will still adhere to the intentional standard, since the intentional market is what they can profit from the most
Depends. I don't think we are exporting a whole lot of SUVs and pickups...especially big body-on-frame SUVs.
CAFE standards already killed the small/midsize car market. Automakers have all their chips in the SUV/CUV segment, because they are in the same category as giant trucks, and thus they improve the average fuel economy.
That, combined with the fact that Trump doesn't do anything for the heck of it. Somebody is gaining (or at least planning to gain) from this (besides him)...makes me think that this will have significant negative impacts for the environment.
I'm not sure there are many body on frame SUVs left.
And the "same category as trucks" has more to do with safety standards. Fuel economy has to do with wheelbase; the way the math works out, it's easier to build a less fuel efficient massive vehicle than a more fuel efficient small one.
Unfortunately, the EU is about to partly cave on that* for lesser tariffs. I can't believe this is happening.
* at least security in SUVs; not sure about emissions. Hopefully not, but the agreement does not specify.
This is for the average across the fleet.
National standards might change, but I’m betting California and some other states will still hold car manufacturers to a higher standard.
Reasonable, but this shit still fucking pisses me off
Just another horrible thing in a long line of horrible things both Trump admins have done. Wrt climate action, leaving the Paris Agreement was the big one. After that, this - perversely - feels like par for the course.
Cafe standards
Not familiar with that turn of phrase ... oh, it's another acronym: CAFE