Natural Resources Defense Council Claims $68 Billion Annual Savings When US Cars Get 54.5 MPG Standard: Raise CAFE Standards?

No reqirement.

If you got a car that gets 1,000,000 miles to the gallon, gas will cost 10,000 a gallon. Increasing fuel standards to "save money" will not get the Sheiks to hock their golden toilets at the pawn shop.

.....HOW MANY "CARS" WILL "THE FAMILY" NEED FOR TRANSPORT TO DESTINATIONS?

Depending on which study you choose, the total number of deaths caused by this government madate ranges from 41,600 to 124,800 and those are old numbers.

Not to mention the added expense for auto companies and consumers.

"According to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimate, implementing the change cost American consumers over $6.71 billion in added vehicle expenses from 2007-2011. Yet the fuel savings was a mere 0.44 billion gallons of gasoline annually."

What's next 100 MPG standard. Any time government gets involved with anything it's half as efficient and cost twice as much as if it came from the private sector.

We could save a lot more if we got all the bad drivers off the road and forced them onto public transportation.

Don

Great- just never take the kids grocery shopping with you- someone/thing will not make it home

maybe we should all just get a moped

Not by Government fiat!

There are two major problems with the government forcing the issue, first is the cost of fuel will go up to match the fuel saved so the annual saving line is just a line. The truth is it will cost more since as the price of fuel increases the cost of consumer goods increases, thus the high cafe standards will have a net negative on dollar savings.
Second when technology is pushed by an outside source that isn't the consumer quality suffers, consumers will likely see fuel efficient cars that are not comfortable or reliable. Eventually the technology will catch up meeting both the demand of the consumer and the demand for efficiency. But the interim will be some unfortunate years for the US auto consumer.
Just my $0.02.

Just remember that as MPH increases the price of gas will increase.

The more we conserve the natural resources we have the better off our future will be IF we can keep them from being exported out of North America

It's a no-brainer. If you don't understand why, you won't understand the explanation.

Smaller lighter cars cause more DEATHS!

Airbags and seat belts are far more important than driving around a lot of excess vehicle weight.

It is a fact that it causes more deaths, with or without seatbelts.

remember that next time a semi is headed at you

if you want oil- drill here

If you are afraid of CO2, put down the Coke, Pepsi, Bud and Mich

I'm still waiting for the explanation why saving gas is more important than saving lives.

Just wave the wand and say 500 mpg and be done with it

CAFE standards should continue to increase as technology advances.

Meanwhile, the government mandate drives up the cost and leads to more deaths.



Obama wants green energy too, but the technology is not there yet, so he squanders away hundred of billions of our money into failed cronie companies.

Government safety standards have saved untold numbers of lives: just requiring seatbelts have saved millions.

Yes, Obama wants government investment to commercialize green energy. That contrasts with Bush and the Republicans, who refused to invest in the commercialization of Li-ion car batteries, and now we're paying the price: Japan, South Korea, and China control over 90% of the market, with the US having only a measly 2%.

Its obvious from the marketplace: unless US companies get government support, they can't compete with Asian competitors who get massive government subsidies.

I'm not talking about seat belts, you are.
The government is disregarding the safety of automobiles by enforcing CAFE standards, which has lead to the deaths of tens of thousands.

The Natural Resource Defense Council will say anything to slow or halt technological change. If it will move us closer to living in caves and scrounging for our next meal, they are for it.

I get why people would be a little upset about raising standards, but as upset as most people here are, I think they're ignoring the benefits and simply upset at the idea of having to DO something, let alone anything.

Think of the money that could be saved if we raised the standard to 200 MPG. We could pay off the national debt in a couple of years.

And how many of us can afford the Chevy Dolt at ca. $33K a pop and 40 mpr (Miles per Recharge). Yeah, I want one, NOW! This is such BS. All it will do is make cars luxury items for the ruling class. We won't be able to have horse and buggies because of bio-emissions, so us serfs will be riding bikes or walking. If the environmentalists had their druthers, the human race would be eradicated and the world left to the animals.

You understand them better than they like.

MIERDA DE PERRO!

What kind of power does a 54.5 MPG car get? I've been delivering phone books the last few days. They can weigh thousands of pounds when your vehicle is fully loaded.

Two seats and if you want two people they had both better weigh under 120 pounds

Mandating 100 MPG doesn't make it happen. CAFE Standards have exceeded what is possible.

Pipe dreams are so much fun, eh? If gas was free, we'd save even more. If cars flew and used no fuel, we'd save tons of money. But to achieve 54.5 mpg, we'd all have to drive Chevy Dolts... and turn them in for another whenever and wherever they ran out of juice to drive another honor-system fleet car... hopefully reaching our destination someday.

where's all these Electric cars Obama spent our money on? oh and how can we charge them up since the solar panel complanies he spend out money on went belly up... and how are we going to have enough electricity at all with the forcing of coal power plants being closed? hmmmm seems funny that we can't have anything... 4th reich perhaps?

Having a car that gets 54 MPG is nice but not everyone can afford twenty to fifty thousand for a new car! I damn sure can't and both my vehicles are paid for.

May my v8 pickup survive for the rest of my years

There's no real way to calculate the savings...

They say it will take 30 years to reap enough savings to pay for a new electric car, but that's not counting having to replace the battery!

"They" say a lot of crap.
Electric cars are a lie, in addition to actually leaving a bigger carbon footprint than a '57 Chevy, they have an additional anti humanitarian aspect about them that no one talks about.