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US to announce sharply lower vehicle fuel economy requirements (www.reuters.com)
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[–] Allero@lemmy.today 13 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

US be like:

-Let's build our entire economy around massive trucks for everyone!

oil depletes

surprised Pikachu face

-Sir, could we maybe scale down on gas-guzzling monstrosities?

-NO. We just need more oil!

wars all over the world, massive oil conflicts with huge civilian casualties

-Sir...

global military control on oil supply, attempts to artificially increase oil prices to make shale profitable

abducting an acting president

-Sir!..

-I SAID MORE DAMN TRUCKS!

Like, it is basically undermining strategic security of the country with the added benefit of razing an entire planet. Is oil business so lucrative to justify both? Or do, you know, certain people pile up money at the expense of everyone else?

[–] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

And here I am hoping they are finally killing the fuel economy requirement that killed small trucks.

From the article, it doesn't sound like that is the case, though.

[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 13 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Thus making their vehicles even more difficult to sell outside their own country.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 15 points 11 hours ago

No one takes US vehicles seriously outside the US anyway. They don't even fit on most roads.

[–] Nightsoul@lemmy.world 10 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Who's even going to buy a NEW gas guzzling car in this economy ?

[–] AstralPath@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Men whose entire identity is tied with what truck they drive. Its absolutely insane how pervasive this shit is.

A friend of mine is has super restricted finances because he has a kid and a truck. He wants a house but can't afford it because his truck costs him almost $1k/month. I've hinted that he should ditch the truck but he just can't bring himself to do it. Everyone at work drives big trucks so he feels like he has to as well to fit in.

It's completely fucked.

[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Why are you friends with a complete and utter moron?

[–] Alexfire@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

It is sad and unhealthy financially and emotionally, this conditional belonging all life long, afraid to do what they want or makes sense financially, how to not have courage and integrity with this one weird trick!

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 5 points 11 hours ago

Republican fools.

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 5 points 13 hours ago

A government for the people.

[–] MidwestSolarpunk@slrpnk.net 52 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (22 children)

Bought a PHEV earlier this year and my “old fashioned” family quickly moved from “that boy ain’t right” to “you get HOW MANY miles per gallon??” And they still can’t compute that I can drive 50 miles on less than $2 of electricity and not a drop of gas.

The numbers make sense, people just need to be shown. It’s where the market is headed, no one should really be considering anything less than hybrid. When my wife’s old Civic dies, it’ll be replaced by a full EV.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 10 points 11 hours ago

hey still can’t compute that I can drive 50 miles on less than $2 of electricity and not a drop of gas.

That sounds suspiciously like math, liburul.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

I hope for my next vehicle to be an EV, but I won't take anything less that 300 miles range. I know that 90% of my driving can be comfortably done in under 200 range, but I do go on longer trips. I know that recharging has come a long way, and I have no problem hanging out for 15+ min at a station, but I won't do it every 2-3 hours because that's all I've got.

I'm hoping to get many more years out of my current ride before it dies or becomes too costly to repair vs replace. That gives ample time for battery tech to further improve, and hopefully more and cheaper EVs to the market.

I'm not a car snob by any means, but currently the only EV that really piques my interest is the ionic 5 n, but it's range is just way too low. I've been driving a WRX for a little over 6 years now, and love pretty much everything about it. I hope to someday have an EV equivalent of it.

[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

On long driving trips it is reccomended to stop every 2-3 hours for 10 minutes anyways so I don't see the stopping to charge as an issue tbh.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

I usually push 4 hours or about 400 miles when I can on longer trips. I rarely drive late nights anymore, so most of that travel takes place during the light if day. It's about 4 hours for me to visit my friends in an adjacent state, and I can do that comfortably now under a single tank of gas. That could result a couple of stops on a lower range EV if I didn't want to push the limits. That's just something I'm not willing to do right now.

Again, I hope that I can get by without purchasing a new vehicle for many years to come. EVs are getting better and battery tech is improving as well. I think the market will probably meet my needs by the time I'm ready to transition.

[–] MidwestSolarpunk@slrpnk.net 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (4 children)

Range anxiety is partially what pushed us to go PHEV. We really only use gas if we leave our immediate area, and on longer trips it’s the same as a full ICE car (just with much better efficiency).

I too hope for better batteries and cheaper EVs before my next purchase! Would love to see Chinese cars in the American market to humble these MSRPs.

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[–] bluemellophone@lemmy.world 34 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

What this article doesn’t mention is that California is such a massive market that their state-specific regulations often dictate the behavior of car manufacturers country-wide. Why?

Nobody wants to buy a car in TX that cannot be bought or sold in CA. No car company wants to sell a CA-only model vs. a 49-other-state model of the same car, so they meet the California standard for the entire product. There is a national ripple effect that causes the federal fuel standards to become functionally redundant.

Good luck getting the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to go along with these changes, let alone the 17 other states that have adopted the same CA-leading standards.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 14 points 22 hours ago

I think part of what they’re trying to do is to declare federal supremacy and scrap CARB standards altogether. And the Tribunal of Six will probably give it to them. Idk why we even bother with courts anymore tbh

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 9 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Gotta burn that oil or daddy Putin won't have money to fight his imperialist war.

[–] orioler25@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Right, of course, for the Russian imperialism, and nothing else, especially nobody else's imperialism, that's for sure.

🇮🇷1 - 🇺🇸0(🤮)

[–] Prairie_Madness@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

What's funny is with the cost of gas spiking I don't think it'll honestly have a huge effect (not saying I agree with rolling this back). People are tired

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[–] stumu415@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)

So instead of promoting more green energy, more EV's and less greenhouse gasses, the US is hurling backwards in every single policy.

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