Trump Administration Looking for Ways to Cut Fuel Consumption Regulations

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is working with Donald Trump’s White House administration to determine ways to best cut upcoming fuel regulations. Some of the options currently being thrown around in an effort to make things easier on car manufacturers include things like lowering fleetwide fuel economy averages, giving manufacturers an additional five years to meet standards, and (somehow) getting California to ease up on its own statewide regulations.   President Donald Trump’s administration is looking at ways to reduce future fuel economy standards for automobiles in a move to appease carmakers, who have asked to ease targets put in place under President Barack Obama.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is looking at a range of options to lower future targets, including one that would permit an average fleetwide fuel economy standard of 35.7 miles per gallon by 2026, down from the 46.6 miles per gallon under rules charted by the Obama administration, according to a draft NHTSA analysis obtained by Bloomberg News. Continue Reading Here

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