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[Reason Magazine - Topics > Government Spending] Now, California and 13 other states, representing about 50 percent of the U.S. automobile market, want to force carmakers to meet the 35.7 mpg standard by 2016, rising to 42.5 mpg in 2020. Proponents argue that the higher mileage standard is needed to both cut the emissions of greenhouse gases that are contributing to man-made global warming and to reduce our dependence on foreign oil.

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[Gas 2.0] California Gets the Green Light to Regulate New Car Mileage : Gas 2.0: The new goals of California are to push up the CAFE standards of 35 MPG in 2020 to 35 MPG in 2016 for all vehicles sold in the state. It is the same standard, just moved up four years, which is not a big difference, but it sets the precedent for states to have control.

[Michigan Messenger] Michigan Messenger » Cox files brief in auto mileage standards lawsuit: According to the press release from the AG’s office, current federal standards require that the automakers reach a mileage standard of 35 mpg by the year 2020. California’s standards would push that to 49 mpg by 2020, which is a far more difficult standard to meet.

[The Truth About Cars] Editorial: Obama Lets California Determine National Fuel Economy ...: There’s no way automakers selling cars in America can meet the California mob’s higher, fleet-wide fuel economy standards within the deadline without chopping low-mileage models from their lineup within the relevant states. (The fuel-sucking CUV halfway house, for example, just became an evolutionary dead end.) Detroit News columnist Daniel Howes described the CA mandate as the involuntary hybridization of the nation’s fleet.

[Autoblog] California pushing new administration for its own stricter ...: While the "easy" (if cost-intensive) solution may be to make all models meet California emissions, the bigger issue is the mileage requirement. There's already a tough new Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard coming up which is likely to be a challenge to meet in the allotted time, let alone containing what it will cost without sending MSRPs skyward.

[HybridCars.com] Obama: Let California Regulate Greenhouse Gases | Hybrid Cars: While the Supreme Court said greenhouse gases like CO2 can legitimately be regulated as exhaust emissions, automakers argue that California’s limits are de facto regulation of fuel economy””which can only be set by national CAFE laws. Indeed, traditional pollutants like carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, and hydrocarbons are reduced by exhaust treatment, but CO2 is almost directly proportional to petroleum burned””although the use of biofuels can break that relationship.

[Wheels] Obama Vows to Follow California’s Lead in Cutting Emissions ...: And, we all really know that the point is that the group of California and the other states (mostly on the Eastern seaboard) participating in this will force ALL manufacturers to move to the strict standards. We probably won’t have the situation we had in the early 1970’s, when there were ‘49-state cars’

[Environmental Law Prof Blog] Environmental Law Prof Blog: Obama directs reconsideration of ...: President Obama announced today that he had directed EPA to reconsider California's waiver application under Title II of the Clean Air Act, which allows it to set stricter limits on greenhouse-gas emissions from cars and trucks. If the California waiver is granted, 13 other states have already adopted the California standards and will be allowed to implement those standards.

[Michigan Messenger] Michigan Messenger » Automakers critical of tighter emission ...: Supporters of tighter emission rules say the business plans are evidence that the automakers would be able to comply with California’s proposed changes, which call for a 30 percent reduction in vehicle emissions by 2016. In light of the sinking economy, they add, the move to more fuel-efficient vehicles might also help them sell more cars.

[LewRockwell.com Blog] LewRockwell.com Blog: More State Worship from the "Newspaper of ...: These standards would eventually require fuel-efficiency increases in the American car and light-truck fleet to roughly 35 miles per gallon by 2020 from the current average of 27 m.p.g. The California standards would require automakers to reach the same 35 m.p.g.

[Climate Progress] Climate Progress » Blog Archive » Obama to push for California ...: The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers has long opposed California’s request, arguing it would force car makers to boost efficiency substantially above levels already established in federal law. Auto dealers last week also complained that it would not make sense to grant California’s request while the federal government is in the middle of extending billions in loans to keep General Motors Corp.

[Switchboard, from NRDC] Switchboard, from NRDC ”º Dave Hawkins's Blog ”º Cleaner Cars are on ...: Court after court shot down the auto company lawyers' claims but the Bush Administration threw yet another roadblock in the path of the cleaner cars that California and at least 13 other states were trying to put in the hands of their citizens. Overruling the advice of career agency staff, the Bush Administration EPA for the first time since EPA was founded 38 years ago, denied the right of the states to set tougher vehicle pollution standards under the Clean Air Act.

[Green Inc.] A Green-Thinking President Makes His First Move - Green Inc. Blog ...: standards could well result in the Detroit Big Three (otherwise known as the companies we as taxpayers now have an economic interest in seeing succeed) producing a large batch of unsellable little cars while not improving fuel-economy standards on existing SUVs and trucks in order to have an “average” fuel economy of 35 mpg.

[Knight Science Journalism Tracker] Knight Science Journalism Tracker » Blog Archive » LATimes, SF ...: In California and like-minded states will it be impossible to buy, say, a new V-8 sedan that barely gets 20 mpg on the freeway, or will it just get awfully expensive due to restricted sales volume? And until recently, one could not buy a diesel-engined car in the California but one could get a near-new one from out of state if it had a mere 7,500 miles on it.

[Bad News Day - Bad News Blog] Barack Obama presses for tougher controls on US car emissions ...: The political importance of an apparent partnership on the environment between Obama and the Republican governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was also noted by environmentalists. Schwarzenegger wrote to Obama last Wednesday, his first full day in the White House, asking him to review the Bush administration's refusal to allow California and other states to set their own emissions standards.

[Green Inc.] California Lobbies For Emissions Waiver - Green Inc. Blog ...: While this may be in the domain of the Dept of Transportation, will anyone look at the reality of those purported gas mileage numbers? Since when do any of these make any realistic sense?

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