Trump Administration Delays Obama’s Draconian Fuel Efficiency Standard

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President Trump will be in Michigan today and while there he will do a solid for US auto manufacturers:

A senior White House official confirmed Tuesday that President Trump will reexamine fuel efficiency standards set in place during the Obama administration, opening the door for the regulations to potentially be reduced in the coming years.

The Environmental Protection Agency ignored “a voluminous record of data” when it determined earlier this year that the regulations were appropriate, and the agency plans to formally rescind that decision on Wednesday, the official said. The EPA will then restart a review of the fuel efficiency rules that is expected to be complete in 2018.

“We’re going to pull back the EPA’s determination because we don’t think it’s right and we’re going to spend another year looking at the data in front of us,” the official said. Trump will make the announcement Wednesday during a visit with automakers in Detroit.

The EPA driven standard is 54.5 mpg for the fleet. The only way this can be achieved is by requiring more hybrid and electric cars to be made thereby creating a market for a hipster vehicle that has not caught on.

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