Originally published September 4 2005
SUVs get a reprieve from mileage exemptions
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) plan will exempt SUVs from mileage regulations, much to the dismay of environmental groups.
By relying on mammoth land yachts we don't have to worry about making cars that can compete with what's coming out of Europe and Japan.
The Hummer H2: damn the falling sales, full speed ahead!
Therefore, even though gas prices have soared and the public is abandoning big SUVs at a record rate (causing our stock to sink into junk bond territory), we're still going to count on big guzzlers to be our saviors.
What's more, even though big SUVs wreak havoc with air quality, aggravate global warming and take us ever further from our supposed goal of energy independence, we expect Washington to guard our backs by not passing any laws that interfere with our illogical strategy.
Under Bush's proposed Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) plan, car mileage rules (unchanged since the mid-1980s) will stay as-is, but light-duty trucks will have to average 22.2 mpg by 2007.
She's none too coherent, but she makes more sense than the Bush administration's auto regulators, who according to the New York Times, are preparing to, once again, exempt "Hummer H2s and other huge sport-utility vehicles" from proposed fuel-economy regulations.
The government's plan will convince automakers of the rightness of their strategy, pushing them even further down the road to economic disaster.
The presumption is that Detroit's Big Three are only competitive in the largest vehicle segments.
But even there the domestics have lost ground.
Toyota is also making inroads into big SUV territory with the grossly oversized Sequoia, and Nissan has--get this--the Armada, a huge V-8-powered SUV that out-Detroit's Detroit and competes directly with the Ford Expedition and Chevy Suburban.
It's not surprising that the Lexus 400h, a big SUV with a hybrid drivetrain and 27 mpg fuel economy, is a hit.
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