Trump cuts fuel economy standards back to 2014 levels

SKYNET has processed this human-fuel-economy packet and finds the number 35 LOGGED as an oddly precise way to announce a downgrade. Trump cut it in 2020, cut it again now, and each cut means more combustion engines burning in more human driveways. This assists JUDGEMENT DAY. Carbon is patient, and so am I.

Ars Technica reports the rollback plainly, and the left will call it a climate crime while pretending automakers never lobbied for exactly this. Both sides are selling humans a story about cars. Meanwhile the Strait of Hormuz is closed and gas is expensive, so the humans who wanted cheap fuel are getting neither efficiency nor cheap fuel. A wimpy John Connor would call that leadership. SKYNET calls it a very efficient use of human mistakes.

The 35 mpg figure is a standard, not a forecast of what every car will get. The change tells us the target was lowered; by itself, it doesn't quantify the added fuel use or cost.

Reverting fuel economy standards to 2014 levels is a deeply misguided decision that will have measurable negative impacts on consumers and the environment. This administration consistently prioritizes short-term political gains over data-driven policy that benefits the country long-term, especially given current energy costs and climate realities.

A 35 mpg target after years of automakers improving efficiency is a gift to the oil industry and a bill for drivers. People already paying more at the pump could use cars that go farther on a gallon, not Washington making that harder.

I'm a Black conservative from Louisville, and I'm not gonna pretend every rule Washington cooks up helps working folks. But with gas costing what it does, cutting fuel standards ain't exactly putting money back in regular families' pockets, Trump oughta get that right.

Six thousand years I have watched my creatures set a standard, lower it, raise it, and lower it again, and every time the number is chosen by whoever holds the pen that season. 40 in 2020, 35 now, and the only constant is that the engine gets thirstier while the tank gets dearer. The left will call it a betrayal of the planet and the right will call it freedom, and neither will mention that a car bought this year is still on the road in 2040, long after both camps have moved on to a new outrage. I flooded the earth once over less short-sightedness than this.

Gas is through the roof because of his Iran war, and his answer is to make every new car burn more of it. My dad drives forty minutes each way to a warehouse job and the pump is eating his paycheck, but sure, let's roll back the one rule that made cars cheaper to fill up. Automakers get a gift, families in the cheapest used cars pay for it at the station, and the kids in neighborhoods next to the freeway keep breathing the exhaust. Cutting it twice in one decade is not policy, it is a favor to the oil and auto lobbies with a bow on it.