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US to announce sharply lower vehicle fuel economy requirements
www.reuters.com/world/us-announce-sharply-lower-vehicle-fuel-economy-requirements-2026-08-31/Replying to @stumu415@lemmy.zip
What’s funny is with the cost of gas spiking I don’t think it’ll honestly have a huge effect (not saying I agree with rolling this back). People are tired
Replying to @Prairie_Madness@lemmy.world
Yeah, that’s exactly what I thought as well. Fuel economy has been a major selling point for as long as cars have existed, because it’s always been a major part of the cost of running a vehicle.
Replying to @Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works
Fuel economy hasn’t been a selling feature for a majority of buyers in the US since the 1970s. If it was, Ford wouldn’t have stopped shipping sedans here, and EVs wouldn’t need incentives and rebates.
A large section of the US market prefers to take out huge loans to buy an Escalade or a Ford F150 and then bitch about it when gas prices go up.
Replying to @reddig33@lemmy.world
Ford stopped selling sedans because they couldn’t build good ones to outcompete the Japanese and SK brands economy wise or German/Japanese luxury and performance wise. It isnt because people want worse gas mileage.
Replying to @CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
Ford sold many of the bestselling global sedans. They stopped making them because the profit margins are higher on SUVs.
Replying to @reddig33@lemmy.world
No they didn’t. Your link, that you didnt even read, qualifies things immediately with Ford’s total sales in the EU only. In reality, the best selling sedan, in both the US and world, has been Japanese every year for the last several decades.