The new standards are part of a broad push to get more Americans into electric vehicles, and reduce the environmental cost of driving.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    This isn’t aimed at just American manufacturers (Tesla, GM, Ford) but all vehicles sold in the US.

    Sure, but with almost no exceptions, the popular cars with the worst mileage are American ones.

    Most other rich countries have much more ambitious plans that include phasing out fossil fuel only cars COMPLETELY, and are able to do so because their politicians don’t have to kowtow to the intertwined interests of their owner donors from Big Oil and Detroit.

    People always seem to resort to “American protectionism” and other falsehoods when discussing stuff like this

    Because it’s NOT a falsehood. See above.