Reply #17: Wha? Before last year efficiency standards hadn't been increased since 1988 [View All]

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and guess what - America's best average fuel economy was in 1987. The fact is that without standards Detroit does nothing - just like they did on seat belts and airbags. Nothing.

BTW, CAFE has no direct relationship on driving habits.

"In 2002, a committee of the National Academy of Sciences wrote a report on the effects of the CAFE standard.<7> The report's conclusions include a finding that in the absence of CAFE, and with no other fuel economy regulation substituted, motor vehicle fuel consumption would have been approximately 14 percent higher than it actually was in 2002."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAFE_standards