The new standards require American automakers to increase fuel economy so that, across their product lines, their passenger vehicles would average 65 miles per gallon by 2031, up from 48.7 miles today. The average mileage for light trucks, including pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, would have to reach 45 miles per gallon, up from 35.1 miles per gallon. Selling electric vehicles and hybrids would help bring up the average mileage per gallon across their product lines.
A step in the right direction, but it should be even higher. The car industry should be complaining about it, not happily agreeing to it.
All that aside, we also should start priorizing the many other ways of getting around cities and states that don’t rely on cars and planes so much.
Bullet trains, crashproof bike lanes, and wide pedestrian paths should take priority. Give people options, and it makes life way easier.