The Auto Alliance is calling for a single emissions standard and the State of California is requesting a waiver from the EPA to institute it’s California Air Resources Board (CARB) standard to help clean up the skies over the state. The Obama Administration appears to have addressed both of these issues with one single move – a Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard higher than CARB.

“Now that the new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) law, passed by Congress in Dec. 2007, is at last being implemented, America’s auto dealers call on all stakeholders, including the Obama administration and California regulators, to embrace a single, national fuel economy standard.”

CAFE is actually higher than CARB’s standard.

The CAFE standard set by the Obama administration for model year 2011 is 27.3 mpg for the light duty fleet, which includes passenger cars and light trucks. Source: Associated Press, March 27, 2009” (Source: PR Newswire)

I’m sure that we’ll be hearing from people and organizations that aren’t happy with this. This is to be expected, though, as you can’t please everyone.

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