Sentences with phrase «gas mileage standards»

They stressed that proposed increases in gas mileage standards for new vehicles would be extremely expensive and could have calamitous results.

Wagoner said a 4 percent increase in gas mileage standards would be «extraordinarily expensive and technologically challenging to implement.»

The auto leaders came to Washington, amid growing concerns about climate changes, looking to beat back proposals gaining momentum that would increase gas mileage standards each year for new vehicles.

On May 19 President Barack Obama announced a new federal gas mileage standard: by 2016 the nation's entire car and light truck fleet should average 35.5 miles per gallon.

The new EPA gas mileage standards will require that by 2025, all cars must average 54.5 miles per gallon.

Automakers may complain about rising gas mileage standards, but as several have proved over the years, they don't always have to meet them.

Environmentalists are behind measures to increase vehicle efficiency, but automakers argue that pushing gas mileage standards up that quickly through 2025 could force them to raise prices higher than drivers can afford.

EPA chief Pruitt announced on Monday that he will revise the agency's Obama - era emissions and gas mileage standards for automobiles.Last October the EPA ended the agency's «sue and settle» policy that would create «regulation through litigation.»

EPA chief Scott Pruitt announced on Monday that he will revise emissions and gas mileage standards for automobiles.