{"id":20650,"date":"2025-12-05T19:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20650"},"modified":"2025-12-05T19:26:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:26:22","slug":"trump-rolls-back-biden-era-fuel-economy-standards-paving-way-for-more-gas-powered-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20650","title":{"rendered":"Trump rolls back Biden-era fuel economy standards, paving way for more gas-powered cars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Trump said the administration was officially terminating Biden\u2019s \u201cridiculous\u201d CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) rules, claiming car prices would come down in response to today\u2019s action. Automakers&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/sites\/nhtsa.gov\/files\/2025-12\/CAFE-LD-2022-2031-Notice-of-Proposed-Rulemaking.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">are now required to meet an average of 34.5 mpg<\/a>&nbsp;across their model fleet by 2031, a dramatic drop from the average of 50.4 mpg across 2031 that the Biden administration had proposed.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/trump-rolls-back-biden-era-fuel-economy-standards-paving-way-for-more-gas-powered-cars-212656060.html\">https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/trump-rolls-back-biden-era-fuel-economy-standards-paving-way-for-more-gas-powered-cars-212656060.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Trump said the administration was officially terminating Biden\u2019s \u201cridiculous\u201d CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) rules, claiming car prices would come down in response to today\u2019s action. Automakers are now required to meet an average of 34.5 mpg across their model fleet by 2031, a dramatic drop from the average of 50.4 mpg across 2031 that the Biden administration had proposed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/trump-rolls-back-biden-era-fuel-economy-standards-paving-way-for-more-gas-powered-cars-212656060.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[375,1092,237,105,221,1504,103,233,1218,104,780,1265,170],"class_list":["post-20650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-biden","tag-cars","tag-clean-energy","tag-climate-change","tag-donald-trump","tag-electric-vehicles","tag-environment","tag-fossil-fuel","tag-gas","tag-global-warming","tag-joe-biden","tag-oil-and-gas","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20651,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20650\/revisions\/20651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}