The White House takes steps toward improving the efficiency of American vehicles and offers support for electric-drive vehicles on Friday, May 21, 2010. Is a coincidence that the new drive for efficiency in vehicles comes as the impact of oil spills in the Gulf reaching disaster proportions? Absolutely not.
And the President takes some specific action to resolve this problem. First, Obama signed a Memorandum of the President to the Department of Transportation and the EPA orders them to draft a policy to increase fuel efficiency for heavy trucks and medium-duty.
The standards that will mark the first time that large commercial truck will have the fuel to meet national economic targets. The combination of these new rules for medium and heavy trucks, with a target of fuel efficiency about 35.5 MPG for vehicles in 2016 was in a push-books plus the President to a higher standard from 2017 to 2025 – and you can see the tiny glasses from genuine effort by the President administration to make a dent in the US’s addiction to gasoline.
Mixed Messages on Drilling
The President also called on the DOE (Department of Energy) to expand electric cars’ incentives. Aka, there is a tax credit about $ 2,500 – $ 7,500 to purchase an electric car, and $ 4,000 to convert hybrids to plug-in hybrid car. This credit is scheduled to phase after an automobile manufacturer to build 200 000 electric battery, and after December 31, 2011 for a plug-in hybrid conversions. Only with these incentives that place for at least several years, the movement of electric car would be rapidly and certain.
Forget for a moment that the administration of Obama refuses to rule out expansion of offshore drilling. Many speculated that the Obama’s decision to open most of the eastern coastal areas to oil exploration is not so much mean a change of heart on the issue as a concession to the oil industry and its supporters.
Concessions that may be a political move to offset encourage the President to the automotive alternative-especially when most of the errors shown in the administration to allow the spill to continue day after day. The main question is how far President Barrack Obama is willing to go to support real change in energy policy.
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Source: HybridCars.Com
