Trump proposes slashing fuel efficiency standards for passenger cars

[Elderberry]

CNBC by Spencer Kimball and Michael Wayland 12/3/2025

Key Points

•   President Donald Trump proposed deep cuts to fuel efficiency standards for passenger cars enacted by the Biden administration.

•   Trump announced the cuts at the Oval Office flanked by the CEOs of Ford and Stellantis.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday proposed big cuts to strict fuel economy standards for passenger cars enacted under the Biden administration.

“We are officially terminating Joe Biden’s ridiculously burdensome, horrible actually, CAFE standards that imposed expensive restrictions,” Trump said at the Oval Office, flanked by the CEOs of Ford Motor and Stellantis.

The Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards date back to 1975 and have been tightened over the years to make vehicles more efficient.

Former President Joe Biden had required automakers to increase the fuel efficiency of passenger cars and light trucks to about 50 miles per gallon by 2031. These stricter standards were expected to stimulate the production and sale of electric vehicles in the U.S.

More: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/03/trump-fuel-economy-standards.html

[Kamaji]

Let's hope they do it the correct way - in accordance with the APA - so it won't be summarily undone in court.

[DB]

It will take at least 5+ years for the effects of this to benefit people.

[Wingnut]

It will take at least 5+ years for the effects of this to benefit people.

Bullshit.  It will be impediment .

[Idiot]

Let's hope they do it the correct way - in accordance with the APA - so it won't be summarily undone in court.

The greenies will fight this tooth and nail.

[Wingnut]

The greenies will fight this tooth and nail.

How.

[Kamaji]

How.

For one thing, by arguing that correct procedures were not followed. The Administrative Procedures Act is quite clear about what procedures must be followed.  If they aren’t, it’s a slam dunk to get administrative action overturned, as Trumps administration has repeatedly proven.

[GtHawk]

The greenies will fight this tooth and nail.

Greaseball Noisome his POS AGand all of the California democrats will start the lawsuit with ever stinking democrat state joining in.

[Smokin Joe]

I'm all for it. The 50 MPG standard was to coerce people into buying electrics, and would have gutted most light trucks and multipassenger vehicles we use out here past the end of the sidewalk. Sadly, we pay for such urban ideas, in more ways than one.

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

How.

They'll try to tie it up in court like everything else.