# White House delaying release of new fuel economy standards

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/white-house-delaying-release-of-new-fuel-economy-standards/68398>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [October 4, 2011, 12:37am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/white-house-delaying-release-of-new-fuel-economy-standards/68398 "2011-10-04T00:37:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chris\_T](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a8b319/32.png) [@Chris\_T](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Chris_T)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 5:22am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/white-house-delaying-release-of-new-fuel-economy-standards/68398/21 "2011-10-06T05:22:24Z")

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“these new CAFE standards are unrealistic unless we are willing to let the government force us to drive tiny slow little bubble-cars and/or hybrids so expensive that the lower middle class will be priced out of driving.”

My 1991 VW Golf Diesel routinely gives me 45+ MPG. It’s not an SUV or a delivery van, but it’s also not tiny, slow, a bubble car, a hybrid, or expensive. Newer models are even more efficient and do things like turn off the engine at stop lights. A friend got back from England recently where he was riding in a friend’s slightly smaller VW Polo Diesel that routinely gives 70 MPG (U.S. gallon, not imperial) over the 2 years he has had it. The Golf is bigger/heavier and so reportedly gives a bit worse economy, somewhere around 60 MPG.

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**Author:** ![bscar](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/bscar/32/34_2.png) [@bscar](https://community.cartalk.com/u/bscar)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/white-house-delaying-release-of-new-fuel-economy-standards/68398/22 "2011-10-06T20:56:51Z")

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you can bet small diesels will be coming to help offset the CAFE. I know Mazda is bringing one out soon as is Chevy

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**Author:** ![jtsanders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c2a13f/32.png) [@jtsanders](https://community.cartalk.com/u/jtsanders)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2011, 12:55am UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/white-house-delaying-release-of-new-fuel-economy-standards/68398/23 "2011-10-07T00:55:12Z")

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An Escalade isn’t big enough to overcome my insecurity. I need a truly large truck: the International CXT. Or, I may just have made an error. that’ll teach me to use big words.

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