CAFE standards are about fuel efficieny vehicles.
CAFE standards have killed thousands of people by mandating smaller, less crash worthy cars. But what's a large quantity of mangled corpses matter to the greater good of left wing political correctness? Now you're trying to get rid of large safe SUV's. You nanny state, do-gooder, lovers of humanity make me puke...
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Death by the gallon
By James R. Healey
A USA TODAY analysis of previously unpublished fatality statistics discovers that 46,000 people have died because of a 1970s-era push for greater fuel efficiency that has led to smaller cars...
...Hundreds of people are killed in small-car wrecks each year who would survive in just slightly bigger, heavier vehicles, government and insurance industry research shows.
More broadly, in the 24 years since a landmark law to conserve fuel, big cars have shrunk to less-safe sizes and small cars have poured onto roads. As a result, 46,000 people have died in crashes they would have survived in bigger, heavier cars, according to USA TODAY's analysis of crash data since 1975, when the Energy Policy and Conservation Act was passed. The law and the corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards it imposed have improved fuel efficiency. The average of passenger vehicles on U.S. roads is 20 miles per gallon vs. 14 mpg in 1975.
But the cost has been roughly 7,700 deaths for every mile per gallon gained, the analysis shows... |
