New York Times
The New York Times today reported that President Obama yesterday announced "the first-ever fuel economy rules for heavy vehicles." Under those rules, trucks must show fuel efficiency gains of from 10 percent for pickups and vans to 15 percent for garbage trucks to 20 percent for tractor-trailer trucks by 2018. The law providing for such rules was signed by President George W. Bush in 2007, and "truck manufacturers have not been nearly as resistant to fuel economy standards as car manufacturers have sometimes been." According to the EPA, "the rules would cost vehicle buyers $8 billion," but benefits "would exceed costs by $49 billion over the lifetime of the trucks."
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