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• was1958

  Brilliant! Bring the final death blow to the auto industry. Wow Stephen, less than one thousand dollars additional cost for the consumer. Sign me up for higher prices!

• j man

  I just hope trucks do not follow the same standards. I would hate to try and tow something with a truck rated at 35 mpg. Yes, it would be nice to get that but it would have no power to move anything.

  As far as cars, I am all for it. GM is coming out with the Cruze and Volt very soon with the new American made Aveo, Korean made Spark and the American made Orlando coming out soon. These will help GM get closer to these #s desired by the gov't.

  Fortunately is is a average of all the cars manufactured so it will hopefully not affect the Corvette (all though my uncle does claim to get 30 mpg out of his).

  Just to make sure, do the foreign transplants have to comply with these standards?

• 80'sBaby

  And to that I'd say, “death to the auto industry and life to planet Earth”! But I'm sure you wouldn't care about that seeing you're probably born in 1958. For those of us who actually care about our planet and its future this is a win win. Besides, the free market has already dictated higher fuel standards…this just makes it official.

• GMfan87

  you're exactly right the market is starting to head in that direction. the problem is that the government shouldn't “make it official”, let the market decide that on its own just as it is doing. some of us don't just drive cars for getting from point A to point B. we drive them for enjoyment. It's a matter of preference. finally, get off your ego boosted tree hugging pedestal, there's a lot more out there hurting the planet than a few mpg's.

• Cry Babies

  pppplssss…don't act like you 'love' and care about the planet and all. How often do you do things and though about raising global temperature up 1 degree celcius? Yea, right? /sarcasm

• J man

  I have my cars for getting from A to B and I have my cars for fun. All though I do feel it is a good thing that we all get better mpg out of our cars, there are tons of things that people can do to reduce the greenhouse gasses. Solar panels and wind turbines are good options. Reducing your energy use overall would be the best option wither it is with our cars or our daily usage at home. It needs to be a collective thing. I think the auto industry is just easier to bash, especially since we are on a car site.

  Now, I am going to turn off my computer and my tv, go outside and save some energy.

• GMfan87

  thanks for the public service announcement…you go do that, captain planet…

  from that comment it sounds like you agree with my point, its up to US to be responsible with our energy and resource consumption. it is NOT the governments job to impose them upon us.

• SHO

  Without any rules, people would do whatever they wanted. You have to put something in place or we would go back to the days over consumption. We all know the technology is there, a few years ago 220+ hp from a standard street version V6 was a big deal and now we get pissed if it’s not 300+. Times have changed but we can still melt down tires and save gas at the same time.

• Terry

  This is a welcome move although I’m wondering if all manufacturers will be able to bring down their average fleet mpg on time. I’m just happy Mahindra is in the green zone. Their pickups, scheduled to arrive this year, are already promising very impressive fuel economy. That should be a relief to all truckers desperately waiting for a fresh face in the compact pickup space.