US says driving would be riskier if fuel standards tougher

[muriel_volestrangler]

Obligatory "Not The Onion" notice:

The Trump administration says people would drive more and be exposed to increased risk if their cars get better gas mileage, an argument intended to justify freezing Obama-era toughening of fuel standards.
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Overall, “improvements over time have better longer-term effects simply by not alienating consumers, as compared to great leaps forward” in fuel efficiency and other technology, the administration argues. It contends that freezing the mileage requirements at 2020 levels would save up to 1,000 lives per year.

New vehicles would be cheaper — and heavier — if they don’t have to meet more stringent fuel requirements and more people would buy them, the draft says, and that would put more drivers in safer, newer vehicles that pollute less.

At the same time, the draft says that people will drive less if their vehicles get fewer miles per gallon, lowering the risk of crashes.

https://apnews.com/07c8fd1825ed42e08393f7d151a0664d

How they snuck "that pollute less" in there, when the actual argument is for vehicles that pollute more, I don't know.

I don't suppose they'd listen to an argument that increasing fuel taxes would make people drive less, and thus lower the risk of crashes.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. How many years did I spend in school? Gee, it hasn't seemed worth it since, um, November 2016. NT

[riversedge]

2. gawd. I suspect they hire people to make this sh** up!

[LuckyCharms]

3. I don't try to get healthier because I would die since...

I would be doing more things therefore placing me at greater risk for an accident.

[Ohiogal]

4. How many times you read crap like this

and wonder if you're living in some kind of heinous alternate universe!