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Trump Administration Plans to Gut Clean Car Rules (www.nytimes.com)

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New fuel-economy standards, which President Trump said he finalized Saturday, would kill a federal effort to speed the transition to electric vehicles.

Electricification is the one thing that could make the price of gas irrelevant for Americans

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[–] ExFed@programming.dev 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 child)

An odometer is a device that measures distance driven by a vehicle. Is that your missing detail?

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[–] Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 4 weeks ago

How do you enforce it? All it tells is the existing milage not usage.

Do you pro rate it? What if someone sells the car mid year?

Do you pay the difference next year? What happens if you buy the car someone drove all year as Uber but only said they'd drive 10k miles total? Nope you have a bill for 70k miles you didn't drive?

Gee only a few issues here.

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