Fuel Efficiency Standards Are Dead, The V8 Will Live Forever

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If there's 1 point Americans love, it's V8 engines. Big, fast, loud, they're nan American meaning of state wrapped into a gas-guzzling package. For a fewer years it looked for illustration that gluttony for substance could termination nan V8, dooming Americans to contiguous Stalinism and breadstuff lines, but thankfully our beloved President Donald Trump has a solution: Ending penalties for failing to meet emissions regulations. Now, it's unfastened play to make nan astir fuel-inefficient vehicles imaginable, ensuring nan V8 lives forever. 

Since 1975, nan Department of Transportation has regulated automakers' firm mean substance system — nan CAFE standards we each cognize and love. The regulations have, functionally, been elemental penalties that companies must salary erstwhile they neglect to meet fleet-wide mean substance system standards that person slow ticked up complete nan past 50 years. But, aft 5 decades of regulation, the latest national fund measure eliminates nan DOT's expertise to cod those punitive fines. The laws are still connected nan books, but there's nary longer immoderate punishment for failing to meet them. In essence, it's unfastened play connected substance system successful nan bully ol' U.S. of A. 

Automotive News said pinch manufacture analysts astir nan norm change, who acknowledged that automakers whitethorn good conscionable spell backmost to producing little and little fuel-efficient cars. We've already seen Stellantis get a caput start, giving nan Ram 1500 its Hemi back (and a "symbol of protest" badge, because these trucks are mostly bought retired of spite), but it's not nan only institution apt to use here. Even Toyota, known for its rigorous adherence to fuel-efficiency standards, has a V8 prototype successful nan works. 

Of course, this norm alteration raises questions astir beta cuck lib concerns for illustration "the environment" or "breathable air" or a "habitable planet." Y'know what those questions are? Communism. They're anti-V8 successful nature, and that benignant of reasoning is deserving of denaturalization. We don't want your benignant present — we'd overmuch alternatively person our thirsty, earth-shaking eight-cylinder engines. No, nary one's compensating for anything. Shut up.