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Affordability<\/p>\n

The Trump administration said the move would save Americans money, reducing the average cost of new vehicles by about 2% or $1,000. But environmentalists say the opposite \u2014 that increased fuel standards reduce the amount of gasoline needed to go the average mile.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cConsumers will be paying more at the pump,\u201d said Jason Schwartz, legal director of the Institute for Policy Integrity, a think tank based at New York University School of Law.\n<\/p>\n

Schwartz said the Department of Transportation created a \u201cnew category of supposed costs\u201d to offset the increased usage of gasoline for less-efficient vehicles. For example, without the focus on creating more efficiency, the car makers could increase horsepower that could lead to savings.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so, what the Department of Transportation has done is assign some value to those supposed losses, and is using that to try to offset a mythical cost to try to erase from their tally sheet all the fuel savings that consumers are going to lose out on,\u201d Schwartz said.\n <\/p>\n

In addition to pumping more gas, an annual report from the government\u2019s Energy Information Administration released in April<\/a> shows that without the Biden-era climate rules that encouraged the manufacturing of cleaner cars, the price of gasoline will rise by 76 cents per gallon, Alson said.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say it\u2019s very deceptive what the Trump administration is saying that this will save consumers a lot of money,\u201d he said. Alson added that while he agrees rolling back the fuel efficiency standards would save consumers about $1,000, the costs to consumers of higher gas prices would far outweigh the savings in the costs of new vehicles.\n<\/p>\n

Health impacts on the Philly region<\/p>\n

Public health advocates and environmentalists also say that while the fuel efficiency standards had the original goal of reducing reliance on foreign oil, the impact on air quality was significant.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that has been an incredible boon for public health and millions of lives saved and early deaths averted, because of those improvements in air quality,\u201d said Jane Clougherty, professor of environmental and occupational health at Drexel University\u2019s Dornsife School of Public Health.\n<\/p>\n

Clougherty said reducing fuel use would have lessened the tailpipe emissions, including volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides, which are associated with poor health impacts including asthma and cardiovascular disease.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Philadelphia, we have a number of really important air pollution sources, including refineries and legacy industries around our region,\u201d Clougherty said. \u201cBut no question, nitrogen dioxide is still one of the most important contributors to air pollution in our region.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

NYU\u2019s Schwartz called it a \u201ctriple whammy,\u201d starting with passing on more costs to consumers.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s bad enough to increase greenhouse gas emissions. It\u2019s especially bad since we\u2019re already in a climate crisis,\u201d Schwartz said. \u201cIt\u2019s especially bad in combination with all of the other environmental rollbacks that we\u2019re seeing. All those effects are just going to compound on each other.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Affordability The Trump administration said the move would save Americans money, reducing the average cost of new vehicles…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":425457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,198158,50055,1448,2830,1311,49738,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,49740],"class_list":{"0":"post-425456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-emissions-standards","10":"tag-fossil-fuel","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-trump-impact","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-whyy-news-climate-desk"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115664585197232946","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}