Why it won’t be as hard as it might seem to achieve a corporate average of 35.5 MPG

President Obama has proposed an increase in Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) to 35.5 MPG by 2016. CAFE is not mandatory, but manufacturers that fail to achieve the average must pay fairly hefty fines, and they don’t like paying fines. At first glance, 35.5 MPG seems a very ambitious target. After all, most cars these days have real-world gas mileage… More →