The Obama administration unveiled its historic rules today setting a 35.5 mpg average for the U.S. auto industry by 2016, which the government said would cut fuel consumption by 40% and generate $130 billion in benefits.
While the new rule will cost the industry $52 billion to meet, automakers embraced the standards for avoiding a patchwork of state and federal regulations, and called on the government to begin work immediately on updates for the 2017 model year and beyond.
Administration officials said the rules would raise the average price of a new vehicle by less than $1,000 in the 2016 model year, and that many consumers would earn back the cost in fuel savings over three years.
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