{"id":865613,"date":"2026-09-30T07:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T07:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865613\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T07:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T07:26:08","slug":"opinion-trumps-fuel-efficiency-rules-do-not-doom-electric-vehicle-transition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/865613\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Trump&#8217;s fuel efficiency rules do not doom electric vehicle transition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"AIVGVMHDCFF4FMKK5GBEBNJT6Q\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The Trump administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/briefing-room\/president-trump-transportation-secretary-duffy-finalize-freedom-means-affordable-cars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reduction of fuel efficiency standards<\/a> this week is a win for consumers over heavy-handed government dictates designed to cajole the auto industry into producing electric vehicles, which are costlier, on average, than gas-powered autos. At the same time, anyone who thinks this spells doom for the transition to more environmentally friendly cars is mistaken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration\u2019s reduction of fuel efficiency standards this week is a win for consumers over heavy-handed government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28],"class_list":["post-865613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}