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...some of Mumbai's ritziest sites, brought India's cocooned elite to the streets. Smartly dressed families toting digital cameras came to the rally in waves of taxis. Venerable Parsi patricians, their spouses supported by maids, strolled down the old Strand Road flying mini-Indian flags. Outside the Cafe Leopold, a 19th century bar that was hit by the terrorists, there was a roaring trade in "I 'heart' Mumbai" T-shirts. Each cost 100 rupees, more than what many Indians earn in a day. (See pictures of the days of terror in Mumbai...
Still, DeCicco points out, even if the CAFE numbers don't reflect reality, by raising the standard to 35 m.p.g., it mandates a relative increase in fuel economy of about 40%. But the government's double bookkeeping still matters - especially with the NHTSA set to issue final regulations that will help guide automakers to meet the new standard. An EPA analysis from September shows that the 35-m.p.g. CAFE standard will translate to 27 to 28 m.p.g. under real-world conditions - about the same fuel efficiency that the current CAFE standard purports to enforce. "The program is undermined...
...CAFE standard is the average annual fuel efficiency for a manufacturer's entire fleet; automakers have to meet that standard or pay a fine. But the current measured CAFE standards, nationally, of about 27.5 m.p.g. for cars and 22.2 m.p.g. for light trucks has little to do with real-world performance. John DeCicco, the automotive expert for the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), estimates that in actual driving, the current measured CAFE standard, for cars, is closer to 22 m.p.g, and, for trucks, closer to 18 m.p.g. "It's longstanding common knowledge that the government has been keeping two sets...
That's partly due to the fact that while the EPA rates the fuel economy of vehicles on a model-by-model basis, the calculation of CAFE falls to the National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration (NHTSA), part of the Department of Transportation. Under the laws that have created and modified CAFE, the NHTSA isn't allowed to revise its tests - meaning it's stuck using tests that haven't really been updated since CAFE was established...
...greens fought hard to mandate an increase in the CAFE standards. They won a half-victory - the 2007 energy bill gradually raises the CAFE standard for cars to at least 35 m.p.g. by 2020. That's the first mandated increase in two decades - but the U.S. standards still lag behind those of Europe and Japan, and barely keep pace with China's. And, yet, that increase - against which foot-dragging U.S. automakers fought hard, complaining about the cost of meeting higher fuel efficiency standards - required compromises, which forced the NHTSA to keep using the old rules. "It's a shame...