Reply #8: How would she do that? [View All]

[nichomachus]

Hillary would raise fleet-wide fuel economy standards from the current level of 25 miles per gallon (mpg) to 40 mpg in 2020 and 55 mpg in 2030. By 2030, these tough CAFE standards will save consumers more than $180 billion per year and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 730 million metric tons.

How would she do that? By executive order? Would she dissolve Congress and rule by fiat?

This has to pass the Congress (a wholly-owned subsidiary of the energy companies and automakers) and then battled out in the federal courts (another wholly-owned subsidiary of the energy companies and automakers).

It would be more correct to say that Hillary "will propose it" or "would like to see it," but saying she will do it ignores some very unpleasant realities in American political life.