Return of the gas-guzzler? Trump’s new law may mean thirstier engines

President Donald Trump’s nixing of fines for automakers failing to meet corporate average fuel economy standards through his new budget law guts the regulations and will encourage the return of the gas-guzzler, analysts and environmental organizations say.

The new law effectively eliminates CAFE, which will “undercut decades of effort to build and design a regulation that benefits all Americans and promotes a more globally competitive U.S. auto market,” Levi Kamolnick, federal policy director at CALSTART, said in a statement.