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Originally Posted by jbond
I haven't seen any news on how the the new CAFE standards will play with RV industry. As first glance it seems to me that drastic changes will be required. There's no truck available that will tow an Airstream and get 35mpg and I doubt that there ever will be unless Airstream returns to building the Airstreams of the 40s. Maybe motorhomes will be exempt from the 35mpg ?
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Herb,
There is still lower CAFE requirements for trucks, unfortunately, in my opinion, this includes the mini vans and small suvs. There is no way that a minivan, PT Cruiser, Explorer, small crossover SUVs and the like should be grouped with trucks for CAFE, they are cars.
Bill
PS: please email or PM me a current email address, all the ones I have for you keep bouncing back.