EPA Proposes Grading System For Car Fuel Economy

suraj.sun writes with this snippet from CNET: "The EPA and Department of Transportation on Monday proposed a fuel economy label overhaul to reflect how electric and alternative fuel vehicles stack up against gasoline passenger vehicles. ... The changed label, mandated by the 2007 energy law, includes the same information on city and highway miles per gallon and estimated driving costs based on 15,000 miles a year now available. But the new labels add more comparative information, rating cars on mileage, greenhouse gas contribution, and other air pollutants from tailpipe emissions. That means that consumers can look at a label to see how one vehicle compares to all available vehicles, rather than only cars in a specific class. One label proposes grades, ranging from an A-plus to a D. There are no failing grades, since vehicles need to comply with the Clean Air Act."

Comments

Windows 7 anyone?

[robot256]

Why don't they go with something like the Windows Experience Index? The scale is from 1 to 10, except you can't buy anything lower than 3 and nothing can be rated higher than 7.9 until we feel like changing it.

Re:So, how many people does it carry?

[Idiomatick]

Division isn't that fucking hard. Jesus christ.

Re:A+ thru D = No Car Left Behind?

[Nimey]

Those people aren't covered by this. This is for new cars.

Kill yourself.

what do you expect ?

[Colin Smith]

americans are still using imperial measurements .