China's Fuel Efficiency Kicks America's Butt

Posted by Dr. Joseph Romm, Climate Progress at 12:04 PM on March 25, 2008.

Not a single U.S.-made car meets China's fuel standards.

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The Toronto Star reported an alarming factoid earlier this month:

No gasoline-powered car assembled in North America would meet China's current fuel-efficiency standard.

That's mainly because:

Their standard is much higher than ours is currently.
Their standard is a minimum-allowable efficiency standard, not a "fleet-average" standard like ours.
Our lame car companies don't make their (relatively few) most efficient vehicles in this country.

As for our much-hyped new 35-mpg (average) standard -- it will take us in 2020 to where the Chinese are now (but not even to where Japan and Europe were six years ago). If we don't rescind it, that is. So whether you believe in human-caused global warming or peak oil, America remains unprepared to capture the huge explosion in jobs this century for clean, fuel-efficient cars.

Oh, and by 2010, China will be the world leader in wind turbine manufacturing and solar photovoltaics manufacturing. No worries, though, our TV and movie sales overseas still kick butt. For now.

Tagged as: china, global warming, climate change, fuel efficiency, cafe

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