On Monday, Red State posted an article about changes President Trump is making to Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards.

The article reports:

On Monday, it became official: the Trump administration has rolled back the draconian Biden-era Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards from 50.4 miles per gallon (mpg) to 34.9 mpg. It’s not clear why 34.9 and not just 35, which would presumably make the math a little easier, but then, government isn’t always known for doing things the easy way.

When the standard of 50.4 miles per gallon was announced in 2024, the Department of Transportation claimed that the standards would save car owners more than $600 in gasoline costs over the lifetime of their vehicle. The problem with this number is that under the 2024 rules, car would costs $1,300 more. The math simply does not add up.

The article concludes:

There is, of course, a good argument to be made that the federal government has no authority, under the Constitution, to regulate something like gas mileage standards for cars and trucks. There is no enumerated power in the Constitution that allows Congress or the Executive Branch to do this at all, and therefore, under the Tenth Amendment, it should rightly be prohibited to them. But that ship would seem to have sailed, right around 1860, in fact: so since this is the plate we’ve been handed, at least we have a larger cut of beef on it now.

These choices should rightly be made by consumers, not government. Now, at least, this move takes us a little closer to that; that is, until a Democrat administration takes control and reverses the whole thing. Remember that in November. Remember that in 2028.

Theoretically, the change in the CAFE standards should result in lower car prices for Americans.