Sentence examples for economy rules from inspiring English sources

Americans do not think of fuel economy rules as a tax on large vehicles.

Federal fuel economy rules are much more lenient for sport utility vehicles than for cars.

If these regulations were tough enough, they could make a difference, as the fuel economy rules have.

The classic example is the fuel economy rules from the 1970s that required car companies to make fewer gas guzzlers.

But amending corporate average fuel economy rules -- known as CAFE standards -- is also fraught with questions about jobs and safety.

But Ms. Bergquist said car companies would need to know what their fuel economy rules would be after 2016, when the program announced Thursday ends.

Fuel-economy rules allow for all sorts of exceptions, sometimes with unintended results.

The weakness with the fuel-economy rules is that they don't affect people's behavior the way higher gas prices do.

Higher gas taxes and less loophole-laden fuel-economy rules would have helped avert the current problem.

The corporate average fuel-economy rules require that manufacturers conform to consumption of 27.5 miles per gallon for saloons, but only 20.7 for SUVs and the like.

Chet Lunner, a spokesman for the Transportation Department, which administers fuel-economy rules, declined to comment, saying the panel had not briefed the agency.