New models of cars and light trucks, which under federal rules must nearly double their fuel efficiency by 2025 to 54.5 miles per gallon, “will more than offset the behavioral increase of more driving,” said Dan Sperling, director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis. “In 10 years vehicles will be consuming half as much fuel as they do today.”
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