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A Brief Guide to the Corporate Average Fuel Economy Law

Optimism Meets Reality: Congress required each new car’s mileage to be posted on its window sticker, hoping that buyers would select more efficient vehicles. But the lab-measured results were way higher than anyone was getting in the real world. In the ’80s, mileage numbers on the label were trimmed in an attempt to bring them closer to reality, but even that wasn’t enough. In 2008, the EPA revised fuel-economy testing to improve label-number accuracy. For example, a 1984 Cadillac Seville diesel was said to achieve 22 mpg city and 36 highway in period. Apply the ’08 adjustment and those numbers fall to 18 and 26 mpg.