Trump to Roll Back Emissions Regs... Good for Tacoma?

My gen 2 MPG sucks. I can squeeze out 19 or 20 if I am on flat land (Not much of that here in Co/Wy without a headwind). In town I get about 14 mpg to 16 mpg. Better MPG would be nice but I have the title in my name so I am ok with spending a little more in gas.
It's no secret Toyota could get way more power and better MPG than currently offered. However that would require additional cost and complex componentry that Toyota tries to avoid in their trucks for the sake of reliability.

 

WTF TOYOTA​

 

Genuinely asking...why do you say that?

 

Thanks for all the likes, ChadsPride!

 

Thanks to Chad's pride my Likes to Comment ratio is a staggering 1.27 : 1

 

Its the absolute LEAST I could do!!!!!!!!!! ​

 

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Because it's a corn lobby thing now. It takes more energy to make the ethanol than is displaced by the ethanol dilution of the fuel.

That doesn't even consider the loss of fuel economy from an E fuel.

The initial intention was good, breaking away from foreign dependency on fuel, using a renewable resource. But those problems have been overcome, and the large farm aggregate lobby (not small farmers) don't want to let go of gvmt subsidized growing and 'forced' sales.

Especially when the medical community is beating corn up from the syrup and other content.

 

Smaller and more powerful does not always equal smaller and more powerful. You can get more peak HP from a small engine that runs super high RPM's but at low, everyday RPM's, it will be a dog. The only replacement for displacement is forced induction and it will be a long time before Toyota adopts that in their Tacoma.

 

Same reasons as post #32. Using Ethanol has also risen the cost of food in grocery stores. It also causes the gasoline to separate and turn to water making it bad for storing. And it is also particularly hard on small engines and older vehicles that were not designed to run on Ethanol.

 

He must be getting a nice little kick back .. and who knows if toyota wont pay rhe tax there might not he anymore tacoma here .. we will all be driving gay ass Colorado's