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Cars Roundup: Fuel Efficiency and Safety Standards
How far will a gallon of gas take you? In ten years, new cars will need to average 54.5 miles per gallon to meet federal fuel efficiency standards. But automakers are running out of easy ways to get there. They're now looking to improve not your car, but your gasoline.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readHow far will a gallon of gas take you? In ten years, new cars will need to average 54.5 miles per gallon to meet federal fuel efficiency standards. But automakers are running out of easy ways to get there. They're now looking to improve not your car, but your gasoline. Higher octane gas makes cars more fuel efficient, but it's also more expensive.
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Photo Symbolizes Refugee Crisis; LA Restaurants Accused of Price-Fixing- 0:17How One Photo Has Become a Symbol of the Migrant and Refugee Crisis
- 9:44Hungary's Migrant Standstill
- 17:27Cars Roundup: Fuel Efficiency and Safety StandardsYou’re reading this
- 26:34Elena Ferrante's 'The Story of the Lost Child'
- 41:09Are L.A. Restaurants Price-Fixing?
The full episode
3 of 5Photo Symbolizes Refugee Crisis; LA Restaurants Accused of Price-Fixing- 0:17How One Photo Has Become a Symbol of the Migrant and Refugee Crisis
- 9:44Hungary's Migrant Standstill
- 17:27Cars Roundup: Fuel Efficiency and Safety StandardsYou’re reading this
- 26:34Elena Ferrante's 'The Story of the Lost Child'
- 41:09Are L.A. Restaurants Price-Fixing?