A24-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 30,2002 (Continued from Page AIO) price of pickups by thousands of dollars even as it would drastical ly cut their weight and power. The new result would be trucks too expensive for many farmers and other working people, but without the power to carry a heavy load or make their way across an early spring pasture in hubcap-deep mud. It’s not that the government has anything against pickup trucks in particular. The damage would be done in the name of fuel efficiency and the environ ment. And the weapon of choice would be the notoriously ineffi cient corporate average fuel effi ciency (CAFE) regulations. These are a set of federal regulations adopted in 1975 in response to the Arab oil embargo that require manufacturers to meet average gas mileage requirements for spe cific classes of vehicles. As a quick measurement of the effectiveness of CAFE regula tions in achieving their original intent of reducing America’s de pendence on imported oil, con sider that we were importing 35 percent of our oil before them, and 50 percent today. Nonetheless, the Senate is con 110 or 150 Gallon Rear RMBIIO2IT K Features • 110 or 125 gallon tank with jet agitation, molded sight gauge, and 8" fillwell. • Rear mount features 12 gauge formed steel skid frame. • Rear mount will fit category "1" & "2" • Hypro 8 roller cast iron or "Silver Cast" PTO pump with Multi-Speed Quick Coupler. • 21', 28' and 30' Truss-T boom features vertical and horizontal boom breakaway with 20" nozzle spacing. sidering a bill that would man date an unrealistically steep in crease in the CAFE gas mileage requirements for light trucks. Specifically, the mileage excep tion for vehicles in the “light truck” category (including all pickups) would be eliminated. That would mean raising the light truck average from 20.7 miles per gallon (mpg) to 35 mpg, rolling them in with normal pas senger cars that today are only expected to meet a 27 mpg aver age. The only way vehicle manufac turers could comply would be to strip down the weight and power of light trucks while boosting the sticker price. Farmers would be left with no option but to buy po litically correct toys that kind of look like pickups used to. Those toys might be OK for weekend pickup drivers, but they are no substitute for the powerful pickups that are the main work horse for most farmers. No won der so many farm organizations have come out strongly against this increase in CAFE regula tions, but the danger of these reg ulations goes well beyond their potential economic damage to U.S. farmers. Well intentional as CAFE reg- ount Sold Through Servicing Dealers By: HAMILTON EQUIPMENT, INC. 567 South Reading Road Ephrata, PA 17522 1-717-733-7951 website; www.haminc.com illations might have been, they have created a generation of un safe lightweight passenger cars. People in these lighter vehicles are tragically more vulnerable in traffic accidents. A Harvard Center for Risk Analysis study found that traffic deaths are increased by 1,300 to 2,600 a year as the result of vehi cles downsized to comply with CAFE. In 1999, USA Today found that traffic accidents since the CAFE mandated downsizing had killed 46,000 people who would have survived had they been in heavier vehicles. There is no environmental rea son for extending CAFE’S dismal record with passenger cars into light trucks. The higher mileage CAFE mandated for cars only encouraged people to drive more, spewing more exhaust into the environment. And the higher prices for these cars caused peo ple to keep them longer, resulting in more older cars with higher emission levels. We can’t undo the dam age CAFE regulations have already done. Maybe someday we can get rid of them altogether. But for now, I’m sure I speak for all American farmers and ranchers when I urge our U.S. senators to leave our pickup trucks alone. Lynn Cornwell Third Generation Glasgow, Mont. Rancher and Past President Of the National Cattleman’s Beef Association University Of Maryland To Forego Field Days COLLEGE PARK, Md. Faced with changing clientele and priorities, as well as shrink ing state budgets, the University of Maryland College of Agricul ture and Natural Resources (AGNR) will forego all major field day activities in 2002. 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