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Originally Posted by Ezio
I am all for reducing emissions, and increasing fuel economy.
But there comes a point where the tech just isnt there yet.
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Exactly. Thats when it switches from gentle incentive to do both at a reasonable rate to big stick destroying whole classes of cars and car companies themselves. Look at what happened when they did this the wrong way in the 70s. We went from big block muscle cars with 450hp and station wagons to performance cars with 150hp and vans. It was too much too fast. Station wagons to this day are dead here replaced by worse economy SUVs which all but didn't exist due to them being considered trucks. Conversely, they are very popular vs suvs which virtually don't exist in europe. Chrysler needed billions in a government bailout. It hurt many automakers to the point of not existing. It took until the 90s, over 25 years, for the tech to catch up for performance cars. The new guidelines were draconian written by liberals woth the agenda of pushing electrics and beating up on capitalism and not realistic. I do remember LA looking like china in the 70s on tv. That's gone. It improves annually. And guess what. They still haven't addressed legislatively the nasty environmental impact refining nickel for lithium batteries yet. That's because its done in foreign countries but its impact is far nastier than co2 emmissions. It just became non-pc to talk about that.