[opendtv] Re: News: Ditch Your TV
- From: Craig Birkmaier <craig@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:19:38 -0500
At 6:17 PM -0500 12/10/08, Tom Barry wrote:
Detroit's problems were also caused by government laws that allowed
various bloated land-barge passenger vehicles to be legally
classified as light trucks, thus bypassing some expensive safety and
fuel economy standards.
But since I assume the auto makers probably paid for those legal
exception I guess they got what they asked for.
Can you explain why this was a problem?
Obviously there was a huge market for these vehicles.
One might better ask, what kind of vehicles Detroit would have built
without the CAFE standards on passenger vehicles.
But all of this is history now.
The question that is relevant today is how can the U.S. automobile
industry survive when Congress and the Car CZAR determine what can be
built and therefore, what we can buy.
Keep in mind that the only technology that exists today to meet the
new, more rigorous CAFE standards, would require everyone to drive
around in hybrids the size of Mini Coopers...
Regards
Craig
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