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Originally Posted by Viffermike
If we let consumer preference completely dictate what the market sells ... well, we would have cities with smog issues worse than Beijing and Mexico City, for starters.
Impossible, my ass.
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Perhaps I should have said impossible to meet in a cost effective manner. Automakers can manufacture plug in cars and sell them at a loss, or pay the fines. I suppose just because you scoot around in a little 228 you have no sympathy for the average Joe in his pickup.
Your statement on consumer preferences is an absurd exaggeration. For starters the air quality problem in China is from coal fired power plants. The fuel economy regs are not about air quality, they are about CO2. I guess you are a scared snowflake awake at night in fear of some imagined climate catastrophe.
If you are so worried about air quality go after the guys who remove their catalytic converters to get a few extra hp on the cheap, not me. All I did is report the news.