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Originally Posted by Berean
LOL. I guess you've never been to Europe where half the people ride bicycles or public transportation and only the well off own cars, or people in their 30's who have finally saved up enough to afford one. If you think every high school kid has a car, and every family has 2-3 cars in England or France like we do here in the US, you don't understand how the world works. You don't need a tinfoil hat to understand that current US automotive and energy policy is similar to that of Europe, and will achieve the same results.
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Big difference. In Europe everything is packed in together and commutes are usually short. Let's not forgot that a lot of states are larger than even the biggest European countries. That's why mass transit and micro-cars work there, the average American commutes 15,000 miles a year on the other hand.
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Originally Posted by DGthe3
Well, if the value proposition for plugins doesn't pan out, and I were an OEM struggling to meet CAFE standards, I'd raise the price of my conventional cars to close the gap with my hybrids & EV's to make the efficient cars seem more attractive.
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Perception is reality I suppose. Most people I honestly don't think are educated enough about buying a car to notice sadly.