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Originally Posted by fielderLS3
Exactly. They couldn't keep building a high volume large car that only got mid-20s. It dinged their CAFE average too much if they made too many of them. Building truck based SUVs had no such CAFE penalty. There was no CAFE sales ceiling they needed to manage.
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Essentially, the meddling masterminds behind CAFE killed the BOF car and thus accidentally created the new market known as the SUV, to fill the void. One could argue that this market actually had a WORSE impact on the environment and fuel consumption than the cars which they killed.
The laws of unintended consequences plays out and exposes the fallacy of CAFE. People who couldn't set the clock on their VCR were creating rules for the manufacturing and sales of automobiles... and patting themselves on the back for how smart they were for doing so.
Fast forward now and these same people (now unable to make a contact list for their phone) have moved on the designing our power plants.
What could go wrong?