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Originally Posted by Captain Awesome
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.
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There was an anecdote going around right after Congress voted to bump CAFE up to 35.5 a few years ago. One of the swing votes that determined the fate of the bill was initially against it....until one day she saw 32 mpg on the instant DIC readout on her Buick while rolling down the highway, figured we were so close to begin with based on that that it would be easy, and changed her vote.
The people who have forced thousands of regulations on how cars are built....this is the general level of scientific and engineering knowledge they have. There is a reason the Soviets never made a good car.