re: #79 ericblair

Of course. What is the yam administration going to do, punish automakers for making too fuel efficient cars? Of course, any strategic planner is going to figure that there’s a pretty huge chance the flying monkey administration goes away in a year or so and sanity returns, plus the rest of the world isn’t going along, so why go out of your way to design a uniquely fuel inefficient line for one market that’s likely to be illegal again in no time?

The standards are based on averages. So auto makers wouldn’t have to go out of their way to make less efficient cars, they could just make and push more of the high profit trucks and SUVs.