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Originally Posted by Len_A
And the reason the government didn't keep CAFE pressure up was that the majority of people objected. Both in their buying habits and in their voting habits. Bottom line.
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People, companies, governments, CAN do the right thing. It's not the easiest thing to do. I tried, until I couldn't buy any more American machines, until there were no small American hatchbacks and I had to buy a Japanese one. You can call it nanny-statism if you want, but it was only a matter of time until oil prices went up, and it's only a matter of time until they go up again (already are). If the individual car companies couldn't do the right thing because their competition wouldn't, it was up to the government to level the playing thing and make them all do the right thing.
Anyway, I didn't really want to make this thread into a debate on who failed or didn't and why...I just couldn't believe the spin...like us GM owners don't read the paper...