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Originally Posted by guitarlix
THANK GOODNESS for CAFE. It it weren't for CAFE, the domestics would probably be dead and floating in the water by now.
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YEP.
Finally somebody who understands one of the three positive aspects concerning CAFE - and can accurately describe the most important effect or current value such as it is.
Lets go a step further, arbitrarily and undesirably leaving everything else the same, just imagine a truck/suv CAFE number that had gradually and intelligently phased in an additional 3mpg over the previous 20 years - 'supported' just a little during the critical period of '88 thru 93.
Now couple that with a 'minor' revision package concerning flexfuel credits - fully compensated for and then some in other ways to increase incentive for flexfuel provision and related other - so that ethanol infrastructure and use had been favored.
And just one more.
Take a snap shot in '88 of what actually was produced.
Use the number 6, America's number (sad to think it isn't 7) and divide and redefine 'the 'light' 'vehicle' class between 0 - 18,000lbs (Max GVWR) into 6 vehicle weight classes - then apply the 3 mpg to all - with different scheduling and 'support' for each over the 20 year period.
That's just an incomplete baby version.
The greatest display of ignorance concerning CAFE is the lack of acknowledgment concerning the critical role it played in obtaining the lowest fuel prices in real terms this nation has ever seen - in the late '90s.