On 22 May 2021 at 12:58, Lee Hart via EV wrote: > Vehicles doing things you'll never do, in places you'll never drive.
Keith Bradsher quoted someone in the auto business in "High and Mighty, The Dangerous Rise of the Suv" (slightly paraphrased since I'm too lazy to dig out the book right now), "The only time these vehicles go off road is when the owner misses his driveway at 3am." Yours is an astute observation that automakers' customers aren't us, they're the dealers. But it was the automakers who originally decided to evade the US CAFE regulations by heavily advertising trucks and SUVs. When they passed the CAFE laws, legislators assumed that those would be commercial and specialty vehicles, and subjected them to much less stringent regulation. (Whether that was an appropriate action is debateable, but that's how the treated them.) By the time their error was obvious, the makeup of congress had changed, and the legislators were firmly attached to short leashes held by the petroleum and auto industries. David Roden, EVDL moderator & general lackey To reach me, don't reply to this message; I won't get it. Use my offlist address here : http://evdl.org/help/index.html#supt = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = It will always be one of the best jokes of democracy that it gives its deadly enemies the means to destroy it. -- Joseph Goebbels = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = _______________________________________________ Address messages to ev@lists.evdl.org No other addresses in TO and CC fields UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ LIST INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org
