CAFE, as written, is hot garbage. It sets a ceiling on fuel economy, not a floor. The difficulty in writing good legislation (then or now) is that other marke

CAFE, as written, is hot garbage. It sets a ceiling on fuel economy, not a floor. The difficulty in writing good legislation (then or now) is that other markets that value fuel economy more have already created some great cars. As a consequence, the easiest workaround is to import those cars and sell them here. That would predictably lead to job losses in an industry with an influential union.