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This is probably reasonable. Economy, emissions, safety, and vehicle cost have trade-offs with each other. We're probably already beyond the point where it can
by carry_bit 9y ago
This is probably reasonable. Economy, emissions, safety, and vehicle cost have trade-offs with each other. We're probably already beyond the point where it can be justified from a cost-benefit analysis.
- beached_whale 9y agoThe rest of the world is paying the price or even better finding ways to do it without driving the cost up.
- valuearb 9y agoThat's not true. There is a cost to every regulation or it would already be a market standard.
- beached_whale 9y agoBut I didn't say there wasn't a cost, just that everyone else will be paying it and the cost may not affect consumers. Pricing doesn't just reflect the cost but other factors too.
- carry_bit 9y agoWe're adding larger and larger costs for smaller and smaller improvements (as is to be expected, you start with the low hanging fruit and then move up the tree). Other countries are paying the price, but does that mean the US should? If it isn't worth the cost, why should the US follow other countries off the cliff?
- beached_whale 9y agoOne does not have to use an ICE. An electric car counts against the fleet economy and once they aren't a novelty and the production numbers hit millions the price should come down. One reason to do so is so that North American auto's can be exported