Back in the 1980s Toyota started making super efficient cars that hardly ate any gas. So Detroit had to start going along with the idea. Cars back then got a lo

Back in the 1980s Toyota started making super efficient cars that hardly ate any gas. So Detroit had to start going along with the idea. Cars back then got a lot more gas mileage than they do today even though the engines were not as sufficient but they did so because the cars had much lighter weight than they do today.. cars today are heavier per volume because of all the safety regulations. The safety regulations were pushed through Congress based on media scare propaganda about traffic safety and car crashes and so forth. But who paid the media to put out all that propaganda. That led to safer but heavier cars that consumed more gasoline? I have an idea. I think it was the oil companies that paid the media to put out scare propaganda about automobile safety and then they paid the politicians to pass the laws to make cars a lot safer and heavier.. that caused the price of gas to go back up