Lutz is exactly right, and the reason is that the Supreme court, in all of thier supposed "wisdom" ruled last week to allow the EPA to control the emissions of CO2 instead of the DOT, and have now labeled it as a pollutant, which had never been done before...The 4% mileage increase per year for 10 years is ridiculous...we have loads of technology now, as Lutz says, with Cam Phazers, SIDI etc etc...and meeting those requirements is not possible...not for us, and not for Toyota or any manufacturer..not without adding a TON of money in cost, or making the car lighter which usually means less safe and I still don't know how you could meet it. We have BAS hybrids and 2 Mode hybrids coming soon, but I don't believe even those will help us meet that target...
I truly believe that, CARB and the EPA want everyone driving around in a Smart car\Death Trap...Hell, ALL the automotive manufacturers are involved in litigation with, I believe, 8 states who want to adopt California emission and FE standards...which are supposed to be set by the Federal Gov...not individual states.
The powers that be are clueless, and the "Global Warming" witchhunt is reaching new levels of stupidity.
Last edited by 61Bubbletop; 04-11-2007 at 05:52 AM.
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