"Anytime you add technology to a vehicle you add cost," he told The Daily Caller. "And the types of technologies that would need to be added to a vehicle to meet those standards could have the potential to price consumers out of the market all together."
By Caroline May - The Daily Caller
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Want pigs to fly, Brussels sprouts to taste like Twinkies, and Justin Bieber to get a haircut? By the government's logic, just make a rule mandating that it must be so and…voila! All of a sudden beachfront property can now to be purchased in Kansas!
An industry observer told TheDC that in order to meet the mileage range the government could demand, people will have little choice but to buy electric cars. "It's great, it's a great thought, and we hope we get there, but you have issues of range, you have issues of infrastructure, and you have issues of cost. Now if, if gas stays around the three dollar a gallon range, people are not going to go rush to pay thousands of dollars more per vehicle. It's going to be very, very difficult," the industry observer said.
"If the rules lead to incentives for people to buy smaller, lighter vehicles, then, we're trading more crash deaths for better fuel economy.
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