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Could the proposed standards lead to automakers vacating smaller
platforms?   Source: AutoNews  Comments     Threshold   RE:
Another government regulation backfiring? By Solandri on
12/14/2011 5:31:50 PM , Rating: 2 Companies faced with new
regulations will find any way to get around them not only
defeating the regulation but defeating the spirit of why the
regulation was implemented.  Companies and consumers faced with
new regulations found a way to get around them, defeating the
purpose and spirit of the regulation. The sellers can't do
anything without the buyers.  CAFE was based on the misguided
belief that "if you build it, they will come." That consumers
wanted smaller, more fuel-efficient cars, but the evil car
companies simply weren't building them. Instead, it turns out
that consumers predominantly want bigger, gas guzzling cars, and
automakers were just giving them what they wanted. So automakers
figured out a way to skirt around CAFE to co