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Originally posted by taxwonk
I think you're opverlooking Hank's primary point. The aim of the CAFE rule is to require the entire industry to work toward reducing hydrocarbon consumption and emissions.
The current work Ford is doing with alternative fuel and Flex-Fuel vehicles is exactly what the rules are aimed at. It odesn't matter if they build an Exploder or a Prius, if they can get both vehicles to run on hybrid engines that get 100 miles to a gallon, or safe hydrogen fuel cells that don't blow up.
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I'm not overlooking it at all. The question is what gives them a greater incentive to conduct such reasearch? A government mandate or the knowledge that failing to do such research allows them (but does not require them) to pay someone else to do it. It's classic outsourcing.
Why should we waste societal resources forcing Ford to come up with solutions if someone else (GM, Toyota, BMW) can do it better, for cheaper, and then sell those benefits to Ford?
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