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I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest that this is not a serious suggestion.
I will also point out that it is beyond question that good things have come out of a lot of the mandates that have been imposed on the automobile industry.
It is not a serious suggestion because it is an obviously good idea or the other way around? Remember, the hybrid technology did not come out of any government mandate. The government is not smart enough to know what comes next in powering cars. Government mandate does not create technology, it simply forces people to get them because they are not smart enough to do it themselves. Seat belts were offered a long time before it was required by law.
I know there are a lot of people who think good things have come out of the government placing mandates of all sorts on the auto industry. Why not force them to build hybrids only?
There are a lot of people who think the government getting involved only ruins things. The more government gets involved, the more expensive, inefficient, and crazy things become.
There are a lot of people who think the government getting involved only ruins things. The more government gets involved, the more expensive, inefficient, and crazy things become.
Mandates are fine, when needed, but to mandate an entire industry into producing only one type of vehicle is an idea that would go nowhere. This most likely would lead to an inferior product being forced upon the American people, and there would be no incentive to improve the product.
Why not mandate that all citizens be vegetarians? Why not mandate that everyone wash clothes only once a month? Why not mandate that everyone drink only three glasses of water a day? Why not mandate? Because government has already stuck it's ugly nose into everything that we already do.
Why not mandate that all civilian vehicles be fitted with a speed limiter limiting the top speed to 55 or 60 mph? Why not mandate that a single person or couple not be allowed to purchase larger than a compact hatchback? Why not mandate that if a couple has children, they get government approval before being allowed to purchase a larger vehicle? Why not mandate older fuel efficient vehicles be banned from public roads limiting their drive time to private property or museum collections? Why not find out what color is the safest color for visibility and mandate all vehicles be painted that color? No matter what mandate the government makes, politicians will make exceptions for themselves and their large political donors and rich friends.
Because mainstream Merica don't want no battery powered cars. Those are for girls and pansies. I deserve the biggest gas guzzling vehicle money can buy because I have moral superiority over the rest of the uncivilized heathen world. Most people are to fat and happy to realize the deep **** we are in. Unfortunately it will all come crashing down one day and those F250 and soccer mom SUV's will be nothing more than a hunk of metal used for making primitive tools and slave drawn wagons. Let's just frack everything while we are at it and contaminate the one resource North America has in great abundance, water. Instead of making smart choices and changing the way we live let's live in the here and now. I mean really who cares as long as Toby Keith is singing songs about freedom and the Super Bowl means more to the majority of Merica than the Presidential Election.
Because a specific mandate assumes that a hybrid is the only or even the best solution to achieve a public policy goal and stifles technological developments that may produce even better results.
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Originally Posted by cats234
His other car is a ferrari... Electric and hybrids are fine but it will be over my dead body when this government tells me what to drive
You don't seem to have any idea how much government mandates and regulations have shaped the product development of cars over the last several decades. Unless you drive literally nothing manufactured after the late 60s or so, government is in fact telling you what to drive to a substantial degree.
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