What If US Fuel Economy Standards Went Away?
View on Ensia website"Companies have not been making more small, less safe and less desirable vehicles in preparation for the tighter limit, which insurance companies, manufacturers and dealers had feared. “They’re just taking the same vehicles and making them more fuel efficient,” says Benjamin Leard, a research fellow at Resources for the Future."
"Since automotive companies are in the business of making vehicles that consumers crave and maximizing profits, 'we would expect cars would be a lot less fuel efficient and more powerful and much larger than they are today,' says Leard."
