Before I had to run my youngest to school after missing his bus the gang talked about Cafe standard and using the Oil spill to reduce them again.
Let me point out that the way cafe standards are reduced is not by redesigning the engine they are reduced by decreasing weight and removing steel, which leads to more highway deaths.
Rather than re-invent the wheel I’ll simply refer you to here here here here and of course here but I’ll give you two quotes from these sources. First the WSJ.
That difference is reflected in the real world. The death rate in minis in multi-vehicle crashes is almost twice as high as that of large cars. And in single-vehicle crashes, where there’s no oversized second vehicle to blame, the difference is even greater: Passengers in minis suffered three times as many deaths as in large cars.
And the American Thinker
How many deaths have resulted? Depending on which study you choose, the total ranges from 41,600 to 124,800. To that figure we can add between 352,000 and 624,000 people suffering serious injuries, including being crippled for life. In the past thirty years, fuel standards have become one of the major causes of death and misery in the United States — and one almost completely attributable to human stupidity and shortsightedness.
Compare those numbers to the casualties that we have suffered in 10 years in Iraq & Afghanistan and think about it.
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