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Its not so much that the politicians want to destroy Detroit per se. They simply want votes. They can get votes by promising more and more fuel economy regulations, because the average consumer roughly believes that fuel economy is just a number that is programmed into an engine. Regulations call for 100 mpg? Why all the engineers have to do is type in 100 into the engine control computer and it will do that. So to win the votes from those people, all the politicians have to do is outbid each other on CAFE regs. If Detroit has to go down, well thats the price to be paid to keep our swell politicians in office.