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Originally Posted by fastball
Your elected officials who make up insipid rules, like CAFE, are the ones you need to blame. GM is just trying to comply with laws that would impose serious fines on the company if they did not increase their corporate average fuel economy.
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I need to correct you on this point. These rules are made by regulators, not legislators. We vote for legislators and can influence their rules because they represent the people.
Regulators, on the other hand are not elected, and therefore do not answer to the people. They do whatever they want, and as they are wont to do, they often impose their own personal views and biases into the rules they make.
One of their personal biases is to latch onto scare tactics and fear mongering to make their own jobs seem important, and to shield themselves from popular opinions contrary to their rules. They tend to protect their own jobs by blowing issues way out of proportion and convincing people that we would all be dead if not for their rules.
We have no way of stopping them, so I have coined the phrase:
"Regulation without Representation"
The only thing we can fault GM for in these cases is for being spineless and going along with this nonsense. There used to be a time when they would fight these regulations, and they would sometimes win. Nowadays, they fold like a cheap tent when confronted by regulators.