That doesn't make any sense. Increased EPA standards would put pressure on the manufacturers to make smaller, lighter cars. Larger cars are being bought despite those standards because of demand for them. The market for anything is driven by demand from the bottom. If they try to force change from the top by offering more smaller cars, people just won't buy them and they will go out of business.
The issue is car companies lobbied to get those gas-guzzling retardmobiles classified as "light trucks," which places them in a contrived category between consumer vehicles and commercial vehicles. Hence the regulations don't apply to them.
That doesn't make any sense. Increased EPA standards would put pressure on the manufacturers to make smaller, lighter cars. Larger cars are being bought despite those standards because of demand for them. The market for anything is driven by demand from the bottom. If they try to force change from the top by offering more smaller cars, people just won't buy them and they will go out of business.
It makes perfect sense when the EPA standards are fucking insane.
There is nothing natural about the market demand for cars in America.
The issue is car companies lobbied to get those gas-guzzling retardmobiles classified as "light trucks," which places them in a contrived category between consumer vehicles and commercial vehicles. Hence the regulations don't apply to them.