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American automakers are losing the race to make more fuel-efficient vehicles (www.theverge.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 43 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Also doesn’t help that the leader of the COP, Saudi Arabia, was literally found making deals for oil and has a huge operation to try to resurge oil consumption everywhere.

And of course, the US Auto industry loves light trucks and SUVs because of how fucked the CAFE standards are, meaning it’s cheaper and easier to create unsafe cars that are not only more dangerous to the environment, but also more dangerous to people and cities.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago

And more dangerous to their drivers as well, because while they may "win" collisions, they also roll over much easier.