What if...

[ocnblu]

I was thinking of a scenario with regards to the auto industry and government regulation of it.

WHAT IF... everything were the same, as far as world events... the gas crises, safety and emissions regulations all happened exactly as in real life... but CAFE, or any form of it, were never thought of?

What would today's vehicle lineups look like? Would market forces have been such that things would look pretty much the same... or would the car world look completely different?

If you have a few minutes, let us speculate...

[Camino LS6]

A wider variety would exist.

[balthazar]

No doubt IMO, at the onset of when CAFE did hit, the degree of change would've been very big from where it went.

At this point tho, 2013, I think the paths would've converged pretty close to where we are now.

[RjION]

I think there is more than one what if within that what if.

Like what if .......................... the performance wars would have gone unchecked, and unrestricted.

[G. David Felt]

We would still have some of what has come about today, but I think without Cafe, America would have the same Acid Rain issues of Europe possibly due to dirty diesel and other forms of powered auto's. Then on the flip side of this, we could have totally moved away from Petrol to Natural Gas or some other form by now.

The Oil Industry Monopoly is hurting not helping the US. Current Wholesale Levels of refined gas are growing and yet prices are starting to go back up due to the monopoly of gas when if they truly had to compete we would see true drop in prices.

Speculation is hurting the average man not helping in the markets for oil and refined gas.

[Drew Dowdell]

A wider variety would exist.

Could exist.... would? I doubt it.

[the_yellow_dart]

The performance wars were checked? What do you call the Veyron?