Originally Posted by
mmonce
Half-way through the film, I realized that the oil industry (not technology) must be dictating our low fuel mileage.
The oil industry, and their biggest cheer leader, the Big 3 in Detroit.
Whenever Congress gets it's collective thumb from it's rectum long enough to write a meaningful piece of fuel economy legislation, the Big 3 immediately circle the lawyers and lobbyists. The Japanese circle their engineers.
The latest "threat" by the Big 3 over increasing fuel economy standars is Chrysler b!+c#ing that they won't be able to find a buyer to take them off of Daimler's hands if the Fed actually had the balls to pass CAFE standars they were considering (35 fleet mpg average by 2020, talk about weak).
Here's a good blog by a member to Tesla Motors talking about the energy policy debate in Washington over the last few months.