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As Gas Prices Fall, Fuel Economy Loses Importance to Auto Shoppers

Item one on this list is exactly why CAFE is an unmitigated financially for automakers. Until there is Regulated fuel pricing in this country to replace CAFE their is no financial business model for a 40,000 thousand dollar 60 MPG vehicle period. They have to be deeply discounted to sell and anything less than 4.)) dollar a gallon fuel makes them a defunct business model. This is a direct looking view into how US government policy has not only contributed to losses at the domestic automakers but the foreign ones to. Ms Pelosi, When are you and the new Tree hugging Mr Waxman going to wake up and develop the political fortitude to scrap CAFE in favor of regulated fuel pricing. This is exactly why the automakers voth Domestic and Foreign alike have resisted CAFE. The Domestics have been railed for resisting CAFE but in the last round challenging California's new standard Honda, Toyota and Kia were front center and present in the fight.
Ms Pelosi you and your ilk in washington have done no better with E85 infrastructure. The manufacturers stepped up and built the vehicles and the only thing you accompolished was subsidising the farmers into making E85 fuels with no infrastructure plan. Where is your PLAN!!! Stop being hypocritical and admit you have been culpable.