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Not that I'm a fan of government by any means, but time has shown that carmakers will produce efficient vehicles under two circumstances:
1. The people "demand" it, and
2. The government makes them
#1 obviously works the best... when the consumers wanted MPGs in the late 70s to late 80s, the carmakers delivered, with gas and diesel engines. (My 1987 Grand Marquis still gets over 27mpg to this day, and that's with a 302, and a solid steel body with chrome everywhere!)
More of a problem comes in when the government mandates more efficiency... it's simply a daunting task to require "x" MPG, while using "y" amount of ethanol/renewable fuel, and polluting "z" (i.e. don't pollute).
Pick one of these things to carmakers to work on at a time (like high mpgs, which we know they can do), and you'll probably get faster, and cheaper results.
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1991 F250 XLT Supercab 4x4
7.3IDI Non-Turbo E4OD
4.10 gears
Bone Stock
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