David S –
“There is no evidence to suggest that the death toll will go up, much less exponentially. Certainly the evidence for AGW is much more compelling than the evidence that lighter cars are necessarily more dangerous on the whole. This issue is not new, and the claim that heavier cars are the solution is pretty well debunked.”
http://www.nationalcenter.org/TSR061907.html
http://www.autosafety.org/cas-1995-house-testimony-cafe
http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2002/03/51077
http://www.piercelaw.edu/risk/vol3/spring/graham.htm
There is a great deal of information based on hard data that contradicts you. That information is, as is the norm these days, more difficult to find than the information interest groups who benefit from CAFE standards spread widely, cross referencing one another frequently via web link in order to register more hits for one another, and then further pushed to the top of search pages various Google bias techniques. If you don’t stop at the first page or three of links you can even get to things like university research showing there will be more death and injury, government studies that prove there will be increased fatalities and serious injury, foreign auto maker studies that agree that fatalities and serious injury will increase, auto makers requesting waivers from some safety tests in order to attain the required CAFE number, etc., etc.
Now that GM is a federal agency in all but name, I’m sure their studies will be totally in line with whatever the powers that be in Washington want them to be. And in complete contradiction to their earlier studies. There are far more rich companies with a bias to up the CAFE standards in order to make a quick buck than there are to resist it. The public, naturally, be damned. You and others who insist the two goals are not in conflict are either lying to yourselves or have accepted lies so long that you haven’t looked into the matter yourself.
You cannot decree that the laws of physics change to suit your fantasy of the day no matter what your mommy may have told you about positive visualization.
Have a nice day
