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by Tondoteottotote on March 29th, 2005

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Why do vehicles that weigh over 8500 lbs GVW have an exemption from Federal Emissions and Fuel Economy Standards? How would things be different if they weren't?

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  • by Anonymous on April 1st, 2005

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      It wouldn't be practical to manufacture large vehicles if they were required to meet the same emissions and fuel economy standards that are required of smaller vehicles.

      As for how things would be different if they were required to meet these standards, I suppose you can begin by trying to imagine a world with no large trucks, no busses, no locomotives, no vehicles of any kind over about the size of a large station wagon.

      Raw materials would have to be delivered to factories, and manufactured goods delivered from factories to warehouses and to stores in much smaller vehicles than are now used.  Though each delivery would use less fuel and produce less pollution, it would take many, many more cars full of products to deliver the same products that are now delivered in fewer large trucks, so more fuel would be used, and more pollution would be produced.  Because of the increased fuel, the increased number of vehicles to be acquired and maintained, and the increased manpower to drive them, the prices of all goods would be drastically increased.  I imagine that there'd be a particular irony in that the vehicles used to deliver gasoline to gas stations would probably consume more fuel themselves, in the course of making their deliveries, than they would be able to deliver.

      There would be some products that could not be delivered at all.  Large pieces of furniture, large appliances, anything that's too big to fit in a car small enough to meet the Federal Emissions and Fuel Economy Standards.

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  • by Tondoteottotote on May 5th, 2005

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    If legislators nullified the exemptions this decade, recent technological innovations may make this feasible, but more expensive.

    The cost of everything would go up either way, at least until the said technological innovations becomes practical and cheap.

    In fact, nullifying this exemption might become reality by 2050 since we'll move on to non-polluting fuel-cells, as well as vehicles made with lighter materials, the lesser weight of which reduces fuel consumption.

    Bob, I never mentioned "legislating technology". I said if they removed the exemptions from such vehicles...

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