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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (111608)5/21/2009 4:23:32 PM
From: Dale Baker  Read Replies (1) of 541403
 
The car companies can achieve the goals any way they like, through weight, technology, whatever. They'll probably look for the path that appeals most to the market, so if they reduce the car size, the safety standards will have to be the same or higher to compensate in terms of image.

It's curious that people are so exercised by something that affects a relatively small number of people compared to something like hospital error deaths or several other causes of death or injury I could name. The aggregate benefit of cutting our national oil consumption has to be weighed against other costs. It's no different than the calculus we make with gun laws, speed limits, etc.
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