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Originally Posted by t vago
realizeIt's called regulatory capture - a government agency that is supposed to oversee some certain segment of industry winds up getting staffed with people from that industry, for the price of greasing some palm or other of some elected critter.
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100% this.
The reality is our cars are no safer than euro, just different.
Getting graft out of the EPA would be great but still unlikely.
The new regime will likely make the regulatory capture worse based on how they want to deal with EPA.
I feel the #1 driver of change would be the elimination of reagans gray market laws.
There is simply no other way to drive excuses out of the market.