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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr
It's part of a whole deal which also embraces the Chicken Tax. Effectively blocking competition, while allowing automakers to keep selling vehicles with a seemingly outdated powertrain, is quite protectionist. Just look at how Ford and GM kept dumping gas-guzzlers in the U.S. and Canada benefitted from the lower fuel-efficiency standards instead of offering more efficient models which used to be available on overseas markets.
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I'm still not seeing how low fuel economy standards are protectionist.
Yes, the Chicken tax requires trucks and cargo vans to be made in North America to avoid large import taxes. It doesn't force manufacturers to build trucks with low fuel economy. Toyota, and Nissan set up factories in the USA and used them to build trucks with even worse fuel economy than the Big 3.
US trucks get poor fuel economy because gas is really cheap in the USA.