AD&P; > December 2015 > TALK > Marginal > Gary S. Vasilash > gsv@autofeldguide.com
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alternative materials to lighten up
vehicles and increased electrifca-
tion to improve the fuel efciency
and emissions performance of
vehicles? After all, if customers are
out there buying full-size pickups
and SUVs, it would be folly not to
meet market demand, right? (And
while one might make the argument
that CAFE regulationsare not going
to allow vehicle manufacturers to do
any fuel-efciency backsliding, let's
not forget that CAFE comes out of
Washington and the only certainty
there is that uncertainty rules.)
That said, the average price of a
gallon of gas in Germany is over
$7 per gallon and in May it was
over $9. In Japan, the average
price is $5.26. In China, it is about
$4.80. Do you think that auto
makers in those countries are
going to stop developing fuel-
efcient vehicles because of the
price in the U.S.?
And what happens if the price in
the U.S. goes north and the vehicle
manufacturing capacity has gone
large?
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