Why don we export diesel cars from Europe that already go 50 -60 mpg?
For an answer to this, you need a history lesson. It is a lesson of corporate greed, liberal greed, and protectionism at it’s worst. In a nutshell, there are laws in the US that are based on these three groups, the corporations, the environmentalists, and the US Government. The corporations wanted laws that prevented competitions from foreign manufacturers. The environmentalists, wanting political power, wanted laws that restricted the car manufacturers and gave them some form of power over them. The Government, being able to control a US manufacturer easier than a foreign one, agreed to pass these laws with their own particular twist to them. While all of these laws started with the best of intentions, the end result is that Ford Motorcompany makes some of the best diesel engines in the world, but only makes and sells them in Europe. Some of the safest and most economical cars in the world cannot be sold in the US due to arbitrary standards that are a hodgepodge of essentially 40 year
