Public concerns/outrage over smog would never cause a technology leap to make cleaner cars and smokestacks? We are, after all, NOT China
...as PROVEN by the mortgage crisis not long ago, when they JUMPING OVER EACH OTHER to loan $500,000 to people making $50k per year and never having a prayer of paying it back.
You mean the Government/Dodd-Frank legislation that mandated those loans to take place?
“You mean the Government/Dodd-Frank legislation that mandated those loans to take place?”
I go back to those loans, that cost this country at least $6T in debt. Those loans were made by BANKERS and they sure as hell knew they couldn’t be repaid - but what the hell, safety in numbers - they can’t jail us all.
REGARDLESS of what the government wants, it is THEIR DUTY to stand up to that, not GO ALONG with it, just because they think they can get away with it.
“Public concerns/outrage over smog would never cause a technology leap to make cleaner cars and smokestacks? “
If the government hadn’t MANDATED unleaded gas be at EVERY GAS STATION some time in the 70s, we’d still be driving those smokers - there was NO WAY that the auto industry could have cleaned up their tailpipes without the government mandate, even if they wanted to (which I doubt they did).