Re: US regs

[George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Still, this poster is correct. Most of the safety regs are aimed at 
protectionism. Especially the draconian ones affecting private 
importation of cars.

George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0S



On Thursday, Jul 24, 2003, at 07:32 US/Pacific, alfa-digest wrote:


> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 01:12:30 -0400
> From: Joe Elliott <jee@domain.elided>
> Subject: re: US regs
>
> At 3:22 AM +0000 7/24/03, alfa-digest wrote:
> > The big Three (actually the big two and a half) seem to have 
> > Washington
> > wrapped around their little finger(s).
> I don't know if I'd say that.  Look at the disparity between
> emissions-oriented US regs and fuel economy-oriented ones.  A lot of
> the former for decades, very little of the latter, very recently.
> I'd say it's mostly the oil industry running the show in Washington
> these days.
>
> - -Joe
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