CAFE and a rant...

[absintheisfun]

How is it that we (and the future of our hobby) can be subjected to the CAFE standards, but no new guidelines are placed on Tractor trailers????

EVERYTHING, and I do mean everything that you touch--from food to furniture travels in one of these from somewhere in the US to another place in the US (or from one of the many cost-cutting plants in Mexico or Central America to the US) getting...

...hold on now....

A whopping 3-5 miles per gallon...7 on a good day!
The most expensive fuel available: DIESEL
I know all to well what these things have to haul, but why is it that there is no apparent improvements being made, or even attempted?

If there was an improvement of just 50% in effeciency it would lessen the cost on just about everything!!!

WHY, WHY are we the consumers pushed into a corner to buy a prius or a kia, while the true gas guzzlers are not being held to ANY improvement standards?

I just don't get it...