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Actually the CAFE standards allow car makers to pay to compensate for less efficient designs. So we already have what you suggest.


No, because the size of the penalties do a terrible job of tracking the carbon emissions, e.g.:

> CAFE footprint requirements are set up such that a vehicle with a larger footprint has a lower fuel economy requirement than a vehicle with a smaller footprint




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