Do you like the Bush/Automaker plan, that if we give them $40B they will start building fuel efficient cars???

Question

What a stroke of Engineering genius. If we pay them they will build economic cars like VW and Audi

Audi won the LeMans race with the new diesel techonology

AFAIK the VW Polo is still blocked by the DOT because a car that gets 75,MPG might be harmful to the environment.

Answer 1

Conversely, we could emplace an efficiency surcharge which would disfavor inefficient vehicles.

Answer 2

That's an awful idea...why would you want to give that much money to automobile manufacturers?  Shouldn't the incentive of making money in the free market be enough?  Now we have to start paying car manufactures to work?  No...that's a huge waste of money and hardly a trait of capitalism.