CAFE, Congress & Automakers: How about honesty?

The technology is there

While fighting against proposed CAFE increases, a number of automakers and their alliances have claimed such increases were technologically impossible.

Once the same argument was used with hybrid cars, until the Toyota Prius proved that hypothesis wrong. Now almost every automaker is taking lithium powered hybrids incredibly seriously.

Ultimately, the current CAFE plans in Congress are technologically achievable today, let alone more than a decade from now. So, let's be honest.

The real issue isn't technology, it's cost. Is the cost of developing a new generation of automobiles worth the end of foreign oil dependency, for example? Is it worth it for Congress, consumers and automakers to come together to achieve a common goal?