In the early Seventies, the United States Congress mandated cleaner burning automobile engines and set requirements for automobile safety. The Japanese have been prepared with automobiles that met the requirements; the Americans weren’t. Then in 1973, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries reduce steeply on exports, gasoline prices rose steeply, and Americans needed to wait in long traces at fuel stations because of gasoline shortages. Since the Twenties, automobile producers knew that Americans most well-liked big automobiles over small ones. A forty-miles-per-gallon automobile, the Crassly Hotshot, had been produced in the Forties but had disappeared because of poor gross sales. In 1925, the final strong problem to the interior combustion engine ended when the versatile Stanley Steamer ceased being manufactured. Journalists had been predicting the “saturation” of the car market for over a decade, claiming automobile gross sales needed to decline as quickly as everybody who wished a automotive had a automotive; they had long been incorrect.

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