Along about 2016, it will be harder and more expensive to buy a new full-sized pickup truck than an Aston Martin. Those big pickups... even with a hybrid powertrain... get about 20-21 MPG. The manufacturers have to sell a lot of tiny trucks to offset each full-sized trucks, so there will be a lottery to buy the big ones. What's a nation to do?
Well, here is an idea for an enterprising corporation. For the next few years, buy up as many full-size pickups as possible. The automobile companies will give you a great fleet discount. Park these babies all over the U.S. in lots previously owned by Chrysler and GM dealers who were given the heave-ho because they ... they just were, so forget the explanation.
Anyway, get a bunch of illegal aliens to rev-up the trucks and drive them a mile or two each month (under the supervision of an off-duty border agent). Then wait until 2016 and sell them as EXTREMELY LOW-MILEAGE, VINTAGE TRUCKS! You'll be able to price them at exactly what an impossible-to-obtain full-size 2016 model sells for, which will be significantly higher than you paid for those older trucks. And because they are USED TRUCKS, those nasty mandate MPGs don't matter.
That's better than investing in vaporware (Cap and Trade credits).
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