Originally Posted by pascal

I think Ford is looking ahead and try to guess how far our politician ******** are gonna take the BS carbon foot print notion...
Obama, as good Socialist, might impose tax on us on engines past a certain displacement, like it is in Europe.

It might happen, it might not, but Ford has to anticipate the idiocy of DC.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's the reason why they decided to drop the modular mills.
They're prolly developing better gas mileage engines that could work on natural gas as well, who knows...