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Originally Posted by dc_dux
So what regs would stifle the development of an electric car?
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You may be better served to do a search. Just for kicks I found one:
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COTTON DUST. In 1976, OSHA proposed a maximum permissible exposure limit of 0.2 milligrams per cubic meter, and its consultant estimated that compliance costs would be approximately $700 million per year. The standard promulgated in 1978 actually allowed for higher exposure levels in
some sectors of the textile industry, but the small changes in the standard do not fully explain the decrease in estimated compliance costs: in 1978 the estimate fell to $205 million per year. Moreover, a new study conducted in 1982, after the Reagan administration called for a review of the standard,
concluded that compliance costs were $83 million per year (Mendeloff 1988).
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http://www.epi.org/briefingpapers/bp69.pdf
No matter what estimate of the cost is used, there is agreement that there is a cost. The cost of producing goods made using cotton are reflected in every product. Perhaps they don't use cotton in the electric cars, but I bet they do somewhere in the manufacturing process.
{added} or How is this for irony - I bet they use cotton based filters/masks/reperators to protect against cotton dust.