Sorry to say it, but we live in a fascist system - where private industry works with government and its cronies to promote collectivist political schemes
Yes, this is entirely happening because the manufacturers are aware of the insanity the EPA is forcing on the country, and are responding to it. The general public doesn’t have a clue, in part because no one in the mockingbird fake news is telling them about what is happening. The whole thing will be a train wreck. And it is intentional and avoidable.