“Any new aircraft designs that sell to that market will need to be designed around the volume of that market, not the worldwide market, plus a few sales to novelty seekers elsewhere.”
That is another interesting statement. Our efficient lightweight aircraft came out of design code CS-VLA. Some time later the US launched the LSA regs which were sufficiently similar that our VLA’s sold as LSA in numbers in the US. Now that is the impression we get from mags like Flyer. Are you saying this is not the case?
Edited to add, how much has your fuel gone up in the last year?
Rod1