fuel economy
At 10 years old, my car is averaging between 28.6 and 30.9 miles to the gallon, depending on how I drive, how much cargo I have, tire inflation, how recently I've had service.
This year, car makers are bragging about fabulous fuel economies of 17 to 27 mpg.
Naw, I don't think so. That's so ten years ago.
The Zap! SmartCar (electric) gets 40 mpg. (Zap stands for "Zero Air Pollution.")
The Toyota Prius gets about 45, and more if you drive the speed limit everywhere you go.
All I want to say is that our automakers are capable of producing vehicles with greater fuel economy right now. They just aren't.
You don't have to take my word for it. Check out www dot fueleconomy dot gov to see what sucky gas mileage our cars are getting. It's a shame and it's a sham.
There's no excuse for every car in America to not be getting a minimum of 30 mpg.
We have the technology to get 60, even 80 miles to the gallon.
But we steadfastly refuse to employ it. Drive by our local Ford dealership, witness the plethora of big, honking trucks and ask yourself how they can be so blind to the price of gas and all the sinister Bushian skullduggery of the past two-plus decades.
You'd think we'd be wising up.
'fraid not.
Why not?
posted by Jean @ 8:48 AM
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5 Comments:
Seriously, why aren't people seeing it?
I'll tell you why not... they are all brainwashed to believe whatever they hear on TV. If Oprah Winfrey told Americans that eating your own feces was good for you, people would actually try it. We are STUPID and LAZY and EASILY LED ASTRAY. Folks tend to take everything they hear as fact, no matter how bloody ridiculous it is.
But hybrid technology paves the way for plug-in hybrid technology which paves the way for all-electric increase miles per gallon, fuel
saver, increase gas mileagevehicles.Still, hybrids run on gasoline, which is not an alternative to gasoline no matter
I had a beautiful response written but I guess this one will have to do...
You are on the right track...but you are also missing the other reality. The Gas mileage is staying the same, but the engine specs are going up. For example all of the cars I have had from 1989 - 2006 all have roughly the same gas mileage. But the one in 1989 only had 50 horsepower, where my current car has 160 horsepower. So that is a big difference in technology. There is also a difference in weight. Where my current car weighs more than a 50s giant Cadillac but it roughly half its size. Its all that safety equipment and standards that have to be built into the car. This is why the companies are having trouble putting anything smaller than a 100 horsepower engine into a car, because the strain on the engine would have a negative effect on the gas mileage. The companies are responding to the public in the power sense, but the gas mileage sense seems to be lacking.
So there are my two cents...compiled from my years of reading car magazines and other online articles.
and btw! Hi it is Joe, I do stop by every once in a while...hope things are going well :)
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