Posted on 01/19/2008 11:22:19 PM PST by newbie2008
Edited on 01/19/2008 11:46:42 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
To bolster support for these new rules, CAFE proponents have issued two studies that purport to show that increasing the CAFE standard to 35 miles per gallon would generate fuel savings for car owners in excess of the admittedly higher costs of automobiles; increase carmakers' profits; and generate nearly a quarter of a million U.S. jobs.
(Excerpt) Read more at brookings.edu ...
Govt. mandates are bad, but it’s absurd to contend that 35mpg can’t be achieved without enormously expensive technology and resort to tiny, unsafe, slow cars or complex gimmicky hybrid engines. Diesels can achieve that mileage right now without any sacrifice of safety or room. Go to the other FR thread on diesels, and read how the VW Jetta (hardly a flimsy econobox) get 50 mpg on the hwy. and 40 in town, and can cruise at over 100mph on the autobahn. The OP is the kind of ridiculous “anal-ysis” you can expect from the Wall St. Jumble and its crew of engineering-illiterate economists.
Psssh.
How about a 600 horsepower Hummer H3 that gets 60 miles to the gallon and runs on the grease sitting out behind your local Long John Silver’s?
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/120/motorhead-messiah.html
Specialized Sirrus
or Trek 7500 for those pesky sub-zero days.
Cheers!
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