U.S. Eyeing 56.2 MPG Cars By 2025

JOSH MITCHELL and SHARON TERLEP ^ | 6/26/11

[fabian]

This is a bunch of bs...the automakers already know how vaporization technology can get over 100 mpg’s and have for sometime now. Maybe Obama does not know that...I the auto makers are too tied at the hip with the oil companies to decrease their profits by at least 3x. Charles Pogue in Canada actually got 205 mpg’s in a large sedan...the oil stock dropped at verified news of that...was in the 30’s. THey took care of him...made him a millionaire and shelved the product. Before anyone cries conspiracy nut...do some research first!

[Pontiac]

This Administration operates on Magical Thinking.

The reality is that it will force the auto makers to sell more cars that no one wants which means selling them at a loss or with huge government subsidies.

Cars that can get that mileage that high will be tiny little boxes; essentially fully enclosed motorcycles.

The cars will be death traps and another drain on the public coffers because they will be very expensive to produce for what they offer the consumer and the government will have to subsidies them to make them sellable just like the Volt.

One thing that such a car will not be is a highbred. A car that gets that kind of mileage will not be dragging around a heavy battery. As you say the Obama administration has not repealed the laws of physics (yet).

[Pontiac]

EXCELLENT

[Steven Tyler]

Scottie correctly stated “I canna change the Laws of Physics”

[Chode]

it's a hammer bashing something, but i can't figure it out either... i've reversed the colors, changed colors and still can't make it out

[Lady Jag]

Yeah, right.

[SF_Redux]

drilling and using OUR OWN DAMN OIL is what is and will be popular ......... anyday

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They know it's impossible.

They want to force us all onto their "public transportation" systems where Eric Holder's people can have access to us and give us our just desserts.

[Pontiac]

They want to force us all onto their "public transportation"

If they actually succeeded in doing this I think the general public would change their mind about the constitutionality of concealed carry of firearms.

And of course if the general population changed their mind the Dims would suddenly have always been in favor of CCW.

[Milton Miteybad]

It's a spendthrift socialist hammer smashing your children's piggy bank. The government, in its usual all-consuming spending frenzy, is reaching out across the generations to steal what little savings your children may have, only to blow it on current consumption, heedless of the lack of wisdom or fairness inherent in said theft.

That's what it looks like to me, anyway.

[JimC214]

It looks like a piggy bank.

[VideoDoctor]

I thought we were ALL going to be driving Volts and gas would be outlawed by them? /sarc

[JimC214]

Mythbusters busted that as a myth. Unless you think they work for the “Government”?

[Mr. Silverback]

U.S. Eyeing 56.2 MPG Cars By 2025

Sure,and I'm eyeing being the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers.

[Delta 21]

100 mpg carburetor bump.

[fabian]

Mythbusters is incorrect..do some research. Just because it was on tv does not make it right! come on now...

[dr huer]

Use the ancient greek unit of distance, the stadium which is 1/10 mile. Now we get 562 stadia per gallon.
Dr Huer

[hattend]

It’s kind of disgusting that a president in 2011 can say what we HAVE to have 14 years down the road. Technology will take care of things, O’Bama, without your mandates.

FUBO

and why not...

FUJM

[hattend]

It’s a piggy bank

[Seizethecarp]

“Obama’s nanny state continues the attack on the private sector in the middle of a financial depression. This escalation of the war on private transportation is another nail in the coffin of the auto industry. All of this is a bone thrown to the Green Communist Party which is a major constituent of the Democrats and Obama.”

...and wealth destruction, too as all of the factory tooling, investment in marketing brands and dealer infrastructure to support large, safe, comfortable vehicles is being eradicated before the investment can be amortized over planned future sales.

Meanwhile we are treated to Government Motors’ Cadillac ads for their “New American Standard for the World,” the 557 HP CTS-V which gets 12 mpg with its ground-breaking feature being...wait for it...windshield wipers which don't lift of the windshield at 190 MPH! Does Obama and his Greenie gang know about this?

Of course, the team that developed the vehicle was disbanded when Obama took over, so there will be no follow-on development for the “new standard” of performance. The next GM vehicle with windshield wipers that don't lift off the glass at 190 mph will be...never!

The new GM president appointed by the Obama and UAW packed board last week began begging for a huge gasoline tax to force consumers to consider trading in their big, comfortable cars and trucks for the eco-clown cars GM is now tooling up to build under Obama mandates. Good luck!