[Paladin2]

Banning Automatic Transmissions would go a long way to improving Fuel Economy.

So would making Urban Utopia peeps not be able to own a vehicle.

[Moorings]

Fuel economy laws that Obama and the democrats set up means that all the vehicles that have anything like a V6 engine or above is only affordable by the rich people.

Lets put V4 engines on the luxury cars and the large SUV's driven by leading liberals, and then we can talk about the cars that regular people drive.

[Hostage]

> "Automakers will be a lot better off if they aren’t forced to sell so many underpowered, less safe, undersized vehicles, many of which nobody wants to buy."

POTUS should have Wheeler emphasize SAFETY FIRST!

Lively discussion from yesterday here on the same subject and SAFETY:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3676103/posts

[meyer]

I think that we would see a more realistic overall improvement I fuel economy by coordinating traffic lights and setting up roads to minimize stop-and-go driving. If I drive my trick at a steady 45-50 mph, I’m seeing around 26-28 mpg. Highway driving at 75 mph brings it down to about 22,and stop/go city driving drops to 17.5-19.5 depending on conditions.

This is with a full sized pickup truck.