[Colonel_Flagg]

The only way to achieve this MPG range is to build flat little cars, which now consume about 10,000 people a year. Anything less than 4,000 pounds GVW is headed into death trap category.

Bingo. And evidently none of these senators has ever lived in a state where you actually get winter, where during a storm you need all the weight and traction (read: 4WD) you can get. This vote is going to kill human beings. Bet on it.

[Beagle8U]

Without 4x4 you couldn’t go anywhere in the winter where I live.

There is no way they are going to make full sized pickups that will get 35mpg.

President Bush should veto this stupidity.