[agere_contra]

fuel efficiency of about 20 kilometers a liter, or 47 miles a gallon, of gasoline.

What's that in foot-ergs per m3?

[subterfuge]

But some environmentalists are dreading the prospect of hundreds of thousands of low-cost cars hitting polluted and overcrowded roads around the world

And naturally, all of the "some" environmentalist ride donkeys or the wind to work, right?

Environmentalism, as a movement, has been hijacked by the anti-capitalist crowd. They don't like freedom and they HATE machines---unless the machines belong to them.

[goldstategop]

Liberals want to take away from Indians and Chinese the means to a better life. They'd all have us walk if they could do that here.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[marron]

Cars that get excellent gas mileage, cheap enough that poor people can afford them.

And the busy-bodies hate the very idea of them.

The permanently outraged are stuck on permanent outrage. There is no appeasing them. We have to learn to ignore them. You don’t try to decipher noise, you adjust your squelch and tune it out.

[swarthyguy]

Ooh La La, wait til the enviros figure out that all these Indians want washing machines, dryers and dishwashers.

As I’ve told (since the early 90’s) enviros who always decried the booming populations of India and China and their impact on the world environment, by denying the fruits of modern technology to women to ease the burdens of their daily chores, you are condemning women to a life of drudgery centered around household chores.

Silence.

Femininism, meet environmentalism, lol! BrainLOCK!

[AnotherUnixGeek]

But some environmentalists are dreading the prospect of hundreds of thousands of low-cost cars hitting polluted and overcrowded roads around the world in the next few years.

Wow, environmentalists dread something? How very unusual.

The fact that hundreds of thousand of people who lived in poverty and depended on bullock carts or their own feet for transportation can now achieve an enormous amount of personal freedom, independence and productivity by owning cars is something to be celebrated. Capitalism and wealth-creation work, and the people of China and India are moving into a better life.

And they're supposed to give that up to assuage Dread #4792848345 on the Environmentalist/Liberal List Of Things To Dread?

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I find it difficult to get exicited about Tatas.

Unless they are Bodacious, of course.

[Dick Bachert]

This is, indeed, TITillating news. But you need to know that the TATA Motors is run by a bunch of BOOBS and will soon go BUST.

Or, like Chrysler here a number of years ago, they’ll simply get on the government TEAT to save the TATA.

(Did I miss one?)

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[aaCharley]

The cost of Four of the US mandated Air Bags would be about the cost of the Indian car.

Thanks You, Mr. Congressman.

[pepperdog]

Hilarious! Environmentalists don’t care about the poorer economies of the world, let them walk or ride bicycles. Like Al Gore. Let them starve while we turn food into fuel for our cars. Let them die from mosquito carried disease. What a disgusting bunch of hypocrites they are. BTW they don’t have to go to India or China to see pollution, just head for the Southern border of the USA.