Study: No savings at 62 mpg (New CAFE Standards Adds $10,000 To Price, 260,000 Jobs lost)

CNET ^ | 6/13/11

[Wuli]

Answer: None.

No surprise.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Gee, we can’t let the market decide these kinds of things, can we?

[Mr. K]

Let me build a car from scrath with my own design and reasonable safety measure (also of my own design) and I could easily design you a 50 MPG car that could move 4 people.

Add in the tons of weight and ant- pollution nonsense and you get what we got now.

[Tomato lover]

We just ordered 48cc gas motors for our bikes. They get between 100-150 MPG. Even with my husband and I both riding at the same time, Lord willing, the family gasoline expense will plummet.

We picked up a couple of pull behind child trailers we will use to carry groceries.

Very anxious to get these into operation. It is an exciting prospect to be riding again, especially as we are both in our late 60’s.

[editor-surveyor]

>> “Let me build a car from scrath with my own design and reasonable safety measure (also of my own design) and I could easily design you a 50 MPG car that could move 4 people.” <<

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The VW Rabbit diesel was doing better than that in 1977.

[anoldafvet]

We are very close to the theoretical efficiency of the Rankine cycle engine. In order to achieve 50mpg, we will indeed have to make car bodies out of rice paper. Reducing weight will be the only way to improve mileage.

It is my understanding that new cars no longer come with spare tires in order to save weight. Idiot politicians!! Why don't they just repeal the laws of physics?

[Fresh Wind]

Some new cars are coming with run-flat tires and no spare.

[saint]

I already get 62 mpg on my thirty year old Kawasaki GPz550, and it still blows away most new cars.

Only problem is my wife answering questions I didn’t ask, like “But if we both rode our bikes we’d only be collectively getting 31 mpg.”

Sheesh!

I just answered that by pretending I didn’t hear her. That’s a trick I learned from her, and often use it on liberals.

[Wuli]

“We picked up a couple of pull behind child trailers we will use to carry groceries.”

I use one (a pull-behind child trailer) with my bicycle for trips to local supermarkets - 2 of them are each just 3 miles one way, and one is only 1.5 miles one way. Since using the bike and knowing the mileage, I’m thinking that my miles-per-gallon for those trips must have been pretty lousy even in my best vehicle. At least now I get plenty of exercise.