8 states join forces to promote clean cars

Associated Press ^ | Oct 24, 2013 3:50 PM EDT | Jason Dearen

[WayneS]

Dang. I guess I better stop by the carwash on my way home.

[WayneS]

Some call them “Coal-powered Cars”

[Olog-hai]

Some of the earliest automobiles had coal-fired steam engines.

[Squawk 8888]

Around here, they’re nuclear-powered cars.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I really hate living here. Numbskulls want to use our taxpayer dollars to kill gas tax revenues for transportation. Idiots.

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[clearcarbon]

"The claim that electric cars are zero-emission is false. The are elsewhere-emission vehicles."

Cars also become low or zero emission when their owners can no longer afford to fuel them.

[GeronL]

Imagine that trash bin is a "smart car"....

any photo shoppers out there?

[the OlLine Rebel]

Can we imagine 100 years ago governments setting up gasoline shops for everyone to use?

Didn’t happen!

DO IT YOUR DAMN SELF!

[the OlLine Rebel]

Ah, a lovely ‘57 TBird!

Real cars, not the wimpy garbage today. Never mind the Stupid Cars and Piouses.

[Fresh Wind]

Oh, electric cars. I thought this was about a new entitlement whereby poor people would get free carwashes.

[longtermmemmory]

is this about zero emission cars or for these eight states to push $$$ per mile taxation?

no gas means no gas tax.

[Olog-hai]

That depends on perspective. The modern day Mustang and Camaro have much more horsepower out of small blocks than their predecessors had, and they match the big blocks—exceeding them in a lot of cases. There were also no six-cylinder engines exceeding 300 horses, as in the base Camaro and Mustang of today.

[the OlLine Rebel]

No, it’s a matter of overall. And it’s not just BHP or 0-60. Simplistic measurements from speed hogs.

Most cars in the old days were natural beasts in every department. Today most are tiny wimps which even slouch! Look at them, they don’t stand up straight! Every nose points to the ground. They themselves won’t last many impacts. They can’t carry a load, certainly not up a mountain, and are much less “practical” than these fuel-nuts imply.

There is more to a car than speed or fuel economy.

[Olog-hai]

I don’t see a 1957 Thunderbird doing too much on that list. Those were two-seater specialty cars, even back then.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Again, I said OVERALL, MOST.

[Albion Wilde]

My car is clean. I threw all the fast-food bags out of the back seat just last week.