Posted on 10/01/2010 1:07:50 PM PDT by Willie Green
Oh bullsh!t... a Sears MoPed with three wheels maybe.
LLS
Jun 15, 2010
"It was only a couple of years ago that gasoline prices peaked at more than $4 a gallon. Even though prices receded, few doubt that high-priced gas could eventually be with us again. In light of that, you'd think that the landscape would be filled today with 40-mile-per-gallon cars. Well, it isn't."
"The surprise comes from a list the Environmental Protection Agency put together of the most fuel-efficient vehicles in the past 25 years. Few are from today. Most are from many years ago. For all the talk today about hybrids, electrics and greater fuel efficiency from conventional engines, the list underscores how little progress we've actually made toward weaning ourselves off oil."
"Here's what EPA's fueleconomy.gov website lists as the top 10 most fuel-efficient cars of the past 25 years:"
1. 2000 Honda Insight: 49/61/53 mpg city/highway/combined
2. 2010 Toyota Prius: 51/48/50 mpg city/highway/combined
3. 1986 Chevy Sprint: 44/53/48 mpg city/highway/combined
4. 1990-1994 Geo Metro: 43/52/47 mpg city/highway/combined
5. 1986-1987 Honda Civic CR-X: 42/51/46 mpg city/highway/combined
6. 1994-1995 Honda Civic HB: 39/50/43 mpg city/highway/combined
7. 2006-2010 Honda Civic hybrid: 40/45/42 mpg city/highway/combined
8. 1985 Pontiac Firefly: 39/47/42 mpg city/highway/combined
9. 1985 Suzuki SA310: 39/47/42 mpg city/highway/combined
10. 2010 Honda Insight: 40/43/41 mpg city/highway/combined
LOL - good one
Yeah...Hussein and Browner just SNAP their fingers and everything is done!!!!
Such laws will be an economic disaster. A report on green.autoblog.com was about a long test trip in a Chevy Volt that averaged 36.5 mpg.
I just returned from a trip in a 2002 5 speed Saturn that got 41 mpg on the highway.
Forcing the industry to get 50% better mileage will only be disruptive. It will be an economic disaster for American car buyers and especially for American workers in the auto industry. The unintended consequences will all be severe and destructive of wealth and liberty.
“Interior volume is the ultimate luxury.”....
Very nice!....Must drive libtards whacko when it rolls by their bicycle!
That is to funny!.....The test dummy won’t even get in it!
Leaving aside trumped-up “mileage” figures for plug-in hybrids, those kind of mileage figures are pretty much impossible to achieve for any sort of gasoline-powered car that anyone would actually want to drive. Could you make a car that can get 50-60 mpg? Sure. But it would have to be extremely light, probably to the point of sacrificing passenger safety, or use huge amounts of expensive composites and lightweight alloys (and forget about loading it down with 1,000 lbs of batteries for plug-in hybrid use). And have a small frontal area. And probably be pretty gutless. Even with diesels this would be hard to reach in all but pretty small cars, especially with the emissions standards that the government also wants to achieve.
The older I get - the denser I get. [:>)
Excellent.
Why not just crank the CAFE standard up to 100 MPG?
Between that and screwing up the security lines at airports bad enough they can force us ALL on to trains.
Funny how the facts don’t seem to matter to the Greenies, eh?
I also drive 2 older vehicles.
Get lots of comments like you got. Even had a neighbor tell me he would pay me $1000 to ‘put my 1979 Buick staion wagon out of it’s misery”. I told him- SURE- Just as soon as you can find me a replacement car for $1000.
Last time he mentioned it.
Parts are cheaper & easier to install. I can still do all my own light maintenance, like change oil & all filters & spark plugs. When it gets beyond my abilities, local mechanic does stuff for me & nothing is computerized & out of sight expensive.
When I stop seeing police SUV’s pulling people over and stop seeing Tahoe Government vehicles then maybe I’ll consider driving something more efficient, until then they must lead by example.
What about businesses, farms and ranches that depend on vehicles to haul equipment? What’s the towing capacity for a Chevy Volt?
I got the joke Green.
:-)
Many thousands of Americans will die every year because of this Fascistic diktat from the Fuhrer Obama.
I figured out the solution long ago, just put double sized tires and rims on the rear of a vehicle and it will always be rolling downhill. You don’t even need to crank the engine until you need to back up. If you can’t fit tires that big under the fenders just put tiny ones on the front, it will work the same, works on front or rear drive, no difference.
I’m still working on how to keep the speed down to a safe range.
“A VW Jetta diesel already gets about 30/40 mpg”
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I hope that’s in town! Volkswagen had a diesel rabbit thirty five years ago that got 51 mpg on the road.
The Jetta's bigger and heavier, and has a 2.0l engine. More like your old Rabbit is the VW Fox diesel, which with the 1.4l engine can get over 60mpg highway.
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