So... $10 gets me LESS than a quarter tank in my foreign model p'up now. Hrm. Regular is $2.48 a gallon at the discount place this morning.
When are we going to get serious about fuel efficiency? Now the majority of Japanese and German name plate (you can't say "made" anymore - they are building VWs, Hondas, Toyotas, etc in North America and "Detroit Big Three" in Mexico and Canada) have fuel milage in the mid to high 20s.
As a nation we have decided the solution is to get more oil in designated Wildlife Refuges, rather than compelling more efficiency from automakers, rather than compelling the simple aligning of SUV fleets to the standards applied to passenger cars. Have you wondered why manufacturers are going to having THREE or FOUR SUV variants plus 4 door Pickups with leather and captain's seating, and DVD players? because they don't need to meet the same fuel standards as CARS and they don't count against the nameplate's average fuel effiency.
GM is crushing electric cars claiming no market while more prosepctive owners than cars offer millions to buy the remaining inventory.
The US Government has an obligation to preserve the blessings of this great nation for posterity. With fuel standards and priorities, they are failing miserably in this task.
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