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  • Posted By: dougmal1 @ 04/27/2008 3:12:25 PM

    All the auto makers should have to do is bring there diesel engines that almost all of them make in europe over here. there are diesel cars that aren't slow getting 70MPG. Just look at what's happening in endurance racing all the gas powered cars are getting their asses kicked by diesels that are more powerful and way more fuel efficient. Diesel is the solution not gas.

  • Posted By: Hankle @ 04/27/2008 1:09:56 PM

    Who are we trying to Break$$- The working class well somebody needs to do something as I am not looking for a Car Payment, Can we get a BETTER choice of President Elect Characters, thats all they truley are. We the People need a real person not a Puppet for President, Since we are Talking Puppets Our present President is just getting richer by the Tankful (OIL Barron), Lets just send a couple of our TOMAHAWK Cruise missiles into OPEC and see if we can't slow them down. sounds like good politics to me-Hank

    • Posted By: flyinv55 @ 04/27/2008 2:37:15 PM

      This is a part of the big plan..... I owned a Geo Metro and got great mileage, cheap parts and easy to work on, if everyone drove Geo Metros the government couldnt collect as many taxes and the oil barons in charge of this country would lose their cash flow. First they set EPA standards so high that most U.S. refineries had to close down. Then they set safety standards of vehicles so high that they could stop importing cars like the Geo Metro and the motors that power them. We cant vote in anyone decent enough to care for the average American because the voting system is rigged by big money. I have been driving small cars for years to try to not give my hard earned money to the oil barons and their government, raised kids, took them to their sports activities and never had an issue, only to watch others buy as large of a gas hog as they need to keep up with the Joneses. Personally I have taken to motorcycles and carpoolingnow, works for me, go ahead and raise the gas prices, I'll always find a way to beat them.

  • Posted By: norskie @ 04/27/2008 1:03:59 PM

    I drove Geo Metros for years. I got up to 63 miles to the gallon. They quite making these gas misers a few years back. They where incredibly cheap to drive not only at the pumps but everything. Only had three cylinders. Tires cheap. Drove them over 200,000 miles with minimal maintanece. So the 50+ mpg car has come and gone in America.

  • Posted By: sy27295 @ 04/27/2008 11:54:40 AM

    I think one of the reasons is that the cars are not done aerodynamically. We can fix this easily. All we have to do is to make the Highway Tests by EPA more realistic. They are totally biased to hide the fact that the Government wants to help out the guys at Detroit by not doing a good job on tests.
    Here is a great article about the details: http://www.HighwayGlider.com/faq.asp

  • Posted By: feedupwithgas @ 04/27/2008 11:04:49 AM

    hi yes 50 mpg would be nice but only people with a lot of money can bye them .cars with the best safty rating an the ones that get 30 to 40 mpg are priced out of most peoples price range it look to me that its a rich mans world an the ones making 10 to 20 dollars an hour are just left out try an raise 2 kids on that an keep gas in the car an all the outher stuff the goverment say we have to have there is just nothing left out of your pay jeffrey s harris

  • Posted By: realestk@aol.com @ 04/27/2008 11:04:12 AM

    The EPA is outdated.Too many buracrats driviving our Country into the ground. Pun not intended. We in America,which is now a secondary Country with a fair economy and need to immediately change the EPA to a R&D PLATFORM with a stimulous pacgage for new deveopment in alternative fuels.Keeping the BIG AUTOMAKERS OUT OF THIS PLATFORM. The present EPA laws are governed by bureaucrats that have killed our economy. This is a repeat of the 80's gas crisis and I will never lay blame on anyone but our lazy
    attitude of not not see it coming again.

  • Posted By: comanche72 @ 04/27/2008 10:18:40 AM

    Well first of all, the european cars dont have all the epa stuff on them. The smart car gets 60 mpg in europe and 43 here.

  • Posted By: cajunshogun @ 04/27/2008 9:36:28 AM

    I recently purchased a Toyota Avalon for my wife. We looked at a Camry hybrid. The ride was not comparable to the Avalon. The extra cost for a hybrid Camry vs a regular Camry was substantial. When you calculate the gas savings we would have had to keep that car for 12 yrs to justify the extra expense using a gas price of $3.25 a gallon

  • Posted By: baggmann @ 04/27/2008 9:33:33 AM

    Not only was there the technology 10- 15 years ago for a 100 mpg engine ,but somewhere out there exists a company called BATT (BAT was there ticker symbol on the stock market)I used to own stok in this company .they produced small efficient batteries for Hybrid and electric cars some 15 - 20 years ago.What was even more amazing was they developed an engine that got over 100 mpg and invited all of the big three to see it run and possibly sell it to them ,supposedly only Ford showed up and soon after that ,they faded from the stock market and no one knows what happened to their engine or company!.Sounds like some body made someone an offer they couldn't refuse.

  • Posted By: cajunshogun @ 04/27/2008 9:27:06 AM

    I am all for higher mpg's in our vehicles but Americans are size wise much bigger as in taller and heavier than our Asian brethren. I am 6'6" and weigh in at 290 lbs. I have had two neck surgeries for ruptured disc. How many of these small uncomfortable imports do you think I can get into comfortably? None. Not even there smaller pickup trucks work. It takes a full size vehicle for me to get comfortable. Americans are by generation growing taller and yes obesity is an issue also but just our height is enough to warrant larger vehicles.

  • Posted By: GSPsRGR8 @ 04/27/2008 9:02:09 AM

    In the early 80's my husband's Uncle took his Ford 150 pick up truck, fine tuned it and added a gas heater and acheived 75 miles per gal on the highway. His idea to produce this idea was killed when 4 men in black suits came to house and told him he was selling the idea to them only. He felt he had to choice and signed the papers. The basic engine on the SUV's today can get many more miles than the manufaccturers allow, they are sold DETUNED, all it takes is to tune them up, added a gas heater to allow the gas to combust more efficently and we'd all be saving. The fact is American's do want to save on gas money, but auto makers won't allow us, and neither will the government. The government doesn't want us to save gas, they more that is sold the more tax they collect. All of this is a big ol scam. The middle and low wage people are the victim's of the scam. It doesn't matter to the rich.

    • Posted By: rutbuster1 @ 04/27/2008 9:26:10 AM

      I've got to agree with you. Back in the 80's I had a Datsun B210 that got 42 miles to a gallon. Though it was only a four cylinder, I didn't do anything to it and it got that mileage. Also, a friend of mine had a modified carburetor on a 72 Nova with a 350 in it and got 35 miles to a gallon. Car manufacturers can make more fuel effecient cars but the oil companies won't allow it. Money talks!

  • Posted By: TruckrDude1954 @ 04/27/2008 3:57:58 AM

    Maybe it's time the auto makers dug out the plans and diagrams they bought up back in the 50's & 60's from the guys that had made 100 mpg engines in full size cars. They seem to have forgotten about those papers but those of us who were here then when it happened haven't forgotten. The auto makers in conjunction with the oil companies bought these designs up and burried them from public view to push fuel consumption with gigantor size cars. The knowledge has been around longer then most of the CEO's that run these conglomorates.

  • Posted By: Knudson @ 04/24/2008 11:26:15 PM

    What about a compressed air car? They exist. They are being built in India. Why can't we buy them in the US?

  • Posted By: Knudson @ 04/24/2008 11:26:08 PM

    What about a compressed air car? They exist. They are being built in India. Why can't we buy them in the US?

  • Posted By: Knudson @ 04/24/2008 11:26:00 PM

    What about a compressed air car? They exist. They are being built in India. Why can't we buy them in the US?

  • Posted By: Knudson @ 04/24/2008 11:25:53 PM

    What about a compressed air car? They exist. They are being built in India. Why can't we buy them in the US?

  • Posted By: Knudson @ 04/24/2008 11:25:35 PM

    What about a compressed air car? They exist. They are being built in India. Why can't we buy them in the US?

  • Posted By: werpknarly @ 04/21/2008 11:19:10 PM

    we have a 97 passat diesel w/240,000 mi. we get 45mpg daily driving.. im 6ft 250#, my wife is 5-10 and theres room for us, the kids and a weeks worth of camping in the trunk. many older passats get 50+ most older jettas get 55+ thats how we GET 50MPG! - werp

  • Posted By: werpknarly @ 04/21/2008 11:18:46 PM

    we have a 97 passat diesel w/240,000 mi. we get 45mpg daily driving.. im 6ft 250#, my wife is 5-10 and theres room for us, the kids and a weeks worth of camping in the trunk. many older passats get 50+ most older jettas get 55+ thats how we GET 50MPG! - werp

  • Posted By: jlmeal @ 04/20/2008 5:42:36 PM

    We alrady have a FULLSIZED, FULLY POWERED, decked out vehicle that gets much better than 50 to 100 mpg, but as we look for funding to push this to a higher level of production, the Democrats arrive with huge tax increase plans. We will get this out for the world and we will do it America first by basing all manufacturing in the USA. Our China market can benifit from a stronger American market where Americans can earn a living.
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