Higher fuel efficiency won’t save the planet
There must be something in the water down there in the Post Dispatch building. Seldom have I seen your paper so out of touch with reality.
39 mile per gallon cars? Easy, just dust off that 90 mpg carburetor the oil companies have been hiding from us and start making them. Reality check: These standards will require a vast industry changeover to smaller, more expensive vehicles. Even if car buyers embraced smaller cars (which they have never done), it would take decades for this to realistically impact the CO2 emissions or the fuel usage of an entire nation of automobiles.
More likely, we will see consumers holding on to their cherished, American sized vehicles for far longer, at least until a new, realistic leadership takes charge again.
If the Post Dispatch continues to print fodder like this, I think they might be the ones following Rick Wagoner out the door.
Eric Cromer
Chesterfield
Kind of funny Market Place editorial tonight. Something like “for years auto-companies claimed that higher milage standards would bancrupt them; Obama reversed it and got the bancruptcy off of the table first”.
If we really want to affect CO2 lets just all stop breathing and keep the cows from farting!
What a scam!
Why is this so hard to believe? i don’t actually believe humans are causing global warming, i think its natural. But i am tired of paying for gas. We have cars that run on air, search Tata? motors, and in the early 1900s, there were more electric cars on the road than gasoline. Here is where the conspiracy comes in, once there is a resource where lots of money could be had, anything and everything will be done to ensure that no one puts you out of business. Its not really a conspiracy, its called competing in a global market. The oil companies do control everything, b/c they have power and money. Think ameren sucks too? Search Nikola Tesla and how he sent electricity from towers to homes: for free.
Hey duh, do you pay for bottled water?
Running a car on air? Compressed air, compressed by what?
Our existing ICE-engine cars have always run on air - mixed w/ gasoline. They don’t have to carry the load of that air with them, and also dump their gasoline load as they consume it. You can’t do that w/ batteries.
Superdave- no i don’t pay for bottle water, that’s a county person thing, i am from the city. Why do you ask?
Egoist- The air is filled from a compressor, just like the ones you see at a gas station or may have at home. I don’t see your point about dumping gas while you drive and how w/ batteries, that’s a defect.
Perhaps higher fuel efficiency WON’T save the planet ….. but it couldn’t hurt.
“Even if car buyers embraced smaller cars (which they have never done)”
This is wrong. After the gas crunch in the 70s, we couldn’t get enough smaller cars.
Any why is your tone so arrogant? You acted like they suggested killing all the first born males. Get some perspective.
Yeah, that’s why the auto industry is supporting Obama’s plan.
If the folks want to hold on to their “american sized” cars, they ain’t helping detroit. Detroit wants you to buy a new car.
this letter is so silly. Detroit is failing because it isn’t providig the more fuel efficient cars that Americans are demanding. Ast Toyota and Honda how they’re doing compared to the big 3. Didn’t Toyota take over as the #1 car maker in the world? Why is that?
Detroit for years ignored what the American people wanted and that is why they failed. Now that they are facing reality, they will start making products that will sell…or you can drive by your locoal chrysler or dodge dealer that just closed down. Maybe they have some left over
“american sized” cars you believe people still want.
The big 3 produced the exact cars Americans wanted. right now, today, Ford’s best selling vehicle is the F-150 pickup, and GM’s best seller is the Silverado truck. The only thing we know for sure about Obama Motors’ cars, is that many, many, more people will die in these vehicles because as they are forced to be more fuel efficient, they are forced to be lighter. Thus, less protection for passengers, more business for morticians.