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Hybrids Beware? EPA Revises Mileage Standards
Shivetya writes "The federal Environmental Protection Agency announced a new system for determining the fuel economy of many cars and trucks. Hardest hit will be hybrids as all-electric driving is not considered. At the same time, many medium-duty vehicles will get rated, but not have to be published until 2011 This move to more realistic ratings will severely reduce the high numbers some cars have posted."
I have a 1995 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera. When I bought the car a year and a half ago, I was curious about the fuel economy. Most of my drive to work is on the highway, and over a period of a week I tracked miles driven and fuel consumed. My decade old car gets 32 miles per gallon. I find it stupid that many cars today brag about that kind of fuel economy on the highway. You would think that in a ten year stretch engines and cars would have become significantly more efficient - even the non-hybrid models.
On a totally unrelated note: SouthPark teaches us that hybrid cars may not contribute to smog, but they do produce a hell of a lot of smug.
Love sees no species.
Because they aren't? What kind of question is this?
Now, people in the most environmentally-conscious state in the US, California, are currently unable to purchase a diesel car in California. They have to go out of state and bring them back, because California is not permitting the sale of Diesels because their emissions are too nasty on ordinary diesel fuel. This is supposed to change either next year or in 2008, I forget which, because California will mandate that all diesel fuel must be low-sulfur.
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Personnaly I am sort of happy to see GM get thier lunch eaten.
So am I. They are bitching about the changes, but honestly if they haven't seen this coming for many many years, they deserve to lose. And I love my 2007 Toyota... American cars are crap anyway. The only people who will tell you different are the "USA #1 Buy American Be a Patriot" fan-boys. I've always had trouble with BRAND NEW American cars - Ford, Chevrolet, GM. Never with Japanese - Honda, Nissan, Toyota. Poor GM, I feel sooo sorry.
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