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2009-01-26 Science & Technology
In the 35 MPG Future, Which Cars Make the Cut?
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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-01-26 16:09|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11135 views ]  Top

#1 This is just what our struggling auto makers need right now. Good job, Baracko. Moron.
Posted by Parabellum 2009-01-26 16:25||   2009-01-26 16:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Measure efficiencies in Imperial gallons and you're in.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-01-26 16:30||   2009-01-26 16:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Which flying cars make the cut?
Posted by tu3031 2009-01-26 16:32||   2009-01-26 16:32|| Front Page Top

#4 Screw this. I'm taking up hang gliding.
Posted by DarthVader 2009-01-26 16:35||   2009-01-26 16:35|| Front Page Top

#5 I look forward to seeing our elected officials driving around in these type of cars too, and leading by example...
Posted by Francis 2009-01-26 16:37||   2009-01-26 16:37|| Front Page Top

#6 im not a fan of mandates, I prefer price based mechanisms.

But really, does it make sense to judge what will be available in 2020 by looking at cars that make the cut in 2009? I mean even without the mandate one expects cars to get better mileage in the future.
Posted by liberalhawk 2009-01-26 16:50||   2009-01-26 16:50|| Front Page Top

#7 LH, do you know what the time lag is for bringing a major new technology to market in the automotive world? 10 years ain't all that long especially when you're going broke now.
Posted by AlanC 2009-01-26 16:54||   2009-01-26 16:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Darth - Check out the pic at "Darth Vader trades in StarDestroyer for Ariel Atom) - makes a good background.
Posted by CrazyFool 2009-01-26 17:09||   2009-01-26 17:09|| Front Page Top

#9 Which flying cars make the cut?

The ones made by Greg Lemond's pa and ma.
Posted by JFM">JFM  2009-01-26 17:48||   2009-01-26 17:48|| Front Page Top

#10 I believe these proposed standards only apply to new cars. I, for one, intend to drive nothing but 60's muscle cars until the day I die.
Posted by spiffo 2009-01-26 18:02||   2009-01-26 18:02|| Front Page Top

#11 How long before it becomes illegal to modify a cars engine or suspension in way? It's gonna happen someday.
Posted by Cheaderhead 2009-01-26 18:09||   2009-01-26 18:09|| Front Page Top

#12 This has Steve Chu's fingerprints all over it. In the Google Tech vid that's all over the 'net he clearly states that this sort of regulation has no negative impact because "everyone will just adapt because they know it's coming."

Good luck.
Posted by AzCat 2009-01-26 18:29||   2009-01-26 18:29|| Front Page Top

#13 if you remove all the safety features (airbags, bumpers, seatbelts), all weight-carrying capacity (two seats, no trunk), put an electric 35 mph -capable electric engine, there you go! A car nobody wants. But that's the point, isn't it? Into the bio-diesel bus, proles!
Posted by Frank G 2009-01-26 19:09||   2009-01-26 19:09|| Front Page Top

#14 NASCAR > And the YUGO takes it.
Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-01-26 19:49||   2009-01-26 19:49|| Front Page Top

#15 I would never fit in something like that.
It would require drastic countermeasures that the Demoidiots would not like.
Posted by 3dc 2009-01-26 20:10||   2009-01-26 20:10|| Front Page Top

#16 besides the pot holes in this nation are by in large bigger than that POS.
Posted by 3dc 2009-01-26 20:11||   2009-01-26 20:11|| Front Page Top

#17 looks like a wheel-chair w/a hood...
Posted by Herman Flineck aka Broadhead6 2009-01-26 20:17||   2009-01-26 20:17|| Front Page Top

#18 well, by the size of the thing, it would be a form of contraception for future dems...
Posted by Herman Flineck aka Broadhead6 2009-01-26 20:18||   2009-01-26 20:18|| Front Page Top

#19 BMW, Mercedes and Lexus flout the current EPA rules as it is. They get whacked with gas-guzzler taxes, they pass those along to their customers who are apparently willing to pay, and everyone is happy. Lexus isn't having problems selling cars, at least in good times, and you aren't going to see a 35 mpg Lexus anytime soon.

But GM, Ford and Chrysler can't do that because the political fallout would kill them (assuming the UAW doesn't kill them first). No way any of them can say 'screw you guys, we're making muscle cars and we'll just pass the gas guzzler tax along'.

This is law making by wish: 'oh, I wish cars would get better mileage' and presto, a new law.
Posted by Steve White 2009-01-26 20:29||   2009-01-26 20:29|| Front Page Top

#20 at least it doesn't apply to...drinks ready? F-150's!
Posted by Frank G 2009-01-26 20:33||   2009-01-26 20:33|| Front Page Top

#21 Lexus is built by Toyota. Prius is built by Toyota. The Toyota fleet CAFE is fine.
Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-01-26 20:51||   2009-01-26 20:51|| Front Page Top

#22 Poor Babys cant drive your Pickups, Suburbans, and Hummers around anymore.... I guess you'll figure out some other way to give the OPEC nations all our money
Posted by Not A Jingoistic Ass 2009-01-26 22:37||   2009-01-26 22:37|| Front Page Top

#23 Ya' got the ASS part right, #22 Jingo
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2009-01-26 22:40|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2009-01-26 22:40|| Front Page Top

#24 Obama's new Caddy gets 8MPG. Being a man of the people and all, I'm sure he'll be happy to hear your complaint, Jingoistic Ass...
Posted by tu3031 2009-01-26 22:51||   2009-01-26 22:51|| Front Page Top

#25 LOL - our Jingo troll, still gets the short bus home, when Mom's on the street working to pay that dialup bill.

One word, puppy: Fre3cr3ditr3port.com...
should enough to see a two-figure number, eh?
Posted by Frank G 2009-01-26 23:01||   2009-01-26 23:01|| Front Page Top

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