Gasoline is the largest one, because it is apart of an economic multiplier that impacts almost everything have and do from cars to food prices to everything we buy. You can't get 100 mpg in a metal heavy car. You need X amount of energy, to move Y amount of weight, Z distance. Some say regulations or taxes by our government make econo-cars unaffordable to make. First you said in another post we are not gouged, because other nations pay a ton more for gas.
Of course auto makers have means to make high mileage cars. I would take a 300M over almost anything Japan has ever offered. I may not agree with him on all his policies. On a car with this many miles assuming it has been serviced and is running perfectly with no problems expect around 27 city and 30 highway on an automatic and 33 city and 36 highway on a manual transmission equipped car. My friend is a cop and loves to do just that. But I completely agree about the banana or other items you can find anywhere. You must have a lobbyist in your back pocket too right? My car gets 44 mpg on the highway, and has high h.
Secondly, I am not advocating price subsidies on everything. Mom-n-pop shops would never have the money to be able to get government approval to open. Until then they will only build what they can make money on and sell. The entire Bush and Cheney families have long been connected to Big Oil, and that is whom got them elected in the first place. Not everyone wants a cheap high gas mileage slug mobile.
They all need a new and fresh alternative to their failed leadership that got them in this situation in the first place. If you support government taking more control over markets. No, there are no greedy politicians. As for the other scandals, there aren't many presidents who don't have scandals. The Japanese auto makers are far smarter than the dopey American companies because Japan build high mpg cars that people want to own. Save a few dollars and watch more planes fly into buildings, or dirty bombs go off in our subways. I also said that it's a free market and that's the way it should be.
Since you don't bother to read my posts, much less understand them, I will close this thread with this point which you will not understand, either. When the scales are not balanced, and are tilted too far on one side or the other, there has to be a means to right that imbalance. If they wanted that, we'd be getting the oil in our own back yard! Government wants people to not be able to afford to drive. It has worked for Honda and Toyota. The police state will be next, that is if their total slavery plan doesn't pan out.
Do you not realize that greed is exactly what's motivating governments control over the free market? I'm referring to electronics and furniture, that sort of thing. Does no one teach logical thinking anymore? It has tank averages in the upper 60's in the winter and upper 70's in the summer. How about this: In 1995 Al Gore recommended that the Elk Hills in central California, once a federally protected historic land, be sold. You can look back at vehicles and the engines that went through the smog-revolution, and see clearly where power and fuel efficiency dropped as more emission control were added on. Oh are they making massive profits? There are small businesses all over the place where I live.
They are limited to what mpg they can get. But I fully admit that clinton-gore had their own discrepancies. If they passed that cost onto the customer, no one would buy it. The only difference is that I get health care from the gov't because I'm in the military. Get a true 36 mpg on interstate doing a sustained 75 mph. Clearly your dumb school didn't teach you history, or you'd know that. Although they pull smoothly enough in the middle gears, they fail to exhibit much overall gusto—especially with automatic transmissions.
We Americans should have been using Hydrogen, Natural gas, or even straight electric powered vehicals for the last 15 or more years. You can't have it both ways. If we didn't, then Big Oil could do whatever they want, and get away with it. Every time it's tried it causes problems. The public killed the electric car. That higher fuel price we pay at the pump or when we buy a bus ticket is passed on to the consumer. It would be government controlled.
As soon as it becomes profitable, you'll see them pour effort into them. Most cars use a one-size-fits-all approach to grill inlet design with a grill opening sized for the worst case cooling scenario. You need to get a clue, and take a look around you sometime. Either works for the gov or is an idiot Republican that loves to swing on Rush Limbaughs nut sack1 Is that true? That needs to happen now, because there is price-gouging going on right now, and has been for years because our government has been asleep at the wheel. I want them all to. People don't like driving slugs. Instead of being told the truth in the first place that just taking an inexpensive pill will solve the problem, your greedy doctor and hospital just lied to you and kept the truth from you.
Ran better with higher octane, for real. This is why they are not selling many cars these days, and why the Japanese car companies are. Gas mileage was great, but I'll never drive such a slug of a car again. You have hundreds of different stores you can shop at, as well as hundreds of different restaurants to eat at. Just where do you think they are getting this from? You have no point, you're just stuck on greed yourself.