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| Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply... |
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RaeMorrill wrote:
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The shame is we know the technology exists to make cars get better
mileage, why don't they do it?
Probably for the same reason all the car companies killed their electric
car programs, had every body return the cars (that were available by
lease only) and destroyed them.
Go read about the documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car?" and you
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:47 pm |
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Yes, and the bastrados at GM now promote "We're trying to figure out an
electric car" now. Well guess what jugheads you already had one in the 70s
and with pressure from big oil you destroyed it.
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Sue -- Firefighter mom -- still rabid UW DAWG fan!
"Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to reply" <samhill at (no spam) TRASHsonic.net> wrote in
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Quote: RaeMorrill wrote:
The shame is we know the technology exists to make cars get better
mileage, why don't they do it?
Probably for the same reason all the car companies killed their electric
car programs, had every body return the cars (that were available by lease
only) and destroyed them.
Go read about the documentary, "Who Killed the Electric Car?" and you will
learn a lot. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:03 pm |
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They didn't go very far between charges though did they? I seem to remember
something about 40 mph and 60 or so miles between charges. They need a much
better battery than that for people want to buy it.
"Susan Mitchell" <medlawtrans at (no spam) comcast.net> wrote in message
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Quote: Yes, and the bastrados at GM now promote "We're trying to figure out an
electric car" now. Well guess what jugheads you already had one in the 70s
and with pressure from big oil you destroyed it.
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| Susan Mitchell... |
| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:09 pm |
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Everyone who owned one loved it and some tried to hide them and didn't want
to return them. They absolutely loved them. For short commutes and for the
driving I do, they would be perfect.
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Sue -- Firefighter mom -- still rabid UW DAWG fan!
"Phyllis Nilsson" <phyllisnilsson at (no spam) buckeye-express.com> wrote in message
news:C5CdnShkmuqy_PzVnZ2dnUVZ_rvinZ2d at (no spam) buckeye-express.com...
Quote: They didn't go very far between charges though did they? I seem to
remember something about 40 mph and 60 or so miles between charges. They
need a much better battery than that for people want to buy it.
"Susan Mitchell" <medlawtrans at (no spam) comcast.net> wrote in message
news:pY6dnShdze7FwPzVnZ2dnUVZ_uednZ2d at (no spam) comcast.com...
Yes, and the bastrados at GM now promote "We're trying to figure out an
electric car" now. Well guess what jugheads you already had one in the
70s and with pressure from big oil you destroyed it.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:18 pm |
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Sure, people everywhere thought it was unfair, even illegal, but it
was effective in cutting gas consumption. When it was done then, the
crisis was nowhere as serious as it is now, so I have to wonder why
it's not a national issue--it's just not getting much press. As
unpopular as it was, it had some merit as a stop-gap measure, so you'd
think it would be getting consideration (at least from an out-going
administration!)
Anne/OH
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 05:21:18 -0700, Samantha Hill - remove TRASH to
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Quote: anne at (no spam) munge.com wrote:
I've been wondering about this, too. It seems so logical that not
implementing it defies explanation, IMhO. It was an effective move
decades ago.
Well, I don't know about anywhere else, but in California most of the
natives thought it was unfair of the feds to try to control state speed
limits (which, IIRC, they did by withholding federal funds for highways
if the states didn't lower their speed limits, not by making it
illegal), and I can only imagine that the same groundswell of
unpopularity would be even worse these days. |
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 5:49 pm |
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anne at (no spam) munge.com wrote:
Quote: Sure, people everywhere thought it was unfair, even illegal, but it
was effective in cutting gas consumption. When it was done then, the
crisis was nowhere as serious as it is now, so I have to wonder why
it's not a national issue--it's just not getting much press.
Because Americans are in love with conspicuous consumption, I suppose.
Same reason all the diehard ecology nuts were gung-ho on reuse, reuse,
don't use disposable anything -- until it came to diapers. I used
cloth. They went, "eewwww, I am not handling filthy cloth diapers!" and
used disposables. *shrug* Same reason people were asking on message
boards about what to do with glue stick tubes once they were empty,
because they hated to throw it away (as in, they should have thought
about that before they bought them in the first place). Same reason
that when someone -- I don't remember who -- on SMT was asked a few
years back why they bought a gas-hogging SUV, they replied, "It's my
$30,000 and I'll spend it the way I want!"
Unfortunately, that seems to be the mindset of many Americans -- bigger,
better, more impressive, etc. It's not my mindset, and it's not the
mindset of my family, but it tends to me more the norm than "Use it up,
wear it out, make it do, or do without."
It was not illegal for the government to say, "Cut your max speed limit
to 55 or we will cut our matching highway funds." It gave the states an
option. |
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