Do Many Americans Inherently Hate the Government?

[Indy]

[eynon81]

[John Galt]

[Professor]

[Indy]

[John Galt]

also note that while european cars are "cleaner" than american ones this is because their testing standards are laughable. they strip down the car, removing seats and other things to reduce weight. then they go to a track high in the mountains on special surfaces to test the vehicle after pumping special gases in the tires. the economist said this results in real-world mpg to be nearly 40% less than what the sticker says. lol...

so europe isn't doing as well as the us in terms of emissions. the reason is simply that they have done the opposite of what needs to be done. they flipped out about fukishima, and at the same time they flip out about fracking. as a result the US is awash in cheap natural gas (we have so much of it we burn it because it's too expensive to keep around, causing north dakota to look like a major metropolis from above) which is much much cleaner than coal. moving electric production over to natural gas is both economical and "eco-friendly" and it's made possible by fracking

[Spider]

Electric cars being cooler than a snarling, rumbling small block is a tall order. I got a ride an electric motorcycle recently. It pulled hard...but the power curve was flat. No thrill of running through the gears with bike pulling harder at the top of each of them. Dissappointing. Will be hard to get used to.

[Professor]

If you really want an eco-friendly car, go grab yourself a 1983 Honda CR-X. It's advertised at 52mpg (combined) and will get near 70 mpg on the highway. Plus, you're doing the most ecologically-friendly thing from a manufacturing standpoint - it takes zero carbon to buy a used car, versus build a new one.

[Spider]

[Philly]

Yeah but how many working models of those are available today? Not going to be a real solution.