{"id":388,"date":"2004-08-29T08:13:25","date_gmt":"2004-08-29T15:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/388"},"modified":"2004-08-29T08:13:25","modified_gmt":"2004-08-29T15:13:25","slug":"american-car-makers-whine-because-theyre-building-monstrosities-instead-of-fuel-efficient-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/388","title":{"rendered":"American Car Makers Whine Because They&#8217;re Building Monstrosities Instead of Fuel Efficient Vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/28\/national\/28hybrid.html?th\">Aides to (Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger) say he will sign legislation<\/a> approved on Thursday that could allow up to 75,000 hybrid drivers, mainly those behind the wheel of a gas-sipping Prius, to use car pool lanes even when taking to the road alone. The governor hopes the perk will encourage more people to buy the cleaner-burning cars, but by doing so, he will give the Japanese-made Prius vaunted status in a state where nearly 30 million registered vehicles compete for every inch of open asphalt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What Bill Ford ought to be doing is spending his time figuring out how to out-compete the Japanese,&#8221; Mr. Angelides said. &#8220;The bill has objective standards, and any car company, including Ford, could produce a clean-burning, fuel-efficient hybrid that meets the standards.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Honda Insight and Civic Hybrid also meet the fuel effeciency standards.<\/p>\n<p>So American car makers have fought tooth and nail to keep cafe standards from raising, and now they&#8217;re fighting to stop a rewards program for those who purchase fuel efficient vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>As for Ford whining that the Escape hybrid doesn&#8217;t quality&#8230; at 31 mpg, my standard Corolla gets better gas mileage than that&#8211;we&#8217;re gotten 41 mpg on the interstate. So to call the Escape hybrid fuel efficent is a joke.<\/p>\n<p>If people want to buy urban attack vehicles, they most certainly may, but those people can suck it up when gas prices go through the ceiling. I certainly don&#8217;t want to listen to their complaints, since their gas guzzling is only exacerbating the problem. So drive what you like, but you don&#8217;t get to drive an SUV <i>and<\/i> complain about gas prices when you knew your monstrosity got low mileage when you bought it,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aides to (Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger) say he will sign legislation approved on Thursday that could allow up to 75,000 hybrid drivers, mainly those behind the wheel of a gas-sipping Prius, to use car pool lanes even when taking to the road alone. The governor hopes the perk will encourage more people to buy the cleaner-burning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-health-nature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-6g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}