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What is this discussion about? Fuel Efficiency (MPG)


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Re: BOYCOTT every last US automaker except Honda!! [chadx] by lbeaver
Apr 18, 2008 (6:50 am)

Replying to: chadx (Apr 18, 2008 6:24 am)

Quote: What will you do when gas price rises above $4 a gallon? /Quote
I'll continue to drive my Honda
and laugh every time I drive by a fuel/gas station
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Re: BOYCOTT every last US automaker except Honda!! [lbeaver] by texases
Apr 18, 2008 (6:53 am)

Replying to: lbeaver (Apr 18, 2008 6:50 am)

That's what I'll do, become an 'HAFC' distributor and make money off of the worried and gullible!
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Re: BOYCOTT every last US automaker except Honda!! [kscng] by chadx
Apr 18, 2008 (6:59 am)

Replying to: kscng (Apr 17, 2008 8:25 pm)

"No reason whatsoever that USA should be driving all these gashogs, except for EPA and DOE being in cohoots with BigOil, along with all the US auto manufacturers!!!"
 
Except for the fact that neither agency has anything what so ever to do with the vehicles the manufactures choose to make or what citizens choose to purchase. It is actually the publics demand that decides what manufactures build. No one buys any SUVs? Then they stop making them. Demand for econo-cars skyrockets? They step up production of those models and put more R&D into that category (remember there is a 3 to 5 year lead time on what rolls off the assembly line).
 
If certain models sat on dealer lots and didn't sell, you can be they would make less of them. But when everyone that walks in buys a V8 rather than a V6 in a vehicle, or a V6 rather than an inline 4, that is what the manufactures build. Blame your neighbor, not gov. agencies. Supply and demand, remember?
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how about this idea? by steve_ HOST
Apr 18, 2008 (7:36 am)
Coming to a full stop at intersections wastes gas, right? So let's either legalize California stops or swap a bunch of stop signs out for yield signs. No one stops at them anyway:
 
Does anybody really stop at stop signs? (Straightline)
 

 
(Dang Andre, beer, cigs and gas. That's three bad "addictions" you have going there. )
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Re: how about this idea? [steve_] by texases
Apr 18, 2008 (7:37 am)

Replying to: steve_ (Apr 18, 2008 7:36 am)

"Dang Andre, beer, cigs and gas. That's three bad "addictions" you have going there."
 
You forgot the worst - Mopar tanks!
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Re: how about this idea? [texases] by steve_ HOST
Apr 18, 2008 (7:51 am)

Replying to: texases (Apr 18, 2008 7:37 am)

We'll have to do an interdiction and get him off the unleaded stuff asap.
 
Never seems to help the Chronic Car Buyers though, lol.
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Re: how about this idea? [steve_] by euphonium
Apr 18, 2008 (8:15 am)

Replying to: steve_ (Apr 18, 2008 7:51 am)

So what is an intervention? Are you not a friend of Bill?
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Re: BOYCOTT every last US automaker except Honda!! [kscng] by ateixeira
Apr 18, 2008 (8:23 am)

Replying to: kscng (Apr 17, 2008 8:25 pm)

Now that's just silly.
 
The Miata is more fuel efficient than the S2000.
 
The Sienna is more fuel efficient than the Odyssey.
 
Prius is more fuel efficient than the Civic Hybrid.
 
I could go on and on.
 
Yes, Honda has a high CAFE average but that's mostly because they do not sell big trucks like Toyota does.
 
Choosing the most fuel efficient vehicles that meets your needs makes sense.
 
Boycotting a Miata, which is more fuel efficient than an S2000, just because of the manufacturer's badge, makes no sense at all. It is ridiculous.
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Re: how about this idea? [euphonium] by steve_ HOST
Apr 18, 2008 (8:25 am)

Replying to: euphonium (Apr 18, 2008 8:15 am)

Thanks for the spelling correction. Intervention it is. I was thinking of the other kind of bombed....
 
No one wants to pull the stop signs down?
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Re: BOYCOTT every last US automaker except Honda!! [ateixeira] by larsb
Apr 18, 2008 (8:50 am)

Replying to: ateixeira (Apr 18, 2008 8:23 am)

ateixeira says, "Prius is more fuel efficient than the Civic Hybrid. "
 
Yes, by a whole 2 mpg in the real world.

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