Hot air about gas emissions
Didn’t quite believe me when I said the U.S. auto industry plays games (and sometimes flat-out lies) about mileage?
Here’s my favorite ironic quote of the day (and again, please bear in mind that in this context “favorite” means I actually don’t like it, except for its irony), and it’s from this piece:
“If you want to reduce gasoline usage—like I believe we need to do so for national-security reasons as well as for environmental concerns—the consumer has got to be in a position to make a rational choice,” said a beaming Bush.
Uh, yeah. That’s why you shouldn’t allow automakers to LIE about it.
March 28th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
With the recent meeting of the heads of the Detroit big (becoming small) three auto makers and Bush this past week I don’t think we will see any meaningfull changes. I’m sure the auto heads said if you raise the gas millage rate we’ll lose jobs. Bush of course does not want that to happen so he’ll cave and do nothing except relax the rules even more to allow the auto companies to do more of the same.
Paul