By Tom Hanna, 1 year and 2 months ago
10 Cars That Won't Make Obama's Grade
Here for your amusement and edification are ten cars that won't meet President Obama's fuel efficiency standard - and I didn't even come close to listing the Hummer or the Lamborghini Gallardo.
- The Mini Cooper with a combined 29 MPG.
- The Hyundai Accent with a combined 29 MPG.
- The Ford Escape Hybrid with combined 28 MPG.
- The 2009 Toyota Yaris with a combined 31 MPG.
- The 2009 Nissan Versa with a combined 28 MPG.
- The Toyota Highlander Hybrid with a combined 26 MPG.
- The Honda Civic with combined 29 MPG.
- The Chevy Aveo with a combined 30 MPG.
- The Kia Rio with a combined 30 MPG.
- The Scion xD with a combined 29 MPG.
The Obama standard will reportedly require cars to get an average of 39 m.p.g., and trucks to get 30 m.p.g. None of these fuel efficient subcompacts even comes close to meeting the car standard and the two hybrids don't even come close to the standard for trucks. Data from FuelEconomy.gov.
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1 year and 2 months ago
Great blog. Isn't it scary what the Obama CAFE standards mean to the auto industry.
1 year and 2 months ago
Yeah, it's just utterly ridiculous. The markets don't think much of it either. When Bush got serious about opening up offshore drilling oil prices began falling immediately despite the Democrats protestations that it would take 10 years and only yield a trickle of oil. Oil prices today? Up 1%. Exchange gas prices? Up nearly 3%.
1 year and 2 months ago
I say we write our Congassmen and demand the CAFE standards be applied to the Presidential limo, Air Force One, and Marine One.
1 year and 1 month ago
And I have to wonder -- if improved fuel economy is their goal, what was the point of forcing GM (now named VOLGA) to kick Saturn to the curb? To make it impossible for the company to comply?
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