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- garett_west0
Hey, we are the assholes that keep buying all these SUV's and driving around the corner. We are the ones that insist that we have to drive to work by ourselves. Why dont we buy smaller, more fuel efficient cars? Wont look as cool I gues. The American consumer is the one to blame here. Not the oil companies. We are the ones that went out and bought up every four wheel drive SUV to drive on the highway. (mmm gotta have that 4WD.)
pyeaton
(Aug 7 06, 14:03)Can you please not blame it on SUV's and the fat American driving public? Makes you sound really unintelligent and uninformed.
Lets really think for a moment EVERYTHING causing emissions.
Cars.
Airplanes. (which airtravel has risen steadily 3% EVERY year)
Trains.
Trucks.
Boats.
Farm Equipment.
Lawn Equipment.
Machinery.
Helicopters.Take for instance trains. General Electric's Evolution, the world's most advanced diesel-electric locomotive. The locomotives represent a breakthrough in fuel efficiency and pollution reduction, the later important because trains traditionally have been exempt from environmental controls. The 4,400-horsepower Evolution uses five percent less fuel than other locomotives of the same power -- which means a lot since a typical locomotive burns 1,000 gallons of diesel per day -- and emits 40 percent less pollution. General Electric is at work on a hybrid locomotive that would achieve further reduction in emissions and fuel use.
The Evolution is selling like crazy in part because the George W. Bush administration imposed the first national emissions standards on locomotives; also on construction equipment, off-road vehicles, marine engines and other previously unregulated sources of diesel exhaust. Bush further required that diesel fuel itself be "reformulated" to reduce inherent pollution content. Did you know that President Bush ordered a major strengthening of clean-air law? Of course you didn't, since the mainstream media refuse to report this.
Also how about you turn on the television once in a while and see that EVERY major automaker is making leaps into the green generation.
GM has 30+ cars that get 30 miles to the gallon or higher.
Toyota, Honda, Lexus and Ford ALL have hybrid vehicles.
GM has a fleet of 12 cars and trucks that can run on biodeisel and currently there are 2 million of them on the roads.
So please, for your own sake... NEVER say it's "SUVs".