Cynthetiq

I'd like to chime in that a couple of years ago, Bush had a "Hybrid" announcement on the White House lawn. He talked about GM and Ford coming out with hybrid vehicles in the future coming years.

All I could think about was, really? Why isn't Toyota there with their Prius? Honda with their Insight? Both companies had hybrid technology working already, the American companies lagging very far behind. Honda and Toyota have mature products version 2.0 if you will. Even Nissan is far behind, their Nissan Altima Hybrid is using Toyota technology. Carlos Goshn, CEO of Nissan doesn't think that it's worthwhile technology but only a fad.

Now about the gas mileage stuff, the American cars have always abused the CAFE standard methodologies of computations. Give away loss leader low end cars which are more fuel efficient so that they can manufacture and sell the more lucrative Lincoln Town Cars. The SUV became part of that mix.

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