Fuel Efficient Cars

If you accept the premise of Global Warming, which anyone who isn't a reactionary conservative now does, you will have to admit that there is the need for fuel efficient cars. Fuel efficient cars will not be the total answer to global warming but fuel efficient cars will certainly help. As more and more countries around the world become more prosperous and their citizens become increasingly able to afford certain luxuries, the global demand for cars is growing. And as more and more cars get on the roads all over the world, there will be more and more pollution produced by those cars which will necessitate more fuel efficient cars. Plus as the cost of the oil needed to produce the fuel to power all of these cars continues to go up and up, the producing of more fuel efficient cars will become an economic necessity, which sad to say, will drive the push for more fuel efficient cars faster than environmental concerns.

so, it may be a good thing for the fight on against global worming that oil is now close to a record high of one hundred dollars a barrel. Because as long as fuel is cheap, consumers won't mind wasting it and car makers wont' make their cars any more fuel efficient than they have to so without the government pushing them and without consumers demanding it, fuel efficient cars are not a high priority. But now that gasoline costs over three dollars a gallon in the U.S., people are becoming a lot more desirous of fuel efficient cars. With any luck, the whole rise in the cost of gas will mean the death of the SUV. why anyone driving around on the well paved highways of the United States needs an oversized, overweight, military looking vehicle is way beyond me. When SUV's came into vogue, fuel efficient cars went right out the window.

It was much more important to drive around in a fifty thousand dollar SUV that was just guzzling gas so you could impress your neighbors than it was to drive a sane, fuel efficient car for the sake of the health of the whole world. The major car manufacturers could always have made more fuel efficient cars, but they always said that the consumer didn't want to pay for them and, of course, the auto makers weren't going to cut into their profits just to produce more fuel efficient cars because it was the right thing to do. And of course, the government, being in the hip pocket of the industry, wasn't going to force them to produce the super fuel efficient cars of which they were capable.

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