Quote Originally Posted by LarryG View Post
Bitter medicine, there is a simple solution to part of the problem, lower the national speed limit to 60mph. Stagger work hours so that you are not sitting in long traffic jams. In atlanta strings of stalled traffic goes on for miles, because every one gets off work at almost the same time.But these are band aids on a chest wound. Last year they ran a special on what happened to the electric car, it was big oil and the auto companys that scuttled that thing.Of course electric cars wontwork in rural areas as well as urban areas. They cited the cost of the automobile, uh at that time a led watch was selling for 6o bucks, and was hailed as a great beak through then. now you can buy those watches for a buck or two. they claimed the battery technology wasn't there yet,and a guy who made a new type of battery, was bought out, put out of busuiness.Greed is Good.
jst goes to show they are sticking us,big bonus,they raised the speed limit
and if it was low supply or peak oil problems they wouldn't run 3mpg race cars every weekend and bp wouldn't be fillin up the pros boats evry weekend.
we are just getting to pay for it,why do none of the cars or boats have sponsored by american drivers on them.they don't even thank us for the fill ups.i know all that stuff is putting too much money in rich peoples pockets to
cut it back or limit it.anything to help invented to help the problem will be shot down,i know a fellow whos dad bought a gm car backduring the gas rationing days it got twice the gas mileage as the reg car,it wasn't to be sold with the proto carb on it but it was,they got back off the car...mpg can be achieved.why does my little 4.6 need as much gas to make it's power as my 96 454 did..?