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Originally Posted by Undertoad
Modern engines are twice as powerful and efficient as engines 30 years ago, but WE refuse to buy vehicles that could get 45 MPH because WE do not want small, light, unsafe vehicles that do 0-60 in 15 seconds and can't haul shit.
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Which is what the dumbest anti-Americans were saying in the 1970s. To get 24 MPG, they said, we must all drive Pintos. Well my Honda Accord routinely exceeds 30 MPG even in local driving. And Hondas and Toyota are not very innovative.
The difference between an anti-American and those who innovate. The largest Cadillac could easily be doing 30 MPG. Only those trained in fear think fuel economy means smaller.
But again. Put 10 gallons into a car. Well over 8 of those ten gallons is wasted energy. Does nothing to move a car. Since only one in ten gallons does anything productive, then that must always be true? Yes according to myopia from business school graduates and a majority who believe their lies.
Why are we all not driving Pintos? In part, because the Pintos' 21 MPG was how the most myopic viewed a 24 MPG car. Largest Honda's and Toyotas routinely exceed that due to technologies developed in early 1970 in America. But those who said we would all have to drive Pintos were the wacko extremists and George Jr's of their time.