| Re: Coping With The New CAFE Standards OR Defying the Laws of Physics [message #793311] |
Wed, 06 February 2008 10:22 |
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On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:00:29 +0000, Eeyore
<rabbitsfriendsandrelations [at] hotmail.com> wrote:
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>Hugh Gibbons wrote:
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>> Eeyore wrote:
>> > What Me Worry? wrote:
>> > > "Eeyore" wrote:
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>> > > > It proves that '$10 gas' won't stop people using SUVs...
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>> > > ...in Europe.
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>> > > We'll see what happens in the US.
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>> > I'm confident it wouldn't STOP people. It'll make some reconsider their
>> > choices for sure.
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>> > When it's $15 or $20 I suspect that's when you'll see SUVs vanish from the
>> > roads. So, all you have to do is start a few more wars against Muslim
>> > countries to piss them off even more, get an oil crisis and job done.
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>> Gas in Europe cost variously, but the average hasn't hit $10/gal
>> yet.
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>Cuurently $9 in the UK.
>Graham
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I'm wondering if your government is having kittens at the thought of the
electric car that would allow y'all to charge batteries overnight and get
around the country at something like an equivalent $0.50 - $1.00 a gallon? How
are they going to tax electricity used just for that purpose without wrecking
the use of electricity for home power?
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