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I'm not sure I understand the MPG thing

dsimmer — Wed, 11/07/2007 - 01:31

So I'm not sure I get this. Hillary said she wants to have "tougher" restrictions on miles per gallon for automobiles. In a Free Press article today, she said that we need to have a 40 mpg requirement by 2020 and 55 mpg by 2030 to help combat global warming. Great. That seems...like a little too late, don't you think?

Thirteen years from now, we need to require cars to get 40 mpgs. How about require everyone to drive motorcycles? They generally get 40-50 mpg. Or maybe make everyone get a Toyota Camry Hybrid, it gets 40 mpg and it is a big car. If you're going to do something big to save the environment, shouldn't you set the bar high? Seriously, with any goal you set, why set it super low and super achievable? To make yourself feel great when you achieve it well before your deadline?

Give me a break. Let's do something radical. Like give everyone their own airship/zeppelin. Or for you Family Guy fans, your own HindenPeter.

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