Originally Posted by slagjumper
I have seen a rash of car ads ment to appeal to women. They are buying something like 45% of cars today, compared to 22%, 20 years ago. By the way my 1996 Ford Exploder gets the same gas mileage as a 1914 model t. A whopping 12 mpg!
Since women have so much influence on the buying descisions of even the cars they dont buy--the week and lowly enviromentalists should find a way to get the ear of the women.
Moving away from cars for a minute I heard that If the US government gave every member of the board of every corporation free first class air on a non-private carrier and did away with the current $25K write-off for each private flight, we would have more tax dollars. Not to mention less pollution and global warming.
Model T's got about 25 mpg. So, many cars today do a lot worse. Mostly because, even though we have the technology and engineering to make super light, super-efficient cars, we don't, as the auto industry is controlled by many special interest groups.