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Tuesday, December 12, 2006EPA
Fuel Economy Estimate Revisions and Hybrid Vehicles
On Monday the EPA
announced that it was going to revise fuel economy
estimates on vehicles to provide better information to
consumers. Mileage estimates for hybrids will also be
affected. Accordingly, "mileage estimates for
gas-electric hybrids probably will be 20 to 30 percent
lower for city driving and 10 to 20 percent lower on the
highway, the agency said."
One can expect hybrid critics to again claim that hybrids
don't make sense, yet when real world fuel economy of all
vehicles is compared - especially class-by-class - it will
be demonstrated that hybrids are still significantly more
fuel efficient than conventional vehicles.
Still, the real point regarding the EPA's revisions
shouldn't be focused on hybrids, it should be focused on
the fact that, in reality, automakers are horribly failing
CAFE. Yet, ironically, the real world fuel economy of
conventional vehicles isn't going to affect CAFE
requirements. The fact that automakers have essentially
violated the will of Congress for decades - causing
massive increases in foreign oil dependency - just doesn't
matter.
(Source:MSNBC)
posted by
Dahcredyns at 10:58
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The world's
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The
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The first
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The
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The world's
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