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DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Midway through Bush's first term, the attempts to encourage U.S. car manufacturers to invest in fuel efficient vehicles were beaten back by Tom Delay and the Republican Party through manipulation of the tax code. The GOP made it far more attractive to buy a big gas guzzling SUV than a small car by offering enormous tax loopholes for Escalades, Hummers, Lincoln Navigators, Suburbans and other mammoth...
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Hootsbuddy's Place (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Those of us old enough to remember the gas shortage of the seventies remember well how quickly America returned to gas-guzzlers after flirting briefly with the notion of more economical cars with good mileage. We can blame Detroit all we want, but they were only producing what Americans wanted. Recently when the prices went out of sight the response was dramatic. Behavior changed and the price...
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jfleck at inkstain (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
The Washington Post thinks you’re not paying enough for gas*: In a perfect world, we’d like to see a gas tax that was the equivalent of oil at $100 per barrel. This would send a loud-and-clear signal to drivers to continue eschewing gas guzzlers for fuel sippers and mass transit. Automakers would get the message to [...]
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ProHipHop - Hip Hop Marketing & Business News (Free subscription) | 11/17/2008
Nelly's Branded Birthday Cake Nelly's work with Ford results in A BRAND NEW CAR or, in this case, a customized Ford Flex. Nelly Unwraps His [Highly Anticipated] "Gift" I may poke a bit in the photos captions but I'll have to admit that this is a fun form of marketing. Nelly...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/16/2008
A car for the head Graeme is not alone in wanting to swap or at least semi-retire an expensive car. He will keep the BMW but use it on weekends and on holiday, whereas the daily grind will be left to a new small car. It needs to be new, because Graeme wants a hassle-free life with a full manufacturer's warranty. At the moment there are some low-rate finance deals on the all-new Ford Fiesta, although...
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The Twin Cities Daily Liberal (Free subscription) | yesterday
There’s a simple explanation. Our automakers failed — refused, even — to recognize the changing automarket. They steadfastly, and wrongly, churned out obscene gas guzzlers like the Hummer. And what happens when you bring an unwanted product to the market? You fail. No related posts. No related posts.
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IT Facts (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Majority of Americans are willing to sacrifice perceived reliability, luxury, performance and comfort for better gas mileage as they plan their next vehicle purchase. Perceptions exist that gas-only cars are less expensive, more luxurious, and offer better design and comfort, Ruder Finn reports. Only 6% of respondents think hybrids are luxurious and just 12% feel [...]
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Andreyr92's Weblog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
every year more and more cars are being made. there becoming more and more newer and more futuristic also. i like new cars but i dont like the slow electric gas saving cars. their just boring, you cant do anything with them but drive normally. i read in an article some where that scientists made [...]
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How to of the Day (Free subscription) | yesterday
... help you . Decide who's driving. One person can drive all the time, while the riders chip in for gas and maintenance, or everyone can take turns driving. This can depend on a few different factors:Who has the most ? If one person in the carpool has a gas guzzler and another person has a hybrid, then it might be in the group's best interest to use the hybrid more often, because then everyone...
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Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | yesterday
... are willing to sacrifice perceived reliability, luxury, performance and comfort for better gas mileage as they plan their next vehicle purchase. At the same time, perceptions exist that gas-only cars are less expensive, more luxurious, and offer better design and comfort. Only six percent of respondents think hybrids are luxurious and just 12% feel they are better priced. Additional findings of...
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Donklephant (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
... to them, yes, we’re going to use this money to save these jobs, but we’re not going to build these gas-guzzling, unsafe vehicles any longer. The fallacy in Moore’s argument is that those gas-guzzling vehicles (SUVs and large trucks) have been the only thing propping up the U.S. automakers. Until gas hit $4.00 this summer, American’s loved their gas guzzlers and GM and Ford were the companies...
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The Twin Cities Daily Liberal (Free subscription) | yesterday
... but Hummers, they’d be in fine shape. But they’ve got it completely backwards. People don’t want gas guzzlers anymore, but Detroit has refused to adapt to this new reality. Forget about the CAFE standards: increasing fuel economy is being driven by the market. I thought conservatives liked that sort of thing. Here are the quotes from Think Progress : – MITT ROMNEY: Well, government did [cause...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Opening in Seattle after a week of national furor over any thought of channeling billions to an antiquated American auto industry, "Fuel" also couldn't look more topical. Indeed, director Josh Tickell spends a fair amount of time in this dynamic, stirring film tracing the mutually beneficial relationship between a tax-subsidized car industry high on gas guzzlers and a tax-subsidized oil industry...
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lovable liberal (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Much of the commentary on the proposed automaker bailout has focused on the injustice of bailing them out. Conservatives have blathered about autoworkers making $70 an hour. Liberals have pointed out how badly managed American auto companies are, how they doubled down on gas guzzlers at a time when cheap oil obviously could not go on for much longer. If you don't think that was obvious, particularly...
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Otto 子's War Room (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
By史蒂夫・奥多 With the big three auto companies in big trouble, no one poses the question why? Could it be that big gas guzzlers pushed to make the more money would backfire when the peak oil scare hit us? Did they know this would happen or did they care? I hear people all the time saying the economy is a bigger issue than the war. Well, they are related. Wars take a lot of resources, money materials...
