Most automobiles are at least 25% less efficient then five to ten year
old technologies should have given us if the auto industry had lived
up to their claims of customer service... perhaps the good thing is
that higher gas prices will result in less consumption...
Unfortunately, less than cost-optimally efficient vehicles contribute
dispro****tionally to environmental and public health and greenhouse
gas problems...
Urge the auto industry to make cleaner air, more fuel efficient and
safer vehicles:
http://www.autobuyology.org/tellcarmakerstocleantheair.pdf
With the real cost of subsidized gasoline now well above $10 a gallon
(http://www.icta.org/press/release.cfm?news_id=12),
and with 'average'
automobile owner****p and operation costs over a lifetime now zoom-
zooming past $500,000 (half a million dollars -- you do the math), a
few auto related conservation reminders may be helpful: Go carfree
(see savings above); go carless; buy smaller, more fuel efficient
vehicles and rent up or larger as needed; drive less; ride-share; trip-
link or group errands; negotiate a fuel inefficiency retail price
reduction for less than cost-optimally fuel-efficient vehicles; urge
the auto industry to stop fighting conservative and reasonable fuel
efficiency and green-house gas emission standards, and to adopt long-
proven, cost-effective fuel efficiency tenchologies for new vehicles;
get-SMART and sup****t comprehensive public trans****tation and auto-
alternative programs, for others, if not for oneself; And etc., add
your energy conservation choices to this list. Keep it handy, and
share it.
For those who cannot avoid buying an automobile, at least you don't
have to pay to much... a list of car deal resources to help level the
car deal playing field to favor the consumers...
http://www.autobuyology.org/thankyouforteaching.pdf
Rand
Carlessnesshood 101
If there is one thing worse then having to buy an automobile, it's
paying to much for one... "1st & 2nd law of thermo-economical-
dynamics"
http://www.autobuyology.org
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