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Date:         Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:23:00 -0700
Reply-To:     David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
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From:         David Marshall <mailinglist@FASTFORWARD.CA>
Subject:      Re: What is it with the US?  (No real van content)
Comments: To: Don Hanson <dhanson@GORGE.NET>
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All very good points brought up. Unfortunately I think the USA is going to go down a lot more before it goes up. The Canadian dollar is at 0.94 right now, three years ago it was 0.66 - we have gov't rebates on the top 10 most fuel efficient cars and Diesel cars are redly available. Here in Quesnel Diesel is 0.929 per liter and gasoline is 1.129 per liter. I converted my wife's 1990 Golf Country Syncro from a 1.8L gasser that got 8L per 100km (the 2003 Ford Focus company car I have gets 10L! - some progress over 13 years!) to a TDI that now gets 6.5L per 100km - plus there is about 130hp and 200ft.lbs of torque - so a much more zippier car that I can drive 2x as far for the same amount of money.

Hopefully things will change in 2008 when the current "leader" is no longer in office. One can only hope!

David Marshall

http://www.hasenwerk.ca http://www.fastforward.ca

Box 4153, Quesnel BC, Canada V2J 3J2

On Fri, June 22, 2007 09:42, Don Hanson wrote: > Diesel vehicles dominate sales in the rest of the world..(debatable) They > are much more efficient at getting more miles per monetary unit and much > less polluting than gasoline..(debatable) But our current Oil corporation > run administration keeps diesel vehicles from being economically viable > here in the United States..And yet, they reward wealthy citizens with > large tax breaks if they buy 'super-sized' vehicles..My brother in law was > just shopping for a new car and wanted to buy a diesel sedan, but after > shopping around, weighing the costs, he ended up with a CadillacK! > Because it weighed enough to qualify for a $6000 tax rebate! WTF is with > THAT? How do we let that kinda corruption exist in our government here in > the US? > We recently watched Al Gore's "An inconvenient truth" dvd about global > warming..One point he made was that our US mandated minimum mileage > standards are almost the lowest in the civilized world, and by a > significant margin.. > He showed some statistics about US car sales, while making a point about > how conserving energy does not come at the cost of our economic health, > like Bush's Oil powered government would like us to believe. Directly > related to US cars poor fuel mileage are their poor market share in the > world...Not only wouldn't most of our US cars not fit into most streets > around the rest of the world, but they also would be excluded because > they fall waay short of even China's mandated fuel efficiency > standards... > When will we here in America wake up and stop allowing oil companies to > dictate what kinda motors we must use here? When you gotta go to Canada > or Mexico to get a decent car, and then sneak it across the border and > drive it "on the sly"..something stinks... > Sorry for the off topic..but not being able to find TDI motors..watching > the CARB rule against electric vehicles in favor of Hydrogen fuel cell > vehicles (then seeing the head of the CARB resign to take a position > with a....Hydrogen fuel cell company..) Not being able to purchase or > import a 60mpg diesel basic car, like is available world wide...that > stinks.. > Don Hanson >


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