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VW sold a car in Europe that got 75 mpg.

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In Reply to: RE: "grossly inconvenient" posted by Story on November 25, 2021 at 03:54:45

Never brought it to the US market. Could have, just never did. No demand, I guess.
That's why we need high gas prices. My old Geo Metro got 45 mpg in the city with no tricks. Not a hybrid, no turbos, no stop-start, didn't even have multi-port injection. It was a perfectly serviceable vehicle. Plenty of room for me, ex-wife, two kids, and groceries. Could have been built better, and I'm sure if Honda built something like that it would have been. But the Metro is still the butt of car jokes.
Americans don't want cars like that because our gasoline is cheaper than bottled water. But a car is an appliance, just a device to get you from one place to another and back again. Decades of marketing have convinced us that the automobile is an indicator of self-worth, which is ridiculous.
BTW, we pay more for cheap gas than we think we do. The fossil fuel industry is taxpayer subsidized.

The problem is not that there is evil in the world, the problem is that there is good. Because otherwise, who would care?

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