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[Auto Observer] What we should have learned from CAFE is that just because automakers are told to make more fuel-efficient vehicles to meet the government mandates, it doesn't mean consumers will buy them. We have seen that fuel-efficient vehicles tend to be small, expensive and/or loaded with expensive technology.

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[All Cars Review] Higher Gas Tax Could Drive Buyers To Fuel Efficiency, Edmunds.com ...: Jeremy Anwyl, CEO of Edmunds.com (parent of AutoObserver.com), appeared as a guest on Fox Business News this week where he advanced the idea of a higher gas tax to stimulate consumers to buy fuel-efficient cars. Always controversial, a higher gas tax also was being discussed this week at the Detroit auto show.

[Straightline] Hybrid Sales Crater Amidst Lower Gas Prices | Straightline Blog on ...: If automakers build fuel efficient cars buyers WILL buy them. They just can't expect to charge a large premium for them during a recession.

[accentonwildbirds.com] Corporate Average Fuel Economy: There is some evidence that this happened with an increase in market share of lower fuel economy light trucks and SUVs and decline in passenger car sales, as a percentage of total fleet sales, as car buying trends changed during the 1990s, the impact of which is not reflected in this chart. In the case of passenger cars, US average fuel economy did not fall as economic theory would predict, suggesting that CAFE standards maintained the higher fuel economy of the passenger car fleet during the long period from the end of the 1979 energy crisis to the rise of gasoline prices in the early 2000s.

[Green Car Advisor] "Rulemakers Told Fuel Economy Standards Fall Far Short of Consumer ...: David Westcott, the National Automobile Dealers Association's chairman of regulatory affairs, said the proposed standards also fail to consider an important effect of the ongoing auto sales slump: Many consumers who want to make the switch to more fuel-efficient automobiles are unable to do so financially.

[Room for Debate] How to Get Detroit Selling Again - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com: well global warming is a bigger hoax and the change to alternative fuels is not practical until a standard of supply exists where you refuel today.What uncertainty does is nothing less than kill the market and now government controls both the supply and consumer base. Instead of this stupid bailout idea, it would have been wise for government to invest in finding new energy domestically.

[DealBook] U.S. Rejects G.M.’s Call for Help in a Merger - DealBook Blog ...: The Bush administration is still considering a range of options to aid the Detroit automakers, which are losing billions of dollars and rapidly depleting their cash reserves, said auto industry and administration officials, who did not want to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the discussions.

[Straightline] Pontiac to kill RWD G8 | Straightline Blog on Edmunds' Inside Line: After all, isn't Pontiac GM's performance division? If Pontiac had the CTS, then Cadillac could have continued to cater to the golf club set (which will be ever increasing with the impending baby boomers) and Pontiac would be prospering.

[Get Rich Slowly] How to Improve Your Fuel Economy: 23 Top Tips for Better Gas ...: While useing your engine to slow down for a turn or stop may not increase your mileage, It will increase the life of your brakes, and if done PROPERLY will not wear out your clutch or engine any faster, Ask any truck driver! Synthetic oils in the engine may make a difference but .

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