How We'll Get To 54.5 Mpg By 2025 717
concealment writes "At the end of August this year, the US Department of Transport's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new standards to significantly improve the fuel economy of cars and light trucks by 2025. Last week, we took a look at a range of recent engine technologies that car companies have been deploying in aid of better fuel efficiency today. But what about the cars of tomorrow, or next week? What do Detroit, or Stuttgart, or Tokyo have waiting in the wings that will get to the Obama administration's target of 54.5 miles per gallon (mpg) by 2025?"
Replace every tollbooth... (Score:5, Funny)
A) Instead of building lots of new tollbooths (you know they will), replace each of 'em with a Taco Bell drive-through.
B) Build a methane-capture device into every driver's seat...
Mitt Romney (Score:5, Funny)
There will be no next Obama administration. Didn't you see that last presidential debate?
Obama is too stupid and lazy to be president.
Mitt knows that it isn't possible to "heal the planet", (insert Romney smirk here), or begin to slow the rise of the oceans.
So when Mittens is elected all of these silly MPG ratings will be rolled back once we achieve North American energy independence.
Re:Here's an idea (Score:2, Funny)
cars in the US are stupidly large for no good reason.
Compensation for certain body part being smaller. Its pretty deeply ingrained culturally. This being /. no body knows but I had a female friend who swore that was true, I guess she saw enough to make a pretty good graph. I'm frankly embarrassed to be seen renting the giant home depot pickup truck, thinking that the ladies are looking at me and feeling sad for me because I must be so small I'm an "innie", you know like when its -20 F outside .. shrinkage.
Re:Top Gear already done this... (Score:5, Funny)
No, he got it in a Jaaaaag.
Re:Here's an idea (Score:5, Funny)
Have you seen my wife?
Only the top of her head. Why?
Re:the easiest way (Score:5, Funny)
I don't think the color matters, since it's even more un-American to actually use the turn signals. If you must use one, then leave it on for at least fifteen minutes. By no means should you actually do what the signal indicates.