Fuel efficiency: Is the government hiding clunker data?
It's not all small carsAccording to the government, the Cash for Clunker program is moving people out of fuel inefficient clunkers into vehicles averaging 25 mpg. I guess the keyword is average.
While the government hasn't released its data on the Clunker program, it has offered a Top 10 list that highlights small cars and a few hybrid vehicles.
However, Edmunds has compiled different data, and it shows lots of trucks, luxury vehicles and SUVs are also selling. For instance, Beny Ledesma, general sales manager at Williamson Cadillac-Hummer in Miami, has already sold 3 Cadillac SRXs and is finishing paper work on two more thanks the Clunker bill. Ledesma hopes to sell another 14 SRXs along with some Hummers. Both vehicles average 18 mpg.
For weeks now the AP and groups like Public Citizen have requested all the government's data on the program, so far the government has not complied.
Labels: fuel efficiency
posted by Dahcredyns at
8:51 AM
8 Comments:
The funny thing is that quite often poor people buy luxury vehicle, e.g. Cadillacs.
And it isn't just luxury vehicles, it's luxury gas-guzzlers. I can't believe the amount of ganster-wannabes - living in the garage - that I see driving around in loaded Tahoes and Cadillacs. Drives me crazy!
"gangster-wannabes" ?
Do you have many minority friends?
I would feel uncomfortable if I new one of my friends thought of minorities driving SUVs as gangster wannabes.
Personally, I think of poor SUV drivers as fools living above their means or brainwashed wage slaves buying whatever our consumer society tells them to buy. Why bring in unnecessary racial connotations?
Feel free to erase my comment, but I respect you too much to stay quiet about your gangster wannabe comment.
how can they qualify if they get 18 mpg??
many are gangster-wannabes. many are just gangsters.
also, i live in Highland Park, home of the Avenues gang, one of the oldest and most notorious gangs in LA, and my family is half latino. so, most of my friends are minorities.
i interact with gangsters almost every day and my statement wasn't some generalization, it's a fact of life in my neighborhood.
"how can they qualify if they get 18 mpg??"
i guess you'd have to ask the EPA that one.
It's a peacock showing it's feathers. No one knows where you live, but they see what you drive.
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