On 2 Jul 2001, at 14:38, burns boldly uttered: > Lee wrote: > > > Not to worry there. At the rate we're sucking the next generation's energy >reserves and > > consuming them in our SUVs I'm sure the sky will be quite visible in the future's >darkened > > cities > > > Errr, what about semis? Pickup trucks? in fact, any trucks? large passenger cars >(Lincoln > town cars)? Winnebegos? buses? > > Most of these consume much more fuel than, say, a Chevy Blazer or a > 4-Runner. The problem is that SUV's are being designed, sold and bought as mass-market passenger cars, yet for years they had (still have, AFAIK) all sorts of smog and mileage exemptions due to being categorized as "light trucks". I presume the original idea behind those exemptions was to cut some market segments some slack because the vehicles were used for various specialized commercial purposes and not driven by hundreds of millions of people every day. But this hasn't turned out to be the case for this new category. The average MPG for american cars is now the lowest it's been in 20 years. -- Philip J. Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
