Why is Obama Black?

[Shawnee123]

I asked some time ago why 30 mpg is now considered great mileage. My 1990 CRX got about 35, but the HF version got near 50. We're being screwed. They can do better. Somebody's pockets would suffer, methinks, and better ours than "theirs" in their eyes. If gas prices keep going up I don't know what I will do. My VW gets about 30, so it's considered great mileage: I have a 300 mile total commute each week. This is the suxxors.

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

I asked some time ago why 30 mpg is now considered great mileage. My 1990 CRX got about 35, but the HF version got near 50. We're being screwed. They can do better.

30 MPG is average to poor mileage. It was 1970/80 technology. But management (not union workers) were disciples of TheMercenary. Therefore routinely stifled innovation for their self serving purposes.

Japan, that does less innovation, prospered by putting inside their products technologies that were intentionally stifled by American management.

Meanwhile, so many consumers are so easily manipulated as to think 20 - and later 26 - MPG was great mileage. Mileage numbers would be much worse except that environmental protection (low pollution) laws required management to implement some innovations. Yes, environmental protection hyped by liars for making lower mileage was a reason for 30 MPG in 1970 and later cars.

I was driving a GM 5 speed in 1975. By 1980, GM has eliminated all 5 speeds. Innovation is bad - according to management.

For those outside the US - TheMercenary is hyping, almost word for word, a diatribe by wacko extremists such as Limbaugh. Same people who thought it was good when White House lawyers rewrote science papers. People with so much contempt for the advancement of mankind as to build the Constellation - a manned spacecraft disaster.

A 70 Hp per liter engine was ready for production in GM in 1975. That meant four cylinders replaced all big block V8s. But that also meant innovation and more union jobs. Only management stifled that technology to even create 1991 and 2008 bankruptcies.