Comments on: Big Bad Masculine Vehicles Manufactured by Chevrolet Powered on Ethanol

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:43:57 +0000

Thanks!

By: hydrogen car

hydrogen car — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 09:32:24 +0000

interesting blog, it nice to know that car manufacturers nowadays gives their concern about nature, we all know that hydrogen cars are better solution to reduce oil, also there are sites that offers services in making this hydro cars.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:26:23 +0000

Corn Holer, thanks so much for adding your input. I have to say your comment makes sense, the American car makers are having a hard time in this fight…

By: Corn Holer

Corn Holer — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:56:39 +0000

GM ‘s sudden stewardship of the environment is simply a way to continue to make gas guzzlers thanks to E85 an extremely inefficient fuel. The CAFE standards call for all car companies to achieve an average MPG for all vehicles. I believe the most recent number is 27 MPG. Well if you make the biggest money off of 10 miles per gallon SUV’s you would hate to say good bye to them wouldn’t you?
The CAFE standards has a loophole, that being that an E85 vehicle operating on E85 miles per gallon are ONLY figured against the actual amount of gasoline in the blend (15%) if you divide 100% fuel by 15% gasoline you get the multiplier to the mpg (666) therefore a gas guzzling 10 MPG SUV is given credit for 66.6 MPG. If you sell one SUV like this you can have 5 vehicles only achieving 20 MPG and this gas guzzling SUV and you average more than 27 MPG overall while not one of their vehicles really met the standard.
GM is not the only one taking advantage of this free ride Ford and Chrysler are too. The big three are heading down the toilet and this is just their hands clinging to the rim.