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Originally Posted by orange4boy
... Our appliances have these ratings. What's stopping the tire companies? ...
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Making tires uses lots of oil. Specifics below.
My theory is that the tire mfg industry is in bed with the oil industry. Buying as much oil as they do they apparently aren't willing to put the screws to to Big Oil. So they are perfectly happy to help us ignore the effects of tire design on fuel consumption.
"According to Federal data, each car tire requires seven gallons of petroleum to make, and each truck tire takes 22 gallons. Altogether, it takes 2.6 billion gallons of oil to make America’s tires each year."
Reference for quote above:
Rep. Johnson proposes TIRE Act to curb pollution, oil dependence | Congressman Hank Johnson, Representing the 4th District of Georgia
Unfortunately the oil industry seems to think that the more oil they sell, and the faster they sell it, the better off they will be. Um, they're omitting the "until it runs out" part.