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At 20% more volume per gallon my Fiesta would be around 54 MPG right now. It also makes $6.50 per gallon gas more like $5.20 a gallon here in the US, even less with the greater energy density of diesel. US manufacturers as well as the Europeans are working very diligently to get high efficiency gas engines to replace the diesels with their particulate problems.
The greatest roadblock is the attitude of a significant majority of US drivers and apparently their continuing percieved affluence, combined with pure ignorance of the effects of shipping 300 billion dollars annually overseas. I don.t have much confidence that this attitude will change significantly, unless an alternative to the status quo becomes an additional option.
I believe I have found that alternative, but the task of educating the public, is greater than the task of developing the alternative.
regards
Mech
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