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Originally Posted by dph815
80,000 pound tractor-trailers rigs get 5-7 miles per gallon. Compare the weigh-fuel mileage ratio and a 5,000 pound auto should get about 80 miles per gallon.
What are the reasons for this and shouldn't autos be able to be just as efficient?
Just thinking,
Danny Harris
Arkansas
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Big rigs are commercial vehicles.They are to MAKE money.All truck owners are interested in MPG as it directly impacts profit/loss,and so there is competition within the market to deliver a product with commercial advantage.There still remains some "gentleman's agreement" witholding of technology to protect competition and bolster the used truck market.Bankers hate innovation!---------------------------------- Automobiles are designed to go out of style and enrich governments,oil industry,and parts,labor,insurance,pension funds,labor unions,collision repair,chambers of commerce,etc.,and keep the US at war.---------------------- Since "economy" cars constitute only about 2% of new car sales,nobody really gives a flying --ck about them.Sure,we could of had 80-mpg cars in 1992,but why would we? It would cut into the retirement benefits of retired Texas kindergarten teachers.As long as soldiers are cheaper than foreign oil,we continue to kill for it.To hell with fuel economy.(Big flag wave).