E-M:/ fuel efficiency

["Anna Dorothy Graham" <grahama9@msu.edu>]

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Enviro-Mich message from "Anna Dorothy Graham" <grahama9@msu.edu>
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Hmmm.  Yesterday, someone posted a news headline in which the CEO of GM 
called climate change "a crock" (could whoever did that repost, if possible? 
- would like to print the article out).  Today the headlines announce that 
oil prices have surged to a new high. 

Meanwhile, according to greencarcongress.com: 

"So, on a year-to-year basis, buyers tended to buy slightly more fuel 
efficient cars than the average of the GM fleet, slightly less fuel 
efficient trucks than the average of the GM fleet as represented by what 
sold. A 1 mpg improvement may not sound like much—but then you have to 
look at what that actually means. Let’s take 15,000 miles driven per year 
for each car. GM sold 945,538 cars in the first six months of this year. 

Those cars will drive an estimated 14,183,070,000 miles in one year. A 1 mpg 
improvement racks up a savings of more than 13 million gallons of gas. That 
gain, though, is offset by the decrease in efective mpg in trucks." 

And GM still makes some of the most fuel-inefficient SUVs, vans and trucks 
on the road ... And it has lost its status as number one auto maker to 
Toyota, which makes some of the MOST fuel efficient cars on the road. 

You would think that the shareholders and boardmembers of GM would make a 
logical leap from its CEO's attitudes to its declining sales and profits.
Anna
Anna Kirkwood Graham, J.D., Ph.D.
"There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave and severe; it 
is always in the right, and the faults and errors fall to our share."
-- Goethe


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