By: Kurtis

Kurtis — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:42:36 +0000

Because I have .edu attached to my email address, this post will be highly intelligent and a pleasure for all to read…haha.
First, no matter what any company’s marketing scheme is, they are out to make money. That’s their sole purpose. it’s not to make “green” cars, or help individuals from high fuel prices. It’s to make money. So if they can go with the whole “green” stuff, they can charge a premium, say they’re saving the world and really when it all comes down to it, they are going backwards in MPG. Same with lightbulbs. We’ve for a while have paid much more for the curly effecient bulbs. it saves energy right? well, they almost all went out on us at the same time (which was far less than run time advertised) so we just got the ole cheap 100w regular bulbs. they are brighter and our electric bill has not increased at all. business will attach on the green fad and raise price and people will jump on it. Back to car MPG, from what i’m aware of most cars now are pretty much ran on computers and sensors….which ALL can be adjusted and are so by the factory before leaving to the dealership. you can increase power, fuel economy, ect…all by hooking up a certain chip that overrides the factory ones or adjusting factory chips which they dont tell us how to do. Sensors as we know them are adjusted by the factory to regulate fuel so as i push on gas pedal the sensor says how much fuel goes in. my old mustang you adjusted a screw that did that and adjust idle speed therefore using less fuel just sitting. i’m sure your civic had something similar so anyone could adjust it. Most things with old cars you adjusted that stuff manually, now it’s computerized so joe schmo can’t regulate it himself. Think about it, we are buying cars that are able to be adjusted in many different aspects to benefit us, but we can’t because it takes a smart computer or something beyond normal knowledge to control (a tool that is not sold, ect..). it’s like if a company made a toy for a child, but made no way to turn it on without a machine or tool back at the factory. I think cars can run on far less fuel than manufacturers adjust for from the factory. I would imagine just looking as a businessman that big wig’s in the car industry have stock in the oil industry as well. and why not? they sell cars, they make money. More cars sold, more oil used and they make money again on something they created. why would they really want to make progress and jeopordize the 2nd income? Anyway that sounds like a conspiracy rant and now i feel like i should go home and put tin foil over my windows. haha. i’m bored and felt like rambling a bit.

By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:50:08 +0000

What I think is interesting is that these car manufacturers are obviously scheming, marketing, doing research, planning, and plotting the ways to mislead consumers and find any way possible to milk us for every single dollar they can- and look where it’s gotten them. Car companies are going bankrupt, not turning profits, and generally looking pretty dumb in today’s market…..or is that just another “tactic” to get not only our cash, but the government’s as well?

By: Bridgette

Bridgette — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:37:19 +0000

I am totally with you on this! It is weird. My mom’s Volkswagen Rabbit was more fuel efficient than any of these ‘hybrid’ cars are now, and it was super inexpensive. I got somewhere near 50 MPG. It was definitely more fuel efficient than my extremely rabbit-sized and shaped XD, which claims to get 36 MPG.

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