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Re: 2008 Smart commuter car gets 40 mpg and will selling in USA for$12k.
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| Balanced View 2007-07-02, 5:25 pm |
| Mike Gardner wrote:
> In article <7TNhi.135821$Sa4.93020@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>,
> "Vaughn Simon" <vaughnsimonHATESSPAM@att.FAKE.net> wrote:
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> they are clearly visible in the right side look into the cabin. Both
> airbags. What is also clearly visible is that the drivers legs would
> have been crushed by the engine which is now where the pedals were.
> The car turned slightly before hitting the wall - leaving the passenger
> side less damaged but I expect if it hit straight on, while the doors
> would have opened, neither person could have "walked away".
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> Then this isn't the sort of vehicle anyone would think was safe at 70
> mph, mixing with trucks. It is much more suited for inner city and
> lower speed limits where four-ton-SUV's should be banned.
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You smash ANY vehicle into a concrete wall at 70mph and it will not fair
any better.
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On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:16:13 GMT, "no spam" <no@spam.net> wrote:
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>No it wouldn't. I've heard this same thing since the 70's. When gas hits
>50 cents a gallon, a $1, $1.50, $2.00 etc.; people will change their cars,
>driving habits, fuel or whatever. They do but only for a short time. Gas
>is hovering around $2.75 where I am and the roads are packed with all kinds
>of vehicles but I see very few small cars.
$15 a US gallon in the current economy would cut down on usage of
large vehicles. I'm specifically not talking about inflation of the
economy but a five times step change in fuel prices.
The $15 a US gallon might happen in the future. If in real terms it's
exactly equivalent to today's $2.75 then as you say it won't make ANY
difference whatsoever to large vehicle usage which is precisely the
point I was trying to make.
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| no spam 2007-07-03, 5:25 pm |
| >>>>The typical daft American belief that big and heavy = stronger prevails
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> $15 a US gallon in the current economy would cut down on usage of
> large vehicles. I'm specifically not talking about inflation of the
> economy but a five times step change in fuel prices.
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> The $15 a US gallon might happen in the future. If in real terms it's
> exactly equivalent to today's $2.75 then as you say it won't make ANY
> difference whatsoever to large vehicle usage which is precisely the
> point I was trying to make.
IOW, you want to force your idea world plan upon others by having someone
force the price of gasoline up to $15/gal. Would you be upset if that
someone was Exxon/Mobil and raised their profit even more than today?
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| clare at snyder.on.ca 2007-07-03, 5:25 pm |
| On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 18:22:51 +0100, Mike <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
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>On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 13:16:13 GMT, "no spam" <no@spam.net> wrote:
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>$15 a US gallon in the current economy would cut down on usage of
>large vehicles. I'm specifically not talking about inflation of the
>economy but a five times step change in fuel prices.
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>The $15 a US gallon might happen in the future. If in real terms it's
>exactly equivalent to today's $2.75 then as you say it won't make ANY
>difference whatsoever to large vehicle usage which is precisely the
>point I was trying to make.
Hovering around the $4 Canadian per American Gallon around here right
now. As low as about 3.90 and high as 4.25. With exchange rate around
..94, that's still 3.76 average, as low as 3.75 and as high as 4.08 US.
Canadians do tend to drive more small cars than their American
neighbors.
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| no spam 2007-07-05, 9:25 am |
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> Hovering around the $4 Canadian per American Gallon around here right
> now. As low as about 3.90 and high as 4.25. With exchange rate around
> .94, that's still 3.76 average, as low as 3.75 and as high as 4.08 US.
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> Canadians do tend to drive more small cars than their American
> neighbors
I wonder how the taxes for the world's drivers would compare. Drivers
outside the US tend to drive smaller cars but their governments have a much
larger tax rate per unit of volume. I'd be willing to bet that non-US
drivers are paying more in taxes/per mile driven.
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