What a waste
Auto manufacturers are hawking "hybrid" vehicles that dramatically improve fuel economy, but in many cases they're still wasteful, hulking things. Chrysler, for example, introduced new editions of its 2009 Durango and Aspen SUVs that improve city mileage by up to 40 percent -- up to a total of 20 jaw-dropping miles per gallon.
Americans who think this is "going green" need to wake up, smell the hydrocarbons and get off their bloated asses.
I think it's great that the average 2009 Dodge Durango HEMI Hybrid user will "reduce fuel consumption by several hundred gallons a year," but my improving their vehicles to 20 MPG, that just shows you how damnably wasteful auto manufacturers -- and by extension, the consumers who buy these vehicles -- have been. It's shameful.
Meanwhile, decade-old Geo Metro LSI's -- GM-branded subcompacts that get between 35-40 miles to the gallon, still -- are going for several times their Kelley Blue Book value on eBay as commuters pinched in the pocket by high gas prices are trying desperately to find something, anything, that will defray the cost of $4 a gallon gasoline.
I just paid $2.99 for a gallon of milk. Too bad cars can't run on that.