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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Srexley who wrote (191584)	10/12/2001 6:46:46 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

What type of boat do you have, and what do you use it for? (Of personal, not political, interest.)

To: Srexley who wrote (191584)	10/12/2001 7:17:43 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Here's a simple answer to our dependency on foreign oil: All personal vehicles by the year 2004 must get 40 mpg highway and 30 mpg city driving. It's time for action, not placating "everybody-else-but-me" suburbanites driving Suburbans. Hell, the '96 Buick Park Avenue I drive already gets 35 mpg on the highway. And it's a big-ass car.

To: Srexley who wrote (191584)	10/12/2001 8:08:43 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Right... but I don't think anyone was trying to force SUVs to get "the same mileage as cars"... not even the people in Congress who were trying to force Bush to extend the C.A.F.E. standards to light trucks and SUVs. I think what they wanted to do was set a new standard for C.A.F.E. that included light trucks also. That way they would count all the cars, trucks, and SUVs that a manufacturer made in determining if that manufacturer was meeting the standards... by averaging all the vehicles together. So a manufacturer could still sell big-engine vehicles, or heavy curb-weight vehicles - (without paying any penalty as a 'tax' for having an 'inefficient' fleet) - so long as they sold enough high mileage vehicles to bring their fleet average down. One Monster Truck = three Yugos, or something like that :-) Right now, the trucks & SUVs get a 'bye' because they are not counted at all in the fleet averages... yet there have been more & more of them sold over the last 20 years in the US... so the fuel efficiency of the 'average' vehicle in the US has started to creep down over the last decade or so, not up like it used to do when they first passed C.A.F.E. Does that make any sense?