Je Nique vos Merdiers
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- Posted: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:46:53 +0000
While I am normally an advocate for mass transport and bleeding-edge high technology, I do like cars all the same. But, I live in the United States, where "car" also means "pick up truck" or "tank", and you can get a hybrid version of a Yukon XL. You know, in case you want to love the environment with your fists.
So when I see an article about the Peugeot 208 GTi, and read that it gets 74-83mpg, I'm not only pissed off that I can't get that over here, I also know that a car like this wouldn't be as popular as a Suburban, or an F-150, or a Fusion. Especially with that [awesome] purple paint job.
I can't help but mention how ridiculous it is that we're all driving fossil fuel-powered personal vehicles as our primary method of transportation, but the fact that the US's fleet gets an "impressive" 32mpg is just insanity. Clearly we are more than capable of producing way better than what we have, so why aren't we? Is it really that Americans "like" huge, tanky cars and SUVs like Suburbans and Challengers? Or is it just that we don't really have much of a choice?
So when I see an article about the Peugeot 208 GTi, and read that it gets 74-83mpg, I'm not only pissed off that I can't get that over here, I also know that a car like this wouldn't be as popular as a Suburban, or an F-150, or a Fusion. Especially with that [awesome] purple paint job.
I can't help but mention how ridiculous it is that we're all driving fossil fuel-powered personal vehicles as our primary method of transportation, but the fact that the US's fleet gets an "impressive" 32mpg is just insanity. Clearly we are more than capable of producing way better than what we have, so why aren't we? Is it really that Americans "like" huge, tanky cars and SUVs like Suburbans and Challengers? Or is it just that we don't really have much of a choice?