🚀 go-pugleaf

"Jeff Strickland" <beerman@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<vvri3g69pdgn26@corp.supernews.com>...
> "Doug Haxton" <hal@oa.com> wrote in message
> news:g9frvvsq1pc7092164800rai4acsou0ncq@4ax.com...
> >
> > My mom used to have a Geo Metro...the three cylinder model, mind you,
> > which had all of 50 HP.  I still remember going uphill with the
> > accelerator pressed to the floor, and watching the speedometer inch
> > inexorably down.
> >
> > I'll stick to my Corvette, thank you very much.  300 HP = :-)
> >
> > Doug
> 
> I would think the outcry would be against your 'vette more than against the
> SUVs of today. The typical SUV, Toyota 4Runner, Ford Explorer, and that
> size, typically gets from 15 to 20 mpg, while your 'vette also delivers
> mileage in this range, maybe as high as 22 mpg. Your 'vette (is it 'vette or
> 'Vette?) can carry at most two people, giving it at most 44 passenger miles
> per gallon, but the SUV that I used in my example can carry 5 passengers,
> and will yield 100 passenger miles per gallon, plus it can carry more than a
> can of tennis balls in its cargo compartment. It seems to me that the SUV is
> a better deal for the environment than a "vette, but we only hear about
> outlawing SUVs. Isn't that amazing?
> 
> PS
> I am not opposed to your 'vette, I only wonder why evnironmentalists can be
> so narrow minded.

I'd say out with both, but of course we got to ask the environmentalists... ;)