Although cars with electric motors in cars such as the Honda Insight have the best miles per gallon numbers with up to sixty eight miles the gallon around town(EPA), I feel that there are better alternatives with better performance and without the expense. There are compromises in the works between the Big Three auto makers, the United Auto Workers union and environmental activists are negotiating to try and come up with a joint proposal for what they have come to conclude is the most realistic way to improve the fuel economy of the U.S. automotive fleet (Ball 1).

For Environmentalists, the realization is setting in that a severe toughening of the federal government’s fuel economy rule is going to be a political uphill battle. So some of them are concluding, the only way to get

Electric motors for cars do get a great amount of gas mileage, at sixty eight around town I will not argue, but you are loosing a tremendous amount of power and reliability. Although it would be nice to switch all the cars in America to a radical alternative fuel source such as hydrogen or electric I think we need to think on a smaller level first. The diesel engine can have more horsepower and torque than a gasoline engine or an electric motor with added reliability. It is not uncommon for a diesel engine to run for 500,000 miles without a major rebuild or tune up, in a gasoline engine, you would be lucky to 250,000 miles with regular maintenance and tune ups. If you look at the reliability and power of the diesel combined with the fact that you can get up to fifty five miles to the gallon, why wouldn’t everyone want a diesel? The EPA test score for Green House Gas shows that the diesel powered Volkswagen beetle scored a 4.7 compared to a 7.6 for the same car in gasoline(EPA). The Honda Insite which everyone talks about being so safe on the environment scored only a 3.8 almost a one point difference from the diesel which does not seem all that good for the lack of power and reliability.

In Conclusion there are alternative methods to solving our current fuel economy problem. I do not feel that we need to go and cut people off from being able to buy the large Hummers and Suburbans that they

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