What Price Fuel Efficiency? Senate debate over automobile fuel standards boils down to dueling statistics and, of course, politics. Meanwhile, the real picture of a complex issue may end up lost in the fray. By Farhad Manjoo. [Wired News]
The arguments: Bigger cars are safer! Smaller cars are more efficient! Why can't we have big, safe cars? Audi has shown that Aluminum can be welded to make a frame from what was previously thought to be a great, but unusable metal, saving 40% in the this area alone. Acura was the first manufacturer to make an all aluminum production car, the NSX. It's been done! Why can't SUV makers start using it too? I know that there will be costs to re-tool and retrain their workers, but those can be written off as a one time plant cost. Cadillac could start, as GM has often used them as a test bed that they roll out new tech.
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