Why don't vehicles get 100 mpg? No technology? Greed? Payoffs?

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O.C. another car for the shelves huh?
Howard,,are you on planet earth? WTF do you mean nobody would want 100 mpg? You work for the Koch bros?
 
Sorry to inform you that there's no conspiracy involved. People couldn't afford to buy or wouldn't want to drive a car that could get 100 mpg.

You miss the point. I'm saying people won't buy a 4 wheel bicycle with windows or a car with 20 horsepower and a top speed of 20 which is what a 100 mpg car would be. To have a standard sedan get 100 MPG would require the use of advanced composite materials to reduce weight to get that kind of mileage. Carbon epoxy costs $1,000 per pound. That would make the car cost about $1 million. Even with"cheaper" materials you're still looking at a price of over $100,000.
 
When there is more money to be made by selling less efficient cars (more gas to fill a tank) the industry will always go that route. Oil companies pay car companies to be less efficient.
 
I think they could. I had a 1978 Ford Fiesta. 40MPG loaded down with vacation and camping gear. Went to Florida and back, up and down the mountains. I took out the rear seat to make even more room, it sort of squatted a bit. Since that time, the feds mandated lots of pollution controls, which takes the gravy MPG right off the top of cars.
 
Check this out!

WTF thumbs down on that???

Nope 2013
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/car-manufacturers/volkswagen/8293372/Volkswagen-XL1-review.html
 
When there is more money to be made by selling less efficient cars (more gas to fill a tank) the industry will always go that route. Oil companies pay car companies to be less efficient.
 
When there is more money to be made by selling less efficient cars (more gas to fill a tank) the industry will always go that route. Oil companies pay car companies to be less efficient.
 
When there is more money to be made by selling less efficient cars (more gas to fill a tank) the industry will always go that route. Oil companies pay car companies to be less efficient.
 
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