The author of this OpEd News piece shows that the 230 mpg cited in recent publicity for the Chevy Volt is twisting the facts.

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Advertising tricks Volkswagen uses to the up the gas mileage it is able to claim in its most recent round of ads. Now, I have heard of a 100 mpg car that they are going to be offering in Europe soon. Is that the same thing?

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The misguided 'cash for clunkers' plan is little more than a taxpayer-financed rebate program. Among the biggest winners: Honda.

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HONG KONG — Worried about heavy reliance on imported oil, Chinese officials have drafted automotive fuel economy standards that are even more stringent than those outlined by President Obama last week, Chinese experts with a detailed knowledge of the plans said on Wednesday.

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President Barack Obama and Democratic lawmakers reached agreement on Tuesday on a legislative proposal designed to stimulate U.S. auto sales, which have fallen to near 30-year lows.

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On Feb. 20, TopGear.com declared war on oil, poverty and slow cars, all at the same time. We naively proposed that we could build the car that no car company could manage to build themselves.

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The U.S. government on Friday imposed the first increase in mileage standards for passenger cars and boosted the floor for sport utilities and pickups beginning with model year 2011 vehicles.

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January 20, 2009...Symbolism, Substance and the Challenge to Detroit

On Inauguration Day, the opportunity to make an immediate and profound turn toward charting the course for the rebirth of United States technology and industry should not escape the new Administration.

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Ford finally seems to do something right by creating a nifty 5-seat, 65-mpg car and they refuse to sell it in America "for business reasons". Okay, so it runs on diesel. Do the math...you'd buy it versus what you now have, wouldn't you?

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With gas prices up over a buck a gallon from roughly this time a year ago, it's no wonder there's so much fodder going around about stretching your gas mileage… the term many use today is hypermiling.

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We're stealing part of our post title from Jim Hamilton, as he unofficially commissioned this tool in the comments section of his blog post!

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A Hungarian firm called Antro has been showing off a prototype hybrid car that takes the notion of high gas mileage to new extremes. The car, called the Antro Solo, is billed as getting 150 miles a gallon on the highway. In town, it gets a mere 117.

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Artemis, an Edinburgh, Scotland-based company, has developed a hydraulic hybrid transmission that could potentially double the mileage of most vehicles -- by accident, as it happens.

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The "Prius, the Toyota hybrid with an elaborate dashboard monitor that constantly informs drivers how many miles per gallon they are getting and whether the engine is running on battery or gasoline power.

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Ditching your gas guzzler is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint, but if you really want to do something about global warming, get a used car. You'll be putting less carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

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It might seem ludicrous to you that there isn't a mass market right here and now for a 50mpg car. For crying out loud, we've entered the age of the $128 fill-up. (The cost of topping off a Chevy Suburban).

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In 1969, Subaru Was Getting 66 Miles Per Gallon

Detroit automakers are in denial about their ability to create a car that can really squeeze the miles out of a gallon of fuel.

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Dubbed BlueTDI, the engine produces 138 horsepower and 236 pound-feet of torque. It's good for 60 mpg on the highway, a 12-percent improvement over the 2006 Jetta TDI.

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Since this is not a one-size fits all proposition, we have compiled the five most miserly offerings overall according to the new EPA estimates, plus some choices in the SUV and luxury segments.

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You're driving down the street with the gas gauge pointing to empty. Scanning the prices on the boards at the gas stations, you notice that the national brands are all around $3.25 a gallon for regular.

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The emissions standards California proposed in 2004 — but never approved by the federal government — would have forced automakers to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent in new cars and light trucks by 2016, with the cutbacks to begin in 2009 models.

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Supposedly, the much anticipated ratcheting up of car fuel efficiency standards will force more people to downsize their rides and purchase more fuel-efficient cars. I don't buy it.

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High gas prices got you down? It's actually easy to save some gas money, and reduce your carbon emissions. Why not do it over Thanksgiving, when the spirit of the holidays are in the air, and you have to get to Grandma's?

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Toyota will begin using carbon fiber and aluminum in its next generation of hybrid cars.

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Remember the last time the price of a gallon of gasoline was under $2.50 a gallon? While it may seem like it's been forever, if you go by the national average price the date was March 3, 2007, which was exactly 229 days ago.

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