Comments on: AutoNation’s Mike Jackson: Efficient Cars and Cheap Gas Don't Mix

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By: Scott Z

Scott Z — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:55:42 +0000

Sadly we do need a gas tax increase. Small ones over time. perhaps 10 cents every 3 or 6 months for a few years. Americans do not currently pay the real cost of gas/oil. Our government has been subsidizing the oil industry for so long. I would like to see us pollute less and send less cash to foreign governments that are so hostile to us.

By: Dave - Phoenix

Dave - Phoenix — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:14:42 +0000

I'm afraid he's right.

As long as gas is cheaper, American will buy gasoline powered vehicles.

But, as 2008 proved, there is a cost point where Americans will change their buying habits....

If the US government wants Americans to switch to hybrid & EV's, they will have to find a way to change the economics so that gasoline vehicles are more expensive.

By: Al W.

Al W. — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:01:00 +0000

Something people frequently miss is that the efficiency of the internal combustion engine has increased by 35 percent since 1980. The trouble is, those gains have been funnelled into performance gains instead of mileage gains. Modern 4-bangers are putting out more horsepower and torque than the 305 V-8 GM put into the 1983 Chevy Caprice and are doing it with less fuel and fewer emissions.

Mike Jackson is right, and the industry data don't lie. When gas passed $3.50/gallon, people raced to B and C cars and hybrids. C cars as a segment grew by double-digit percentages in 2008 when gas was at $4.29/gallon, but when gas fell back under $3, that same segment fell by that same double-digit margin.

The ONLY way people will choose smaller cars is if there is a pricing force pushing them into smaller cars. That force can only come from one of two places-the private market or government. And, if Government were to raise gas taxes, they could use the money to start rebuilding all the 60-year-old bridges that are one 18-wheeler away from collapse.

By: Charlie Williams

Charlie Williams — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:07:12 +0000

If better gas mileage is the goal, then the problem, not the symptom needs to be addressed. There are no magical gas-saving devices. However, there are proven ways to get an engine to do more work with less energy. That means making a car use fuel more efficiently.

Charlie Williams

By: Max Reid

Max Reid — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:29:23 +0000

As the Asians keep buying more and more vehicles, surely the price of gasolene will keep going up. Plugins and EV's will become common.

World has changed so much so soon that China has overtaken USA in the auto market with a 3 million vehicle lead.

And in USA, the CUV's have outsold SUV's by a marging of 2:1. Future is going to be here sooner.