[geeks] What is Microsoft planing with this?

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Kurt Huhn <kurt at k-huhn.com> wrote:
> On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 09:08 PM, Rick Hamell wrote:

> > 	Because they're not environmentally friendly? They're not
> > regulated like cars are to meet certain minimum MPG limits. I saw a
> > statistic somewhere that stated something like "If every SUV on the

> > road today got 1 MPG better, it would save more oil then all there
> > is" [in that wildlife preserve that they wanted to drill... I can't
> > remeber the name.]


Anwar - And it is amazing that the environmentalists can tell how much
oil is there - I don't think the Oil Companies know...
 
> Light trucks (which SUVs fall under) most certainly *are* regulated
> in gasoline consumption.  The CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy)
> for all manufacturers takes light duty trucks (the type sold in 
> dealerships, even 1-ton DRW pickups) into the equation - as a
> seperate group, but they are regulated nonetheless.

I remember looking at the Ford Expedition when it first came out, and
the dealerships had a parallel promotion - they *had* to sell an Escort
for every Expedition they sold, to maintain the CAFE numbers. Ford
dealers offered *tremendous* discounts on the Escorts to allow the
dealers to sell the high-profit Expeditions.

They most certainly are regulated.


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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