Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Doing more with less on the road
Between the debt-ceiling kerfuffle and Hurricane Irene, you may have missed two bits of summertime news that will be important for what we drive in the coming years.
First, President Barack Obama announced that the administration and automakers had reached a deal to double the fuel economy of our national fleet of cars starting in model year 2017 and reaching the goal by 2025. Right now, cars and light trucks – light trucks include what I call my “little old lady SUV” – get an average of 27 mpg. By 2025 those same vehicles are to average an impressive 54.5 mpg.
The second bit of news came a li...
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