Punching Out the Gas Prices
Still no car. Game night tonight and I'm working on getting into character for a few of the NPCs I think the players will encounter. No news there.
Instead, I bring you these two headlines.
The first is just a bunch of marketing hooley bahlooh from GM. In order to help sell their gas guzzling, high profit beasties, their starting a trial program in FL and CA. If you buy certain models (including the H2 and H3 in CA) you get a little gas card to use. Each month, you get a rebate on your gas card from GM that is the difference between the price of gas and $1.99/gallon. That's based on the feedback of miles driven from your Onstar car monitor you have to buy (1st year is free) and the EPA rated mpg the vehicle should get. I'm pretty sure we all know how inaccurate the EPA rating is. Especially considering how nutso traffic is in those two states.
Apparently, it's more cost effective for GM to pay the difference than it is for them to design practical vehicles that would do everyone some good. I mean seriously, what's their most fuel efficient vehicle? The Aveo? 34 or 35 mpg. The Corolla gets better than that and it's classified as a family car. Heck, I think most of the Honda, Toyota, and Mazda car fleet get better than the Aveo. I know the only Toyotas that get less are SUVs, minivans, the Sorata(Sorola?) thing and the Avalon. *shrug* How bout instead of worrying about selling a few cars at high profit margins you try selling more cars that use less resources?
And just for fun, here's an article about some Czech politicians beating each other up.
Instead, I bring you these two headlines.
The first is just a bunch of marketing hooley bahlooh from GM. In order to help sell their gas guzzling, high profit beasties, their starting a trial program in FL and CA. If you buy certain models (including the H2 and H3 in CA) you get a little gas card to use. Each month, you get a rebate on your gas card from GM that is the difference between the price of gas and $1.99/gallon. That's based on the feedback of miles driven from your Onstar car monitor you have to buy (1st year is free) and the EPA rated mpg the vehicle should get. I'm pretty sure we all know how inaccurate the EPA rating is. Especially considering how nutso traffic is in those two states.
Apparently, it's more cost effective for GM to pay the difference than it is for them to design practical vehicles that would do everyone some good. I mean seriously, what's their most fuel efficient vehicle? The Aveo? 34 or 35 mpg. The Corolla gets better than that and it's classified as a family car. Heck, I think most of the Honda, Toyota, and Mazda car fleet get better than the Aveo. I know the only Toyotas that get less are SUVs, minivans, the Sorata(Sorola?) thing and the Avalon. *shrug* How bout instead of worrying about selling a few cars at high profit margins you try selling more cars that use less resources?
And just for fun, here's an article about some Czech politicians beating each other up.
posted by Amazing Shafeman at 8:49 AM
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