EPA Proposes Grading System For Car Fuel Economy 272
suraj.sun writes with this snippet from CNET:
"The EPA and Department of Transportation on Monday proposed a fuel economy label overhaul to reflect how electric and alternative fuel vehicles stack up against gasoline passenger vehicles. ... The changed label, mandated by the 2007 energy law, includes the same information on city and highway miles per gallon and estimated driving costs based on 15,000 miles a year now available. But the new labels add more comparative information, rating cars on mileage, greenhouse gas contribution, and other air pollutants from tailpipe emissions. That means that consumers can look at a label to see how one vehicle compares to all available vehicles, rather than only cars in a specific class. One label proposes grades, ranging from an A-plus to a D. There are no failing grades, since vehicles need to comply with the Clean Air Act."
Re:Giant letter? (Score:4, Funny)
I sometimes feel bad for the guys in charge, it's apparently impossible to please people. We're normally clamouring for more information, operate our markets with the assumption of perfectly informed agents, run democracies that were conceived presuming some degree of voter knowledge, and heap disdain on the apparently ignorant.
If you walk into a dealership ready to spend >$10,000 based on a window sticker and some pamphlets, I've got a perpetual motion machine to sell you.
Re:I call BS.kg (Score:2, Funny)
Why, the stiffness of a spring of course. You do drive a wind-up, don't you?
Re:I call BS.kg (Score:3, Funny)
no... the units on a spring constant [wikipedia.org] are in SI units: "Nm^-1" or "kgs^-2"
Which is not N/M.
Re:Giant letter? (Score:2, Funny)
>> I've got a perpetual motion machine to sell you.
I'm guessing that gets an A, but I'd like to see a sticker on it before I buy one.