We owned a brand new 1975 Ford Granada with a small V8 and it did not get anywhere near 17 mpg! Neither did our 1968 Plymouth Fury III with a 318 V8.
A new Pontaic G8 with a 6.1 or 6.2 litre V8 has 361 horsepower and gets around 24-25 mpg while a 360 hp muscle car from the 60's or early 60's would get about one third that.
Every 302, 318, or small block 350 I have ever owned has gotten between 15-18 miles per gallon, unless they were in a 3/4 ton truck. Those older, pre-emission control V-8s, unless you are talking about a big block (360, 390, 396, 400, 460, 454, 440, etc.), were pretty good on gasoline. The engine in your wife's car is closest to the old 289s they used to put in the Mustangs back in the late 60s.
bring on the horsepower, varoooommmm, lol love my v8, suv, lol
This is one area where the car manufacturers sure have made some improvements. I remember when it was a big deal for a car to have 250 hp. These days that isn't hardly anything. I test drove a Chevy truck, before they downsized the 5.7 liter engine, and that thing threw me back in the seat when I mashed the pedal to the floor! It downright scared me! It used to be you had to have a 440, or something like it, to get that kind of power.
Are you also as upset that you still light your home with the same electricity that was conceived over 100 years ago?
Are you knocking the power companies for not finding something better than electricity?
The principle of electricity is still the same, but in the last 100 years we have learned many ways to generate that electricity and different cities and different parts of the world do reflect that. I also believe that electricity would be a much more difficult thing to radically transform since it involves a tremendous infrastructure, lines, transformers, etc.... not to mention the wide variety of houses and the ages of houses. How many people do you know who drive a car that is well over 100 years old?
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The principle of electricity is still the same, but in the last 100 years we have learned many ways to generate that electricity and different cities and different parts of the world do reflect that. I also believe that electricity would be a much more difficult thing to radically transform since it involves a tremendous infrastructure, lines, transformers, etc.... not to mention the wide variety of houses and the ages of houses. How many people do you know who drive a car that is well over 100 years old?
the primary methods of electric production remain about the same as they were 100 years ago.
AND electricty relies on the same oil/gas/coal companies you are talking about.
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the primary methods of electric production remain about the same as they were 100 years ago.
AND electricty relies on the same oil/gas/coal companies you are talking about.
There has been development in the areas of electricity generation. The first power plants were run by water power or coal. We still do rely on coal some but also use petroleum, natural gas, nuclear power, some solar power, and some wind power.
I also think that progress in fuel for vehicles can't even be compared to progress in housing grids. The amount of people who are buying cars made in the 2000's so far outnumber the amount of people living in houses made in the 2000s. Implementing newer technologies with vehicles is just not the same to me.
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