President Obama has begun to push for an average 56 miles per gallon (MPG) for American automobile manufacturers by 2025. I can go well beyond that goal...today.
As I understand the process, the goal is determined by the average MPG of vehicles sold by each manufacturer. As a simplified example, if a manufacturer sells one million cars that are rated at 20 MPG and one million cars that are rated at 30 MPG, then that manufacturer has an average fleet MPG of 25. Simple math.
I would guess that every American automobile manufacturer has in development an all-electric vehicle prototype. All that automobile manufacturers need to do is sell that vehicle.
Do you know the MPG for an all-electric vehicle? It is infinity! All that the manufacturer needs to do is sell one of these all-electric vehicles to raise its MPG average.
Let us simplify the math again. Let us say that the same automobile manufacturer above who sells one million cars that are rated at 20 MPG and one million cars that are rated at 30 MPG, also sells one car that has an MPG of infinity. What is the average MPG for the manufacturer now? Do the math.
If (1,000,000 cars x 20 MPG) + (1,000,000 cars x 30 MPG) = 50,000,000; and 50,000,000/2,000,000 = 25 average MPG
Then (1,000,000 cars x 20 MPG) + (1,000,000 cars x 30 MPG) + 1 car x infinity MPG) = infinity; and infinity/2,000,001 = infinity average MPG.
Problem solved in the Liberal way ... Nothing changes, but we feel better about it.
Of course, from where does that electric power come? In my state it comes from coal.
