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Gas Mileage
Date: Mar 18, 2005
Contributor: Ericka Lamon
Lawmakers Review Gas Mileage On New And Used Cars
With no end in sight for rising gas prices, people buying cars have a lot more to consider. But just how accurate are those Environmental Protection Agency stickers on automobiles that tell us how much mileage we get per gallon?
ConsumerAffairs.Com says that's what congress wants to know, and recently it decided to take up the issue. And with gas prices as high as $2.00 per gallon, lawmakers couldn't have better timing.
Lawmakers say the test procedures used to determine fuel economy ratings are off.
New or used: every year, millions of Americans hit the car lots and look for a car.
Mark Wickman wants to get rid of his 1998 Ford Explorer and went to the CarMax on Laurens Road in Greenville County to do it. He says, “I'm looking for price, that’s a big factor. I'm looking for a comfortable car because I spend a lot of time in my car.”
Ordinarily Mark wouldn't give much thought to the E.P.A.’s sticker plastered on the window. It tells potential buyers how many miles the car can get per gallon of gas. But with gas prices promising to go up, and go up rapidly, Mark says miles per gallon are very important.
“I make my living driving and I spend my day driving. So every time the price of gas goes up, it comes out of my pocket,” says Mark.
According to ConsumerAffairs.Com, lawmakers are now questioning the accuracy of those E.P.A. stickers and want to pass a law that would require tests to be more like real-world driving; which means more high-speed driving, aggressive accelerating and stopping, and more short trips.
Bill Woodson, Sales Manager at CarMax, says, “I think stickers are a good guide for folks to use and those stickers, those numbers are going to be pretty accurate.”
Woodson says the E.P.A. ratings are already accurate enough and have always been just a guide.
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