Regarding Larry Lark’s Saturday car review: His rhapsodizing over the eight-cyclinder, 6.0 liter, 400 horsepower, 5 seconds from zero-to-60 mph muscle monster Pontiac GTO (Guzzles Tons of Oil) left out one piece of information. I know he’s bound to write positive reviews, whether about Hummers or Honda Insights, but we truly do need to know how much gas a 6.0 liter 400 hp car can chug-a-lug.
So long as the feds dodge control of fossil fuel consumption, when the Japanese have a lock on building fuel-misers, and since an undeniable part of our reason for war in Iraq is oil, it seems reasonable to take a square look at this new automotive dinosaur’s effect on our nation’s energy policy, should we ever decide to draft one.
Given all that, flogging muscle cars to a NASCAR-nutty population seems somewhat akin to passing out free cream-cheese Danish at Weight Watchers or announcing happy hour at an A.A. meeting. Though the new GTO (Gone Totally Overboard) may have the buying public drooling with desire, it still isn’t the greatest idea for our times.
No, I am not at all objective on this subject. We Prius hybrid drivers tend to be as rabid about our pennywhistle crusade against guzzlers as reformed smokers when someone upwind in their restaurant lights up.
Bob Graef
Marysville
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