Gas Mileage, Gay Marriage, Other Things
By RAY HANANIA • Friday, May 18, 2012
Southwest News-Herald, Chicago
For all the talk that we hear from people who want to kick out all those “illegal aliens,” the same people are not talking about why American cars get less miles per gallon than European-made vehicles.
A recent survey by TrueCar.com shows the average MPG for an American car is 21.2 while it is 27.6 for South Korean drivers. It’s still better in Europe — 23.4 MPG, and in Japan it’s 25 MPG.
That’s six more miles to the gallon. Most cars take 17 gallons to fill up so that’s an extra 102 miles on a tank of gas for foreign drivers, and 102 less for us Americans.
You remember “Americans,” right? They’re the people who led the world in terms of defending free speech, freedoms and even ingenuity.
Well, all that hatred from Sept. 11, 2001 has sure changed a lot of that. We spend more time blaming our rising unemployment rate not on the greed of our American businesses but rather on those “illegal immigrants” who are taking our jobs. read more »







