The overall city-highway average gives the Ford Fusion an advantage over the VW Jetta. For rural America the Jetta is the obvious champ, but for the vast majority of Americans who live in cities and suburbs and are faced with stop-start traffic, often in markets where diesel fuel is grossly overpriced, the Fusion is going to serve them better.
Don't get me wrong. I'd rather the diesel won. It's a simpler design and it will have a longer service life because diesel engines last forever and there's no battery to worry about. But the Fusion wins this green contest comfortably because of the sensational city mileage. Also worth noting is how the Fusion comfortably beats the Toyota Camry Hybrid for fuel mileage.
In reply to: "'Green Car Journal' announces 2009 Green Car of the Year"
November 20, 2008
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Sloppy reporting . . .
. . . for Cnet to say it is more of a Democrat issue based on a nine-to-five split of state legislatures without even paying attention to who is considering such a tax or where they are in their legislative calendar.
In any case, sales tax is fair game for these downloads -- anything other than standard sales tax is completely unacceptable.
April 13, 2006
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