I remember verbally beating IndyMidiots over the head for using this lie back in 2004.
Don’t tell me that we’re going to have to start doing this all over again!
“I want to be a partner, a good partner, to help (the auto industry) transition to a clean energy future,†Hillary Clinton said Monday in unveiling her draconian 40 mpg mandate on the industry by 2020.
Then she tee-boned her new partner with the snide comment that engine technology had changed little since Model T’s started rolling off the assembly line. “In fact,†she said, “that Model T got better gas mileage than your typical SUV does today.â€
The comment is revealing for the Left’s continued nostalgia for “the good ol’ days†of pre-modern America. It is also a convenient untruth.
Her misinformation apparently is sourced form those auto experts at the Sierra Club which claimed in a 2003 ad that the Model T got 25 mpg while the average SUV gets 18 mpg. Wrong, says Ford Motor: The typical Tin Lizzy got 15 mpg.
Furthermore, the Model T weighed just 1,200 pounds, lacked any safety equipment, and had a top speed of 45 mpg with a tailwind. Today’s SUVs weigh 4,200 pounds thanks in part to federally mandated bumpers, airbags, catalytic converters, roof-crush standards, side-impact steel bars, and so on – not to mention creature comforts like AC and heated leather seats.
When adjusted for all these amenities, a Ford SUV is 4.5 times as efficient as Henry Ford’s original.
Of course, it is a Clinton, so you know they’re lying when their lips move.