Energy must be bigger story

The Consumer Federation reported last week that there was a huge difference in fuel economy within the same class of cars. Why your paper did not carry this news I find hard to comprehend.

Such an article, or series, can revolutionize the energy crisis in the world: Why can one manufacturer in a particular car size group, say compacts, make vehicles that get twice the fuel mileage as the least effective name?

Why has almost every administration since the 1970s, when it was first enacted, allowed auto manufacturers to successfully beg (bribe?) them to reduce the mandatory mileage standards? Is that why GM, Ford and Chrysler (to a lesser degree) are becoming extinct when for almost a century, they were the Big 3?

Or have they simply given the American public what they wanted until fuel prices exploded and are totally unprepared to deal with the consequences?

Sun-Sentinel (Florida)