While driving to work today, I was mulling over a few recent posts on economical cars, and the thought/question came to me:
[IIRC] In 1934, Hitler asked Porche to build their nation a car to carry two adults and three children at >100kph and >33mpg for <1000 marks.
Was Hitler the first person ever to issue a formal State/Gov-requirement for a production-vehicle minimum fuel efficiency?
The history of small fuel efficient cars.
The history of small fuel efficient cars.
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rjaypeters
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I've deleted the extraneous bits. I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable. It was intended more as a specific question whether anyone had ever mentioned fuel efficiency earlier.
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Hitler was also a vegetarian and against drinking and smoking.
So after a good day of speeding down the highway, using excess gas, I can feel perfectly content firing up the barbecue, wasting some more fossil fuel, and eating a large steak with some scotch and a cigar.
Lol. While the occasional right-winger likes to emphasize the commonalities between lefties and Hitler, they don't really hold water. I can't really begrudge people who want to drive hybrids and live pseudo-healthy lifestyles (I think some meat and booze are actually good for you, just don't overdo it. Ok, tobacco is never good for you, but what the heck...). I admit to actually taking fuel efficiency into account when car shopping. Having such tendencies doesn't mean you want to commit genocide...
On the other hand, if you want to get rid of coal, stop gas drilling, and protest nuclear power, and force everyone to "do more with less," you are following a socialist ideology which ultimately means reducing the population a lot...
So after a good day of speeding down the highway, using excess gas, I can feel perfectly content firing up the barbecue, wasting some more fossil fuel, and eating a large steak with some scotch and a cigar.
Lol. While the occasional right-winger likes to emphasize the commonalities between lefties and Hitler, they don't really hold water. I can't really begrudge people who want to drive hybrids and live pseudo-healthy lifestyles (I think some meat and booze are actually good for you, just don't overdo it. Ok, tobacco is never good for you, but what the heck...). I admit to actually taking fuel efficiency into account when car shopping. Having such tendencies doesn't mean you want to commit genocide...
On the other hand, if you want to get rid of coal, stop gas drilling, and protest nuclear power, and force everyone to "do more with less," you are following a socialist ideology which ultimately means reducing the population a lot...
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I've never heard of Godwin's law before but [after a wiki look up!] this was, indeed, actually one aspect of me posting. It was 'dual-purpose'; I am still interested on the factual side of who first began thinking of making mass produced cars to defined fuel economy targets (and ultimately if there have been forces at work to drive uneconomical car manufacture). But I think the connection I made with Hitler has driven that thread/question the wrong way. Sorry.
