Comments on: Why Can't the U.S. Have Toyota's 40 MPG 4WD Minivan? http://gas2.org/2008/09/22/why-cant-the-us-have-toyotas-40-mpg-4wd-minivan/ What is the future of fuel? What's new? What's next? Since 2007, Gas 2 has covered a rapidly changing world coming to terms with its oil addiction. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:57:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Holly http://gas2.org/2008/09/22/why-cant-the-us-have-toyotas-40-mpg-4wd-minivan/#comment-99278 Holly Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:09:43 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=978#comment-99278 I am sooo with you. Would buy this in a heartbeat. I am sooo with you. Would buy this in a heartbeat.

]]> By: This is the Hybrid Van Barack Obama Wants You to Buy (video) – Gas 2.0 http://gas2.org/2008/09/22/why-cant-the-us-have-toyotas-40-mpg-4wd-minivan/#comment-99259 This is the Hybrid Van Barack Obama Wants You to Buy (video) – Gas 2.0 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 16:26:54 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=978#comment-99259 [...] The real question, then, shouldn’t be why about Barack Obama would suggest a hybrid van.  Instead, the question should be about why we can’t have the Toyota Estima.  Back in 2008, when Gas 2.0 editor Nick Chambers wrote about the van, his research and questions led him to the conclusion that “Toyota didn’t think Americans would buy it because it wasn’t a ‘full-sized’ minivan ....” [...] [...] The real question, then, shouldn’t be why about Barack Obama would suggest a hybrid van.  Instead, the question should be about why we can’t have the Toyota Estima.  Back in 2008, when Gas 2.0 editor Nick Chambers wrote about the van, his research and questions led him to the conclusion that “Toyota didn’t think Americans would buy it because it wasn’t a ‘full-sized’ minivan ….” [...]

]]> By: JD http://gas2.org/2008/09/22/why-cant-the-us-have-toyotas-40-mpg-4wd-minivan/#comment-4787 JD Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:12:57 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=978#comment-4787 One thing about emissions that people don't get, much of the world concentrates their emissions regulations on CO2, and the only way to reduce CO2 is to burn less fuel; our regulations concentrate on NOX (oxides of nitrogen, a contributor to acid rain) and to reduce NOX you must reduce combustion temperatures, the easy way to reduce combustion temperatures is to richen the fuel mix (burn more gas) so when cars *are* brought to the US from Europe and Asia, they often get drastically worse fuel mileage. One thing about emissions that people don’t get, much of the world concentrates their emissions regulations on CO2, and the only way to reduce CO2 is to burn less fuel; our regulations concentrate on NOX (oxides of nitrogen, a contributor to acid rain) and to reduce NOX you must reduce combustion temperatures, the easy way to reduce combustion temperatures is to richen the fuel mix (burn more gas) so when cars *are* brought to the US from Europe and Asia, they often get drastically worse fuel mileage.

]]> By: JD http://gas2.org/2008/09/22/why-cant-the-us-have-toyotas-40-mpg-4wd-minivan/#comment-27150 JD Fri, 20 Feb 2009 05:12:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=978#comment-27150 One thing about emissions that people don't get, much of the world concentrates their emissions regulations on CO2, and the only way to reduce CO2 is to burn less fuel; our regulations concentrate on NOX (oxides of nitrogen, a contributor to acid rain) and to reduce NOX you must reduce combustion temperatures, the easy way to reduce combustion temperatures is to richen the fuel mix (burn more gas) so when cars *are* brought to the US from Europe and Asia, they often get drastically worse fuel mileage. One thing about emissions that people don’t get, much of the world concentrates their emissions regulations on CO2, and the only way to reduce CO2 is to burn less fuel; our regulations concentrate on NOX (oxides of nitrogen, a contributor to acid rain) and to reduce NOX you must reduce combustion temperatures, the easy way to reduce combustion temperatures is to richen the fuel mix (burn more gas) so when cars *are* brought to the US from Europe and Asia, they often get drastically worse fuel mileage.

]]> By: Eric http://gas2.org/2008/09/22/why-cant-the-us-have-toyotas-40-mpg-4wd-minivan/#comment-4786 Eric Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:06:40 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=978#comment-4786 I feel your pain. last year I inquired of transport Canada what I would need to do to import a hybrid Estima. In short... they told me all I can do is wait until it is 15 years old and is no longer subject to the protectionist regulations. Side note: Citroen has a new hybrid minivan that gets over 40mpg. Too bad they didn't sell in N. America. I am sure that the thought of a competitor beating them to the punch might make them rethink their financial arrangements with the Oil lobbyists. I feel your pain. last year I inquired of transport Canada what I would need to do to import a hybrid Estima. In short… they told me all I can do is wait until it is 15 years old and is no longer subject to the protectionist regulations.

Side note: Citroen has a new hybrid minivan that gets over 40mpg. Too bad they didn’t sell in N. America. I am sure that the thought of a competitor beating them to the punch might make them rethink their financial arrangements with the Oil lobbyists.

]]> By: Eric http://gas2.org/2008/09/22/why-cant-the-us-have-toyotas-40-mpg-4wd-minivan/#comment-27149 Eric Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:06:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=978#comment-27149 I feel your pain. last year I inquired of transport Canada what I would need to do to import a hybrid Estima. In short... they told me all I can do is wait until it is 15 years old and is no longer subject to the protectionist regulations. Side note: Citroen has a new hybrid minivan that gets over 40mpg. Too bad they didn't sell in N. America. I am sure that the thought of a competitor beating them to the punch might make them rethink their financial arrangements with the Oil lobbyists. I feel your pain. last year I inquired of transport Canada what I would need to do to import a hybrid Estima. In short… they told me all I can do is wait until it is 15 years old and is no longer subject to the protectionist regulations.

Side note: Citroen has a new hybrid minivan that gets over 40mpg. Too bad they didn’t sell in N. America. I am sure that the thought of a competitor beating them to the punch might make them rethink their financial arrangements with the Oil lobbyists.

]]> By: Buy American http://gas2.org/2008/09/22/why-cant-the-us-have-toyotas-40-mpg-4wd-minivan/#comment-4785 Buy American Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:22:51 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=978#comment-4785 This is another reason to buy American. Unfair trade practices by other countries. They constantly give us only what they want and hold back anything that they feel they should keep for themselves. Yet we are required to share all our technologies with the rest of the world. Japan is one of the worst offenders of this type of trading. Does the general public know that we are not allowed to sell Kodak film in Japan? Yet they flood our markets with fuji film. That's just one example. And take China dumping all their poisonous products on our door step. The American people better wise up. We should boycot all this one sided trade policy and tell them to stick it till they play fair!! This is another reason to buy American. Unfair trade practices by other countries. They constantly give us only what they want and hold back anything that they feel they should keep for themselves. Yet we are required to share all our technologies with the rest of the world.

Japan is one of the worst offenders of this type of trading. Does the general public know that we are not allowed to sell Kodak film in Japan? Yet they flood our markets with fuji film. That’s just one example.

And take China dumping all their poisonous products on our door step. The American people better wise up. We should boycot all this one sided trade policy and tell them to stick it till they play fair!!

]]> By: Buy American http://gas2.org/2008/09/22/why-cant-the-us-have-toyotas-40-mpg-4wd-minivan/#comment-27148 Buy American Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:22:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=978#comment-27148 This is another reason to buy American. Unfair trade practices by other countries. They constantly give us only what they want and hold back anything that they feel they should keep for themselves. Yet we are required to share all our technologies with the rest of the world. Japan is one of the worst offenders of this type of trading. Does the general public know that we are not allowed to sell Kodak film in Japan? Yet they flood our markets with fuji film. That's just one example. And take China dumping all their poisonous products on our door step. The American people better wise up. We should boycot all this one sided trade policy and tell them to stick it till they play fair!! This is another reason to buy American. Unfair trade practices by other countries. They constantly give us only what they want and hold back anything that they feel they should keep for themselves. Yet we are required to share all our technologies with the rest of the world.

Japan is one of the worst offenders of this type of trading. Does the general public know that we are not allowed to sell Kodak film in Japan? Yet they flood our markets with fuji film. That’s just one example.

And take China dumping all their poisonous products on our door step. The American people better wise up. We should boycot all this one sided trade policy and tell them to stick it till they play fair!!

]]> By: Justin http://gas2.org/2008/09/22/why-cant-the-us-have-toyotas-40-mpg-4wd-minivan/#comment-4784 Justin Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:17:22 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=978#comment-4784 Hell my parents bought a Dodge Grand Carvan in 2001, if this was out here in America that'd be there choice and they wouldnt be shelving the van now because of poor mpg and high gas prices Hell my parents bought a Dodge Grand Carvan in 2001, if this was out here in America that’d be there choice and they wouldnt be shelving the van now because of poor mpg and high gas prices

]]> By: Justin http://gas2.org/2008/09/22/why-cant-the-us-have-toyotas-40-mpg-4wd-minivan/#comment-27147 Justin Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:17:00 +0000 http://gas2.org/?p=978#comment-27147 Hell my parents bought a Dodge Grand Carvan in 2001, if this was out here in America that'd be there choice and they wouldnt be shelving the van now because of poor mpg and high gas prices Hell my parents bought a Dodge Grand Carvan in 2001, if this was out here in America that’d be there choice and they wouldnt be shelving the van now because of poor mpg and high gas prices

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