[lbo-talk] Are EPA mileage estimates bogus?

[Jordan Hayes]

San Francisco, March 3, 2005- Extensive "real world" road testing of
hundreds of new vehicles by AAA has found that the actual miles per
gallon achieved during daily use of a vehicle falls well short of
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates. AAA's driving tests
found dozens of examples wherein vehicle miles per gallon of the 2003
and 2004 model years were overestimated because of outdated 30-year-old
EPA tests.

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