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    Prez. Obama blames India and China's increased demand for rising fuel prices.



    According to President Barak Obama, rising demand in India and China is what is causing fuel price rise. Periodic increase in fuel prices has caused much distress to all. Obama has said that increase in fuel prices was solely due to growing demand in these two countries. He has now tabled a need for all US vehicles to average 23.16 kmpl in the next few years.
    Demand for oil is rising faster than it can be supplied and this is what is causing repeated price rise. Demand for fuel in India and China needs to be met and unless steps are taken to increase fuel efficiency of vehicles the situation will only escalate.
    The new plan for higher fuel efficiency has seen support from top auto manufacturers all over the globe. Ford, GM, BMW, Honda, Nissan, Toyota and Volvo account for over 90% of vehicles sold in US. They have all supported this scheme of bringing out fuel efficient cars by 2017 which would reduce the country's dependence on foreign fuel.


    Source: Obama blames India and China's increased demand for hike in fuel prices | Rush Lane

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    This ain't diplomacy, this is a lawsuit! Anyways, the bottom line is that to some extent he is right, but fuel prices are not so relate-able so directly. OPEC has to secure its future, keeping in mind the national & international inflation.
    But for achieving 23 kmpl, they'll have to end the rule of those gas guzzling SUV's. The common car might achieve 23 kmpl, atleast on paper, under ideal conditions but the 3-4 Litre SUV's have grim chances, although its possible.
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    News approved
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    • #3
      Obama has lost it completely. Most Indian cars average around 15-20 kmpl. Most American car average around 3-8kmpl. Obama doesnt know that the limo he uses has 4litre+ V8 engine and most American cars have V6s and V8s. He should probably administer those issues first then blame emerging economies like India and China for rise in fuel prices.

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      • #4
        Obama should know we indians use 2 wheeler more than 4 wheelers even today.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by freekoo View Post
          Obama has lost it completely. Most Indian cars average around 15-20 kmpl. Most American car average around 3-8kmpl. Obama doesnt know that the limo he uses has 4litre+ V8 engine and most American cars have V6s and V8s. He should probably administer those issues first then blame emerging economies like India and China for rise in fuel prices.
          +1. They should look at cleaning their own mess first before throwing muck at others.

          He's just jealous that we're doing well.... so well that america is no longer a super power.. heck, no power at all.

          Just 2 decades back they had a say in everything, today they still think they do. They still talk, only difference is that its still the same BS talk and they have no one listening.

          Even our Tata and mahindra trucks (or suv's/mpv's) which are a decade old will give a run for their gas guzzling, feature rich, fully loaded, techno loaded cages.
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          • #6
            Cut some slack to this dude, he was handed a country that was facing financial crisis like never before, he is just cleaning the mess done by Bush and he is frustrated. And we all know frustrated people are bound to speak sometimes rubbish.
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            • #7
              Would surely make a good market for tata to export an updated Nano!!


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              • #8
                Originally posted by Samarth 619 View Post
                Obama has now tabled a need for all US vehicles to average 23.16 kmpl in the next few years.
                haha! what's the plan?

                Tata Nano's for everyone!


                it's time to resurrect the GM EV1 project.

                or is this an Ad for GM's Volt?
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by freekoo View Post
                  Most American car average around 3-8kmpl.
                  That's not quite right; these days all the ads featured are based only on MPG & there's almost no ad without a MPG & that includes motorcycles & scooters as well. For that matter, Ford Mustang putting over 300 Bhp yields 32MPG which is like 15 Kmpl; they're realizing the importance of FE these days.

                  Originally posted by n_aditya
                  so well that america is no longer a super power.. heck, no power at all
                  IMO ^^^ is the key issue & not anything else.
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                  • #10
                    If this topic came up in liveleak.com I would have abused him like hell,cant abuse him here.

                    His country is hit with debt and people are abusing the govt for the healthcare plan and no of jobless is increasing than ever before.

                    That bloody hippy caused the war of iraq destroyed it,destroying Libya now.
                    Funding the rebls in middle-east countries!

                    I guess he's the worst president US has ever had.

                    he's harming the world more than osama itself

                    Atleast osama tried to finish off US,obama wants to finish off the world
                    Last edited by haxor; 08-01-2011, 08:31 PM.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by haxor View Post
                      If this topic came up in liveleak.com I would have abused him like hell,cant abuse him here.

                      His country is hit with debt and people are abusing the govt for the healthcare plan and no of jobless is increasing than ever before.

                      That bloody hippy caused the war of iraq destroyed it,destroying Libya now.
                      Funding the rebls in middle-east countries!

                      I guess he's the worst president US has ever had.

                      he's harming the world more than osama itself

                      Atleast osama tried to finish off US,obama wants to finish off the world
                      +1....He is being a hypocrite now.....hell... all american presidents
                      talk shit like this to divert public attention away from local issues as haxor quoted....

                      Its just for political mileage....elecions are round the corner....
                      unemployment is at an all time high....failing healthcare system.....
                      recesssion hit economy....debt ridden country...
                      the list can go on and on....

                      So what better way than to blame others....way to go Ob(s)ama....

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                      • #12
                        I read it somewhere that the US state California alone consumes more petrol than the whole India. How on earth Obama can blame India ? This is Ridiculous.

                        Let the stupid Americans stop producing gas guzzling V8 cars, end wars and end poking nose into other countries' businesses. This will end the crisis.

                        First, let they stitch the holes in their underwear then find holes in others'.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by aargee View Post
                          That's not quite right; these days all the ads featured are based only on MPG & there's almost no ad without a MPG & that includes motorcycles & scooters as well. For that matter, Ford Mustang putting over 300 Bhp yields 32MPG which is like 15 Kmpl; they're realizing the importance of FE these days.

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                          That is only a recent development.For decades American vehicles have been consuming over-the-top amount of fuels!Thank god for the defunct of the HUMMER crap!

                          anyway,just curious..how exactly does India's and Chinas need rise the price?
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                          • #14
                            Well they have cars with 6 litre engines even. Bikes that consume less than 10 KMPL. Still they call India and China as the reason for fuel shortage? What a comedy sir ji! Instead of doing silly things like this they should take up some nice initiatives like promoting CNG like they do in India.
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                            • #15
                              To all of us venting out on US, the white collared IT jobs are main driving force of our nation. Personally, I'd thank every every jobless in US, otherwise, we wouldn't be able to survive the chaos here.

                              Anyway, my point is not to support Obama, but, his points are partially true that the entire developing nation's oil consumption has gone up. Had US realized this in 70's when the gas price was less than 70 cents a gallon & thought about FE, they could've worked miracle.

                              They're probably realizing their mistake, when we're all walking their path.

                              Ranjit - I'm talking the present scenario & I'm aware of the GT500 yielding 5-6 Kmpl
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