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In today’s society I constantly see large SUV’s rumbling down the road sucking up the valuable petroleum products of this country. I am not against the use of SUV’s but I do feel that the Automakers in this country need to focus on fuel methods other than gasoline. Although most environmentalists would argue that we need to switch all vehicles to electric, I think that automakers should look into putting diesel engines into more cars and trucks. Although cars with electric motors in cars such as the Honda Insight have the best miles per gallon numbers with up to sixty eight miles the gallon around town(EPA), I feel that there are better alternatives with better performance and without the expense. There are compromises in the works between the Big Three auto makers, the United Auto Workers union and environmental activists are negotiating to try and come up with a joint proposal for what they have come to conclude is the most realistic way to improve the fuel economy of the U.S. automotive fleet (Ball 1). For Environmentalists, the realization is setting in that a severe toughening of the federal government’s fuel economy rule is going to be a political uphill battle. So some of them are concluding, the only way to get