Yeah, I don't get why they never measure it this way. Many larger families I know drive the evil SUV, 4 door pickup or minivan because if they didn't they would have to take two cars everywhere they go. One loaded SUV is far more efficient then a pair of mid size sedans.

SUV's and light trucks don't make the automakers money? What is he smoking? It's those SUV's and pickups that have kept the American auto industry in the black when they are in the black. That's what America wants Barry. Its those stupid little death trap green cars that nobody wants that's puts Detroit in the red.

Somebody else said it already but it's too perfect:

This new affordable-yet-highly-profitable Electric Car that President Genius speaks of should be called "The Chevy Unicorn" in his honor.

If Obama had his way, we would have greener iPads and iPhones that we hand crank to leave a lighter footprint on the grid.

I believe that is in the works.

Agreed Jim, the big station wagon went extinct when I was a kid in the early 1980's. It was a big change when the family traded the last wagon for our first Chrysler mini-van.

My dad still wanted the wagon, but they were not available anywhere. I think he disliked that he was losing his V8 powered wagon for a very underpowered 4 cylinder mini-van since they didn't have bigger choices yet (the second van had a V6).

I think my mom liked the van better as she liked riding up higher. Ironically mini-vans (and big wagons)have far more utility then the SUV's. The folks never moved on to SUV's like most, they found them stupid. Dad has gotten over not having a huge wagon.

I think people forget too, that tradespeople had plenty of big wagons for working too. So they ended up moving into light trucks as well. One of my neighbors is a painting contractor, and he is still babying a 1982 chevy big wagon for work. He has set up his crews with full size vans and pickups but he drives the wagon. He prefers the wagon because the town tickets commercial vehicles in residential zones so he cannot take a van home.

Obama’s ability to “understand the market” resulted in his encouraging General Motors to produce the Chevy Volt, which is to date the second worst-selling American car in modern history—behind the leaky-roofed, 1963–1966 Studebaker Wagonaire—with sales of only 2,029 vehicles since its introduction in 2010.

Actually, if you look at the damage done by buses to the environment (buses do more damage per passenger to the roads than subcompacts do, which produces particulate pollution plus the fact that buses use more gasoline per passenger mile) you will see that buses are environmental disasters. So Obama's use of the bus is environmentally suspect.

The market doesn't want it because the public can't use it. There is little or no utility in a SmartforTwo or in an electric car with less room than it's gas or diesel powered twin that goes 40 miles. Much less utility at double the cost even after hiding most of the cost increase in the government.

This administration defines leadership as dictating what is good for you regardless of your wants, needs and costs while using a flawed misanthropic basis for deciding what is supposed to be good for you.