Millions for Mars or Millions for better research for fuel economy cars?

Question

Should we have spent millions to see if there water on Mars, Or should we have spent millions in better research for fuel economy car that will help millions of people?

Answer 1

I'm gonna hafta go with the second one.  You bring up an excellent point that I've never thought of.  I'm starring this one.

Answer 2

cars

Answer 3

Fuel economy of course, there already was an electric car. You should see the movie "Who killed the electric car", but the gas companies will not let these things out. I hope that these high prices and consumers wanting a change will bring about another electric car that can not be taken away!

Answer 4

In my opinion, NASA is one of the biggest wastes of money in this country.

Answer 5

Neither...The money should have been put towards education and better public transportation.

Answer 6

with gas prices the way they are, millions are being spent on more efficient cars.

you might keep in mind that it's only folks in the US that think we should all have SUVs and essentially free gas.

the rest of the world is more sane.

and already drives smaller, more efficient cars.

Answer 7

We also spend millions of dollars to make action movies with special effects that go straight to video.  We spend vastly more than NASA's budget on NASCAR-licensed merchandise.  In India, they spend some significant percentage of their GNP on fancy weddings.  

Vehicle research has been well-organized, on-going for many years, and some of it has been funded by NASA, which is also concerned with fuel economy for aircraft.

Answer 8

Research for fuel economy cars.

Answer 9

how about both? They are both infinitely better use of money that the Iraq  war (or any war). But to answer your question fuel economy would have been better.

Answer 10

you seem to think that one is more important than the other, or that somehow you cant do one without doing the other. nasa is primarily funded by public money, where as the automakers are primarily funded from private money. you want better fuel economy? tell the government to let the automakers do their jobs, and quit adding regulations just because they can.

the government says the automakers have to build cars that get 35mpg by a certain date, but then the government turns around and says that the engines that would allow the automakers do that have to meet excessively stringent emission standards, which in turn hurts fuel economy. then the government sets a new standard for safety regulations, which adds weigh which hurts fuel economy.

get congress to stop making regulations that are contradictory in nature, and let the automakers work.

Answer 11

Mute point to your question.  As long as the planet ( us) are dependant on crude oil, we are where we are.  

Want to see the price of gas drop over night by a 1/3 or 1/2?  Stop buying OPEC *( Saudi Arabian oil ). We can't we need the oil you say. Yep, you're right, but this contention was made 10 years ago with the same responses.  As long as we don't drill our own oil sources ( law suited to not to by the greenees ), the longer we'll be at the mercy of foreighn oil and the prices that come with via the commodity stock speculators who are all millionaires from the % royalties they make from morans who buy the inflated over priced barrels causing all of us to spend our paychecks at the pumps.

Answer 12

It has to be cars...why pump money into dreams when you can do something for the world with the invention of 'cleaner' cars?

Furthermore, Cars can earn you profits; would a trip to mars yield the same returns?