[mewzilla]

Gee, wonder if Hillary Clinton supports this?

[globalheater]

I don't see much sense in this regulations - fuel prices will bring the same result anyhow.

[CPOSharky]

When the big SUVs are taxed or regluated into uselessness (mpg regs, small engine, no power), look for the elites to move into the big supercab pickup trucks.

[babyface00]

a time when regulators didn't foresee such large vehicles being used as the family car

Gee. Ya think its possible that legislation primarily designed for social engineering could maybe have unintended consequences?

The reason such large vehicles are being used as family cars is exactly because the legislation enacted in the 70s was taken to extremes by the enviro-wackos.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I support this move. Why exempt these huge gas guzzlers? We should also drill in ANWR.

[Shomer]

...a time when regulators didn't foresee such large vehicles being used as the family car...

And this statement sums up the whole "Us" vs "Them" mentality that dominates government.

Allegedly in a free country that is for "We The People", one would think that the fact that "(Light trucks now represent more than half of all vehicles sold)" probably means that "We The People" have made a conscientious choice to purchase vehicles with notoriously inferior fuel mileage than "so-called" Econo-boxes.

Down at the dealership the sales weasels don't threaten violence on their customers if the customer is looking at Environmentalist Approved vehicles, which leads me to believe that We The People want this forbidden fruit that the Nanny State and their enablers are so desperate to keep from us.

The cynic in me wants to believe that the Fe'ral Government realizes that they are beholden to oil barons abroad and anti-American Marxist neo-luddites at home, so instead of telling these fringe yet vocal malcontents to "shove off", it is easier to victimize (yet again) the relatively pacific "We The People".

If the No Energy For America Cabal didn't have their way, and we had increased nuclear power relieving natural gas and foreign oil demand; if we didn't further restrict "compliant" coal; if we could have drilled ANWR, Florida's gulf, California - in other words, didn't interfere in the free market then we could all drive Peterbuilts if we wanted. Now by dictating to manufacturers that they must produce underpowered wind-up vehicles that get half-hearted approving nods from the perpetually disgruntled, a disenchanted SUV shopper might just as well turn away from buying that high profit margin vehicle that GM, Ford et al so desparately need to underwrite their retirees.