Posted on 05/19/2009 9:07:12 PM PDT by GreatDaggar
I wonder how many people Obama killed yesterday.
Arguably, it was in the tens of thousands.
With one stroke of the presidential pen, surrounded by lackeys on short leashes, he designed the automobile of the future. No more will Detroit make cars according to people’s tastes, needs and market demand.
Now, we will have Obama cars.
And why not. Hitler designed cars, why should our Fuehrer be denied the pleasure?
Without congressional approval, without explaining it to the people, without trying to build public support, Caesar has declared that vehicles will get more gas mileage and give off less carbon dioxide. A man who’s never taken an engineering class has redesigned the American automobile.
And the near-daily assault on our system and liberties continues. The imperial presidency has given us not a king, but a pharaoh, a sun god whose every whim is our command.
But this isn’t about the arrogance of power, this is about how many of us will have to die because of this man’s arrogance of power.
To meet the dictator’s whim, American automobiles will have to be far smaller and lighter. Families accustomed to SUVs and mini-vans will have to crowd into light, compact sardine cans.
Which will spill them like so much produce onto the highway when they wreck.
See, American vehicles get the gas mileage they get because American vehicles are heavy. And they aren’t heavy to make them less fuel efficient, they are heavy to make them safe. All that reinforced steel, the stuff that holds a car together in a wreck, Obama’s formula means that has to go.
Lighter vehicles get better gas mileage. Obama has decreed that we get better gas mileage. That means he has decreed that we drive lighter vehicles.
That means he has decreed that more of us will die on the highways.
As the use of minivans and SUVs went up, the highway mortality rate went down. Why? Because people in minivans and SUVs are safer. Safety is directly proportional to vehicle size. The death rate in small vehicles is higher than the death rate in large vehicles.
And he is making vehicles smaller.
Hopefully it won’t be one of your children who has to be sacrificed for Chancellor Obama’s volks wagen.
But it’s more than dead people. It’s also expense and availability.
Pick-up trucks, for example, will probably become the most-expensive vehicles on the highway. To meet the mileage and emission standards, the most common single vehicle in American today – the pick-up truck – will probably be priced between $75,000 and $100,000, some have estimated.
Every car, the White House says, will probably increase in price something like $1,300. The argument is that that will be made up in savings on gasoline – except that new Democrat policies are expected to dramatically increase the price of gasoline.
And the electricity won’t be cheap, either. With the Caesar, as a candidate, pledging to bankrupt any company that tried to open a coal-fired power plant, and with his administration ruling out nuclear power and canceling federal leases to search for oil and gas, the price of electricity will soar and plugging a car in will cost more than pulling it up to the pump.
Also, you can forget four-wheel drive, all-wheel drive and air conditioning. Those are gas-guzzling luxuries that can’t be accommodated under the new rules.
The federal government has metastasized into something at direct variance with the Constitution, it is a monster that seeks to control every corner of our lives and our economy.
And now the Fuehrer is designing cars.
Maybe we misunderstood the campaign motto. As some have suggested, maybe what he was saying was: Chains you can believe in.
And live to regret.
- by Bob Lonsberry © 2009
Yeah, but we’ll have ObamaCare to help mend our broken bodies (the ones that aren’t killed in the little death trap cars).
We have no public transporation in our rural area.
And to think freepers were rooting for Obama to beat Clinton, thinking he would be easy to beat.
We'll need a “4 second rule”, rather than our current “2 second rule” for how closely an Obama Cafe Car could SAFELY follow another vehicle.
You wouldn’t want to ride a Bus WITH Obama-Cafe tires, anyway.
You'll probably have one of these then...
DO you have any idea how much methane those things produce?!
Everyone with a fifth wheel or a trailer will be ordered by Zero’s Gestapo to pull it with a team of horses or his Gestapo hauls you off to Zero’s camps. Never again is ringing hollow!
“And to think freepers were rooting for Obama to beat Clinton, thinking he would be easy to beat.”
I never understood the logic. An obviously power-hungry shrill woman with a history of being manipulative against a gradiose, eloquent but downright communistic, arrogant black man who was all but bulletproof with but the word of “racism.”
Hillary & Bill were the old guard Dems. They aren’t the ulta-wacky base that Obama represents. So it goes.
on the upside..we can all be proud that in this country we no longer have racism, or a KKK, or those pesky african american hating dangerous skin heads.
Because if we did, you know this president would be dead by now.
I rather have a VW than an O-bile (Obamautomobile)
“Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer!”
For a man who has said he doesn’t want to run the auto companies, nary a week goes by without him mandating/directing/coercing ‘his’ auto companies action/directions.
This guy is more dangerous than I thought possible.
This afternoon I saw one of those toy-like Mercedes Smart Cars involved in an accident. It was hit by a very small, old, Mitsubishi Mirage at relatively low speed—probably not over 30 mph. Despite Mercedes’ bloviating about its safety features, the driver did not walk away.
Back in the USSA.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
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