[sgtbono2002]

Cafe worked so well when they did it before. Look at all the SUV’s it placed on the road.

I suppose this time we will all be driving tractor-trailers.

We need to stop passing stupid laws and start firing stupid lawmakers.

[bill1952]

Sigh. Move government regulations will solve everything. - Why not 100?

Next it will be mandated pedal power and selling your carbon credits to the Chinese.

Buy a horse!

[bikerman]

wont be no problem by 2020 we will part of Mexico and the law wont matter anyway.

[JohnLongIsland]

how the hell are mrs. clinton’s and mrs. pelosis’ private jets going to get 35mpg, with carbon credits?

[CindyDawg]

How about releasing restrictions and fines and letting Americans do what they do best, invent.

[CindyDawg]

How about releasing restrictions and fines and letting Americans do what they do best, invent.

[kingu]

Be it resolved by the people that every US Sentator who voted for this legislation must, by 7pm tomorrow, drive or ride only in vehicles that get at least 35 mpg, including their security details.

Yup, no more SUVs, no more police cruiser tails, no more armored limos, no more Cadis - let's see if that lasts the week. Oh, right, Senators don't have to live like the rest of us.

[Para-Ord.45]

sure, force the manufacturers to make smaller and smaller

cars to meet the higher MPG standard = more deaths on the

road = fat cats in Congress will continue to drive in their

limos.

[marsh2]

...clown cars

[P-40]

Wow....2020....that is so close I can taste it.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Probably with a blanket exception for alternative-fueled vehicles (all-ethanol, all-veggie-oil, natural gas, rechargeable electric). The big limos will use alternative fuels.

[Dick Vomer]

do I hear 200 mpg???

[CGTRWK]

The mileage measure was a major defeat for Detroit's Big Three automakers.

No, it is a major defeat for consumers who want to carry cargo, or 4 adults, or children in carseats, or drive off the pavement, or survive being hit by a drunk driver. Automakers are not the victims.

[B Knotts]

I read the rest of the article, and discovered that this isn't as bad as it looks.

It allows the government to adjust the fuel economy target based on cost-benefit analysis.

It does mean that the White House is going to need to be controlled by reasonable people, though.

[NewHampshireDuo]

And...in companion legislation, the Senate has just approved a redefinition of the mile. In 2020 the standard US mile will be reduced by 30% to 3700 feet.

[MainFrame65]

Now let’s pass a law that Pi = 3, and another that prohibits more than 2 significant digits after the decimal point. Who needs any more than that, after all?

[ricks_place]

The Big Three are on life support.

• Our government gives $3k subsides to hybrid buyers.
• Hybrid buyers get foreign made Toyotas and Hondas.
• Our tax money is killing the US auto industry.
• Autoworker taxes support their own job destruction.
• Subsidies would be unnecessary if hybrids were so great.
• Now the coup de grâce, increased cafe standards.

Good bye to Detroit's bread and butter. The Government at one time supported big business to the betterment of the Nation but now big business is evil. We are so stupid.

[listenhillary]

Get 50 mpg — in your own car

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/SavingandDebt/SaveonaCar/Get50MpgInYourOwnCar.aspx?page=1

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"It's kind of scary because you just don't know where it's really going to end up"

Sorry, Rick. I know exactly where this is going to end up.

• 50 mph national speed limits
• Caps on the number of miles you can drive per year without incurring special surcharges for "excess mileage"
• Building space consitioning temperature limits -- 80 F summer temperature limits and 65 winter temperature limits, first in federal buildings, then your office buildings, then your homes. Penalties for profligate and unconscionable consumption beyond your allowable baseline in your home.
• No more SUVs. Everybody driving a Prius
• $25 / day to park at your office building
• Forced carpooling. 2, 3 or 4 carpool lanes on the freeway with only one noncarpool lane for the GW deniers
• Monster penalty taxes on excessively large and environmentally destructive vehicles with the taxes paid immediately as a bonus for buyers of environmentally correct vehicles
• Federally mandated compact fluorescent bulbs and the outlawing of incandescents
• Complete slavery

Almost all of these things have already been introduced in various state legislatures

Where it WON'T wind up is drilling more holes in the ground to discover and exploit our God-given natural resources.

[RFEngineer]

2020?

What a bunch of wusses. If they really wanted to “do something” they would have set a 5 year timeline and let the electorate decide if they should remain in office. As it stands, this is firmly over the horizon and will never be implemented, and will be repealed or loopholed to death well before 2020.

I disagree with this, of course, but hey, you can respect a principled stand, even if misguided.

Republicans and Democrats collectively are a bunch complete liberal wusses for passing something so they could claim to be “green” in the near-term elections.

Conservatives have a long row to hoe if they think the GOP is recoverable from this death-spiral that GWB has put us in that makes crap like this possible.