Posted on 05/21/2009 3:57:09 AM PDT by rellimpank
The Tuesday headline was clear: "Obama's new rules will transform U.S. auto fleet."
The Associated Press picked it up from there: "Some soccer moms will have to give up hulking SUVs. Nearly everybody else will drive smaller cars, and more of them will run on electricity. The higher mileage and emissions standards set by the Obama administration on Tuesday, which begin to take effect in 2012 and are to be achieved by 2016, will transform the American car and truck fleet.
"The new rules would bring new cars and trucks sold in the United States to an average of 35.5 miles per gallon, about 10 mpg more than today's standards. Passenger cars will be required to get 39 mpg, light trucks 30 mpg. That means cars and trucks on American roads will have to become smaller, lighter and more efficient."
Eric Fedewa, vice president of global powertrain forecasting for an auto consulting firm, told The AP the changes will make pickup trucks so much more expensive that they'll be used almost exclusively for work.
Oh, heavens. We're growing faint.
The wise and powerful wizard Obama, having loaned taxpayer money to Detroit to "bail them out" -- thus avoiding simple bankruptcy, where the firms might have shed their overly costly union contracts and emerged to renewed profitability -- now simply decrees what kind of cars Detroit will make. He might as well just put Howard Waxman, Charlie Rangel and Barney Frank in the executive offices at the Big Three, in fedoras and double-breasted striped zoot suits like Ayn Rand's Wesley Mouch, Cuffy Meigs, and Emma Chalmers, and have done with it.
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I am not giving up my truck or SUV, espcially for a tiny car that cannot hold a family.
If the government decides it's best for you, you might have to move.
“I always laugh at the big SUV with the Obama sticker. Some I yell to at stop signs. “Hey are you going to give your SUV to OBAMA?””
I stopped behind a Volvo 4WD station wagon the other day near Boulder, Co. Obama sticker on the rear window and the license read “X GAIA”. A real friend of the earth there.
Seems that the plan is being advanced faster that the public can digest it........
The good news is the current sovereignty rumblings in several states, Montana, Texas, etc...and even California seems to be awakening.
Maybe Mr. Joseph should take advantage of the Fla. automobile franchise law to the extent it has any viability in a bankruptcy situation. And if it doesn’t, just what did Mr. Joseph think would happen when Chrysler ended up in a Chap 11, which, btw, was inevitable?
I'm anxiously waiting for Obama to start carting his arrogant ass around in a stretched, up-armored smart car.
From my dead cold hands.
He’s going to create a new bureaucracy with this. There will be a limited number of larger vehicles made, and consequently a waiting list of people who are going to want these vehicles. I predict that those who want them are going to have to produce a ‘certificate of need’ to prove that they are entitled to own one of these rarer gas guzzlers. Graft and cheating will result.
“Just wait until the SUV’s and trucks are banned because they are a danger to the smaller, lighter cars.”
EXACTLY!
I have read the proposal from last Fall. Do you have any further info? I am debating whether to liquidate mine and keep the money or let it go for a awhile.
Last Summer I put all of it into the "Stable Market" fund and have actually made about 2 percent. I am out of work and could really use the money. I don't want to lose the extra ten percent to taxes but I feel it's a wash since I didn't lose any money in the crash.
Here’s what I know:
When I moved to Utah from Ohio nearly three years ago, I saw something I’d never seen before; tractors with THREE trailers on them. Not the one or two trailers I’d seen. THREE.
Barreling down on me in my Toyota Corolla in the Virgin Gorge, up and down, winding through the mountains. Trust me, nothing scares you more than being in a small car and seeing that in the rear view mirror. Knowing there isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell the the laws of physics can stop that thing. I no longer drive into Vegas on my own. I take the St. George Shuttle; my nerves can’t take it. The triple trailers are also a function of fuel efficiency. So here is my question:
Where is the Transportation Safety Czar? We seem to have Czars for everything, for every condition!
Who is responsible for tallying the cost of these triple tractor trailers, competing for road space with the Toyota Corollas and Smart Cars of the world? Shouldn’t someone be in charge of at least counting the casualties?
I’m just sayin...
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
It is time for a revolution... of more than the mind.
They better bring their lunch, and plenty of fire power.
I'm 1/4 mile off the road and they are in range as soon as they pull in my drive!
Do not these plans have to go through Congress, or is Odumbo decreeing this through executive order?
Maybe he has a twin.
“...thus avoiding simple bankruptcy, where the firms might have shed their overly costly union contracts and emerged to renewed profitability...”
BUMPITY-BUMP-BUMP-BUMP!
Why do I have this sudden urge to tear up the countryside with my big old Dodge Ram Cummings diesel?
Jerks!
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