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Obama orders new fuel standards for future
breitbart ^ | 5/21/10 | Eric Werner

Posted on 05/21/2010 10:00:36 AM PDT by Nachum

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama called for first-ever mileage and emissions standards for big rig and work trucks Friday, seeking to limit pollution from the large vehicles that contribute a big share of it.

With a presidential memorandum signed in the Rose Garden, Obama also ordered federal agencies that have already brought out new standards for cars and light trucks for the 2012-2016 model years to begin work on even stronger rules for 2017 and beyond.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cars; democrat; democrats; fuel; impeachobama; new; obama; orders; truck; trucks
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1 posted on 05/21/2010 10:00:37 AM PDT by Nachum
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, ping


2 posted on 05/21/2010 10:01:06 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Nachum
The King has spoken.

Long live the King.

3 posted on 05/21/2010 10:01:33 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

King? Nah, not enough for The One. His Imperial Majesty Obama, is more to his liking...that, or Dear Leader.


4 posted on 05/21/2010 10:03:33 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Nachum

Why doesn’t he just sign an executive order repealing the laws of thermodynamics and and inertial physics? That will make things easier.


5 posted on 05/21/2010 10:03:45 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: Nachum

By executive fiat, fuel economy standards are set.....there is no need for a Congress anymore.


6 posted on 05/21/2010 10:03:48 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
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To: Nachum

Will this apply to the Mexican and canadian trucks that will be doing the work “American truckers won’t do”


7 posted on 05/21/2010 10:04:14 AM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: Nachum
"first-ever mileage and emissions standards for big rig and work trucks Friday"

This sounds totally bogus or the reporterette has no background in vehicle emissions.

8 posted on 05/21/2010 10:04:30 AM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Nachum

I’ve got an idea for Mr. Obama: Why not just stop all exploration and refining of fuel, and just push our cars and trucks?

That would also dovetail nicely into Mrs. Obama’s obesity program.


9 posted on 05/21/2010 10:05:22 AM PDT by RexBeach
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To: Nachum

Wow....this clown fixes everything!!!!!!!!


10 posted on 05/21/2010 10:06:06 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (The Quran and Mein Kampf: if you've read one you've read them both.)
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To: Nachum

President Obama has my permission to issue all the rules he wants concerning events after 2017. It's a win-win. His liberal base gets fooled into thinking he's on the case, and I can rest assured that nothing will ever come of it.


11 posted on 05/21/2010 10:09:16 AM PDT by Nick Danger (Pin the fail on the donkey)
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To: Nachum
The Dems elected their mascot to the highest office in the land this time, their jackass.
12 posted on 05/21/2010 10:13:00 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (If Obama doesn't destroy America, she is indestructable.)
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To: Psycho_Bunny
It is the vast experience, super knowledge, and deep wisdom he got on every subject under sun by organizing communities in inner city Chicago. May be every American should go to inner city Chicago and lives there for one year in order to gain a knowledge on how to deal with every subject under the sun.

The above was super extreme sarcasm.

13 posted on 05/21/2010 10:15:50 AM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops)
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To: Psycho_Bunny
The Budweiser truck will be taken off the road and replaced by the Budweiser Primus?

My beer is going to be very expensive with the new freight rates.

14 posted on 05/21/2010 10:17:25 AM PDT by TYVets (I want to see Congress required to get their healthcare in VA hospitals)
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To: Nachum

“first-ever mileage and emissions standards for big rig and work trucks”

This is a lie. There are already emission standards that have been issued by the EPA. New standards took effect Jan 1, 2010.


15 posted on 05/21/2010 10:17:27 AM PDT by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Nachum

“work trucks”

This an attack on Ford Motors.


16 posted on 05/21/2010 10:19:51 AM PDT by Rebelbase (Don't think of work as 5 days on, 2 days off. Instead think 4 nights on, 3 off.)
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To: Nachum
I wonder if he asked California how their new diesel emissions standards are working for the states economy?
17 posted on 05/21/2010 10:33:01 AM PDT by rjamesca (Been there, done that . . .)
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To: Nachum

Obama is a dictator.


18 posted on 05/21/2010 10:38:52 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Nachum

895 days
11-2-2012


19 posted on 05/21/2010 10:40:08 AM PDT by Highway55
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To: Nachum

hope y’all enjoy your future on I-70 crossing Colorado, following the big rigs at no more than 25 MPH


20 posted on 05/21/2010 10:57:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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