Mandated Mischief: Obama’s 54.5 MPG Standard

Pajamas Media ^ | 7/28/2011 | Marlo Lewis

[IbJensen]

Another 'deal' by the worthless anti-president who is being very successful in his first term of accomplishing his mission: destruction of America! He's truly a man of many talents: now he's an automotive engineer.

What clueless, sycophantic fools support him in his mission!

[The Antiyuppie]

Well, the article says that they’ll sign anything 15 years away...actually, they could have agreed that their cars would get 1500 miles per gallon on cat urine, because, God willing, this agreement will be ripped up in 2013.

[Jacquerie]

I didn’t know Congress passed such a law. I mean, it must have, right? It says right there in Article I Section 1 that Congress has all legislative powers therein granted.

[equaviator]

A local Detroit news station(s) report that “GM has the new Volt on the road...”...as if!

[Don Corleone]

In any event, lawmakers did not think

That about covers it!

[gogogodzilla]

1500 miles per gallon on cat urine

Unbeliever! Destroyer of Gaia, the mother of us all!@!1!! We must have no less than 6,734,500,000 miles per gallon of unicorn urine.

;-P

[Cannoneer]

In hindsight, if the pols of past had the foresight to prop up the railroad infrastructure and not put all of the freight on the highways we could save more fuel than any CAFE standard. The cabal of the teamsters and govt in the late 50s and 60s that used "national defense" as an excuse to build the Interstate system destroyed the American railway systems. Now it costs as much or more to travel by rail as it does to fly. Does any of this make sense?

But now we have some wonderful jogging trails!!

BTW what existing or conceivable vehicle that gets 54.5 MPG would anyone buy for more than short commutes? Oh that's right we need to be herded into urban areas so we can utilized the wonderful mass transit systems that exist in say; Orlando, Tampa, Toledo?

[Cannoneer]

PS: I just realized how they will achieve the new CAFE standards. As the country is going downhill now......

[Raycpa]

cars would get 1500 miles per gallon on cat urine

That is supposed to be a secret. The big auto company's purchased that patent in the 30's.

[not2worry]

Who is going to be able to buy these new cars? The USA will be looking like postcards from Cuba soon.

[central_va]

Instead of fossil fuels why don't we strap large animals to wheeled carts and have them pull us around? Has this ever been tried before?

[arrdon]

Americans will save about a zillion dollars just getting his sorry asa voted out of office.

[CharlyFord]

Why stop at 54.5 mpg?? Why not mandate 154.5 mpg??

“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made politicians.” - - - Mark Twain

[Covenantor]

cars would get 1500 miles per gallon on cat urine That is supposed to be a secret. The big auto company's purchased that patent in the 30's

Ahh...that explains the feral cats sleeping on my manifold in NYC. Beta field testers. Too bad one of them tangled with the fan.

[BobL]

I think one of the problems Obama and the Democrats have with America is that white families are still having way too many kids.

But if you force them to drive 2-seaters, that problem goes away.

[hoosierham]

The 1976 ? Honda mini-hatchback was EPA rated at 54mpg as I remember.

If you simply make nothing but tiny two-seaters like the former Geo 3-cylinder hatchback and similar ,the 50mpg car can be built TODAY.

Mandates are the key;to hell with what the people want!

It is what the Leader says that determines the outcome.Sieg heil Teleprompter!

[Ole Okie]

Oh that's right we need to be herded into urban areas so we can utilized the wonderful mass transit systems that exist in say; Orlando, Tampa, Toledo?

Yo ho! This fine centralized planning is going to work for us about like it did for the USSR.

[BobL]

“Now it costs as much or more to travel by rail as it does to fly. Does any of this make sense?”

It does in Europe too, so what’s your point (or did you stumble on to the wrong website)?

[Bayan]

This is all about driving the cost of private vehicles up and forcing the mass of people into public transportation. Private vehicles will be the province of the elite and pretty soon they’ll have their own private driving lanes, just like Moscow used to be.

[equaviator]

"I say this whole thing is against nature!"