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Car dealers fear Obama fuel standards will make new vehicles unaffordable
fox news ^ | 7/30/2012 | fox news

Posted on 07/30/2012 3:34:27 AM PDT by tobyhill

The White House is expected to OK federal standards in the next few weeks that will nearly double vehicle gas mileage for vehicles by 2025, as automotive dealers warn the changes could slam the recovering retail car industry because they will come with sticker prices that will keep buyers off their lots.

The recommendations call for “fleet wide” gas mileage of 54.4 miles a gallon by 2015 -- essentially the average gas mileage for cars, trucks, vans and all other vehicles in a model year.

The Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration submitted their proposed 2017-2025 fuel-efficiency recommendations in mid-July to the administration’s Office of Management and Budget.

“Dealers support fuel economy increases,” Bailey Wood, a National Automobile Dealers Association spokesman told FoxNews.com Saturday. “But if dealers cannot put vehicles on the road, we cannot reduce greenhouse gases or our dependence of foreign oil.”

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1 posted on 07/30/2012 3:34:32 AM PDT by tobyhill
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It’s taken over 100 years to get fleet gas mileage to 30 now they think they can get to 54 mpg in the next 3 years?

Somebody is smoking dope.


2 posted on 07/30/2012 3:38:51 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Venturer
Well, Obama is known for smoking crack.
3 posted on 07/30/2012 3:41:00 AM PDT by tobyhill (Defund Obamacare Now)
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They don’t want you to have your own car.

The ultimate freedom is being able to jump in your own conveyance and go wherever you want, whenever you want.

You cannot control people who are that free.

Gasoline at $5+ per gallon, new cars starting at $35,000, “safety” and environmental gadgetry that is prohibitively expensive to repair, road regulations that force older cars off the road, exorbitant insurance rates, and the dwindling buying power of the Middle Class will force more people into the cities to use “public transportation”, making them ever more dependent upon the totalitarian collectivist state.


4 posted on 07/30/2012 3:41:42 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Venturer

If you mandated a car be made out of very light-weight metals and mandated that 3-cylinder light-turbo cars be the norm....then 54 mpg is very possible. Moving the national speed limit to 50 mph would also help. Course, none of these are very acceptable except in California.


5 posted on 07/30/2012 3:42:21 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: Venturer

Whachoo tawkin bout Willis?

6 posted on 07/30/2012 3:42:48 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: Westbrook
They don’t want you to have your own car.

That's what I think too. Just like they don't want people to have the freedom to fly.

7 posted on 07/30/2012 3:44:18 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: tobyhill

New cars are already unaffordable for many of us and another cash for clunkers program will drive us to bicycles.


8 posted on 07/30/2012 3:44:18 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: tobyhill
Related:

Ford's Trade-In: Truck to Use Aluminum in Place of Steel

Next, they'll be writing in new rules and regulations mandating warp drive technology.

9 posted on 07/30/2012 3:44:48 AM PDT by Timber Rattler (Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
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To: tobyhill
The Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration submitted their proposed 2017-2025 fuel-efficiency recommendations in mid-July to the administration’s Office of Management and Budget.

Either that's a typo and they mean "2025", or the Obamanistas have concluded it's the only way people are ever going to start buying Chevy Volts.

(Everything these idiots do hurts "their people" more than the people they are trying to "get even" with - "Cash for Clunkers" decreased the supply of used cars, and so raised used car prices. Who is most likely to want to buy a cheap, used car? The Republican demographic or the Democrat demographic?)

10 posted on 07/30/2012 3:49:55 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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The Democrat car dealers thought they were okay. Dictators dictate.


11 posted on 07/30/2012 3:49:55 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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"Another concern is the Obama administration’s plan -- which includes more hybrid and electric cars -- will not achieve its goal of “getting gas-guzzlers off the road” because motorists will keep their existing cars or be forced to buy less-fuel-efficient used ones, Wood said."

All the illegals are just ahead of our times. They drive rat rods with no insurance so they can dump them and run if necessary. Sounds like the future to me! ;-)

12 posted on 07/30/2012 3:53:13 AM PDT by Average Al (Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
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Cuba hasn't imported any cars from the US since 1959 -- it's amazing how long a car can last if it needs to.


13 posted on 07/30/2012 3:54:52 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: Sooth2222
I paid $300 for this Caravan a few weeks ago. Thank God for nostalgic old hippies who remember me living next door as a kid.

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14 posted on 07/30/2012 4:03:51 AM PDT by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: pepsionice

We aren’t talking aboiut one car here. We are talking fleet mileage.

In order to make up for their SUV’s the smaller cars they sell would have to get 75 Mpg. Then they would have to be able to sell these little golf carts.


15 posted on 07/30/2012 4:07:24 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: Westbrook

A two car family used to be a car for mom and one for dad. In the future it will be a three car family. One to drive and two for parts. ;-)


16 posted on 07/30/2012 4:08:29 AM PDT by Average Al (Forbidden fruit leads to many jams.)
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To: Venturer

Oh, they can do it, but all the cars will have to be the size of these new Fiats I see running around town, not real cars.


17 posted on 07/30/2012 4:12:06 AM PDT by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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That new Fiat doesn’t get near 54 MPG.
Nor does the Smart car.


18 posted on 07/30/2012 4:17:33 AM PDT by Venturer
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To: tobyhill
I have been speaking to my auto gnomes on this subject, the responses are along these lines....

* "Oh yes we can do it, but @ what cost"...( After all this is Physics)
* The "thinker" type when asked about so will are chassis be as exotic as Formula One cars for Materials? the answer was that won't even get us their.....
* One interviewee on the Frank Beckmann program (auto guy) let it slip they essentially went along with our lear deader as to not get in his cross hairs and hope to "revisit" this down the road.

Pray for a regime change...

19 posted on 07/30/2012 4:19:31 AM PDT by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: Westbrook

You nailed it.


20 posted on 07/30/2012 4:23:12 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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