Posted on 06/29/2007 12:31:27 PM PDT by neverdem
The senator was vexed. The U.S. auto companies were resisting attempts by her and other Senate well-meaners to impose a radical rise in fuel efficiency by 2017. Why can’t they be more like the Chinese, she complained. Or to quote Sen. Dianne Feinstein precisely: “What the China situation, or the other countries’ situation, shows is that these automakers, in all of these countries, build the automobile that the requirements for mileage state. And they don’t fight it, they just do it.’’
Yes. That is how things work in Communist-party dictatorships. It is odd to hold up China as a model of corporate-government relations. It is also poor salesmanship. Just a week after Feinstein made that statement, the Brilliance BS6 sedan — “a car with which (China) wanted to conquer Europe’s automobile market’’ — failed a German crash test so miserably that it might be banned from Europe, reported the European news agency AFX News. “It was the second time in less than two years that a Chinese-made car has failed the test, following the spectacular failure of the Landwind sport-utility vehicle made by Jiangling Motors 18 months ago.’’
You get what you pay for. When you build lighter cars with more fuel efficiency, you know that ultimately — even with the best (let alone Chinese) technology — safety is compromised. That happened three decades ago when U.S. mileage efficiency rose dramatically in response to the oil shocks of the ‘70s. It will likely happen again.
Now we may, as a society, decide that the trade-off is worth it. We may reason that fuel inefficiency leads to dependency on foreign oil which in turn leads us to lives lost in other ways — such as wars to defend our interests in the oil-rich Middle...
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Feinstein should be asked to live on Chinese imported foodstuffs for a year if she likes their model so much. That is if she were to survive the toxic contaminants and make it that long.
What Feinstein isn’t telling people is that if all the cars on the road get 40mpg, gas prices will go up to $6.00 a gallon to keep the profits up. If you have to buy less gas at the current price, the states and feds get less tax money. Do you really think they will let that happen?
Didn’t Feinstein just resign from .....because it gave federal money to her husband’s company. I don’t know much about it because the msm has been doing it’s regularly fine job. FOX included.
Exactly! The bullet proofing and bomb resistance doubles the weight of her vehicle, halfing the milage.
G-d, but I despise limousine liberals like these crooked hypocrite!
Wow. Ford and GM got together to build her a car?
Stupid, stupid,stupid,stupid ......
Socialist, socialist, socialist ...
Bi____
Chinese for 'Play-School'?
Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee
Sen Dianne Feinstein (D-Beijing) injured in Chinese Limo accident; Brilliance BS6 Auto has great mileage, uses cabbage braking pads.
it is amazing the press has turned a blind eye to this war profiteer...
You mean building inferior products and polluting more than any nation on earth by a wide margin?
Feinswine has had a rough couple of days: No amnesty for illegal aliens, no "Fairness" Doctrine. A more despicable elected official would be difficult to find.
Poor Fineswine. If only she could just make everyone do what she wants them to do.
YOU FIRST! You stupid bi+ch.
“Why can’t they be more like the Chinese, she complained.” Hey Dianne Feinstein, move YOUR @$$ to China and leave the US alone.
This country can’t take the constant strain of all of it’s TRAITORS!!
DieFi, the Crash Test Dummy. Nice.
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