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Obama Sets New Auto Emissions and Mileage Rules
New York Times ^
| May 20, 2009
| John M. Broder
Posted on 05/19/2009 11:30:25 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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I'm disappointed by the automakers' endorsement of the industry's suicide, but the TARP money did not come for free. They won't pay be able to it back, but they will toe the line. A big gas tax to push prices to $4/gallon and force people to buy the small cars Obama wants for them may be coming in a few years -- unless we evict these bums.
To: steelyourfaith; xcamel
To: reaganaut1
WTH is he to arbitrarily set rates or fire CEOs anyway? What happened to by the people and for the people?
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:32:47 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(It takes a Kenyan village to raise a US president.)
To: reaganaut1
Next thing you know the feds will have to restrict family size, because you can only fit so many people in subcompact cars.
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:33:27 AM PDT
by
keats5
(Not all of us are hypnotized.)
To: reaganaut1
Environmental advocates and industry officials welcomed the new program, an accord that Mr. Obama said would have been considered impossible in the past.
It would have been impossible before the Government owned the auto industry.
To: reaganaut1
Will Hussein’s little putt-putts haul a cord of firewood up my hill to my thousand-foot elevation property?
I think not.
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:35:38 AM PDT
by
EggsAckley
("There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply." W.C Fields)
To: BipolarBob
We'll just spell it "Peaple's Car" instead of "Volkswagon"
The luxury model will be the "USA" .. cue old Doris Day Chevy jingle .....
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:35:39 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: reaganaut1
EXCELLENT.
Froggie like wasser, wasser all nice and warm.....
And when gastax revenues drop due to alternates and higher efficiencies, bang, mileage fees, MA is going to put a sales tax on gas, or rather, remove the exemption, lol.
SWEET!
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:35:43 AM PDT
by
swarthyguy
("We may be crazy in Pakistan, but not completely out of our minds," ISI Gen. Ahmed Shujaa Pasha)
To: BipolarBob
Will this help Chrysler and GM return to profitability? Even if you think this is a good idea, couldn’t they delay for some years to let them get back on their feet? Here they are going to have to re-tool and absorb lots of new costs and pass along price increases at a point where they are financially weak.
To: reaganaut1
too many posts on this one today...
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:36:39 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
To: reaganaut1
This is red meat for the Obowma's leftist base.
They were deserting him last week with his torture shenanigans.
That's why this socialist announcement now, IMHO.
To: reaganaut1; All
Say if we can make CAFE standards of 35.5mpg by executive fiat, why not 135.5mpg? Why even stop there. We can just issue an executative order that Cancer and AIDS will be cured by 2016. Why Not?
This is madness, plain and simple. There are already plenty of vehicles out there that get over 35mpg (highway). All people have to do is buy them.
Just when you think this man cannot get any more foolish, he outdoes himself. If anyone here voted for this fool, shame on you.
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:37:30 AM PDT
by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough!)
To: knarf
It wasn’t Doris Day. It was Dinah Shore.
Just trivia that an aging useless eater such as myself remembers........
~</;o)
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:37:34 AM PDT
by
EggsAckley
("There's an Ethiopian in the fuel supply." W.C Fields)
To: reaganaut1
The rules, which will begin to take effect in 2012, will put in place a federal standard for fuel efficiency that is as tough as the California program,...We all know how well California is doing via government dictate don't we.
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:37:46 AM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, Question everyone else)
To: reaganaut1
Didn't all the previous CAFE standards have to go through Congress? How does Obama just clap his hands together and say "So let it be written, so let it be done"?
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:37:59 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(No free man bows to a foreign king.)
To: reaganaut1
Socialist translation: We are imposing more regulations on the serfs in order to eliminate more of their freedoms with the goal of replacing the Democratic Republic with socialism.
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:38:14 AM PDT
by
Man50D
(Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it!)
To: Dilbert San Diego
This has nothing to do with bringing Chrysler or GM back to profitability. This has to do with crippling that thorn in the side FORD who refuses to roll over and die like the rest.
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:38:35 AM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(It takes a Kenyan village to raise a US president.)
To: BipolarBob
What happened to by the people and for the people?It was lost in translation via "public education".
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:41:40 AM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, Question everyone else)
To: reaganaut1
We need to vote the bums out. 4 years of hell will be bad enough.
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:42:49 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.)
To: EggsAckley
As soon as I hit 'enter' I realized that ...
See the USA
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posted on
05/19/2009 11:43:41 AM PDT
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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