Unintended consequences? The cost of aluminum is going to soar due to increased demand in the auto industry. So the price of everything else made of aluminum will soar, too. Expect increases in the cost of air travel (aluminum in planes), canned beverages and aluminum foil.
Realistically, now. Who could possibly have anticipated increases in the cost of corn when half the supply goes into our gas tanks?
I agree with this article completely. I would add, however, that a larger portion of the problem is higher up the food chain at regulation of energy and association with environmental protection. It inhibits free market choice of fuel options for transportation, locking us into government’s choice of fuel, leading to politically motivated and incoherent regulatory actions such as these in addition to economic issues rising from neglect of serious supply issues regarding the choice fuel. It’s a central planning nightmare that puts us all in the poorhouse, if we survive long enough to get there.
Which will cost more, the medical care and funerals plus the increased price of vehicles or lower miles per gallon.
Not only is the cost of new vehicles going to have these anticipated increases, but the family budget will take hits related to the costs of Obamacare and the “necessarily skyrocketing” cost of electricity. When you add all of the costs of Obama’s utopian government, then the normal family will be under water....
...hmmm, might be why we have a democrap push for rail....Plus we need to force everyone to move back to the wonderful urban societies created by libtards.
Punish the people with high costs and then they may all herd together like cows. At that point, they aren’t to difficult to lead to slaughter.
Oh well, people call me a right wing kook and go back to their discussions about American Idol.
Watch out for those baby ducks.
Here the Obama Administration KNOWS that this mandate is for 2025, 13 years from now and long after he has departed from office. How many of the policies made in the Clinton years do we blame him for? (Well I do but then I have a working memory!)
The statists want to push most of us into little 2-seat cars, while they go around in huge SUVs and Limos.
That 54.5 mpg objective by 2025 is not attainable with existing electro-mechanical technologies and we can’t expect to see cold fusion reactors running Chevy Volts in the near future.
So the government will work with the industry to employ Smoke and Mirrors.
Rather than adjust the mandatory CAFE mileage to something actually attainable, they will manipulate the data (as the govt. now does with the unemployment data), and employ caefully crafted loopholes to make it appear they have accomplished the impossible.
Interesting - Ford produces a car in the USA - right now - that gets about 70 MPG. It is made for export only.
Why? - The EPA says it emits too much CO2 per gallon of gas burned, by about 10%.
Even if CO2 emissions were a problem (which they are not) this rule is completely stupid.
Because...The CO2 this car emits per mile travelled is well below other cars, because of its great fuel economy.
True - and you can personally verify the car’s existence s on the Ford europe web site.
That is the stupidity of the Obama administration.
It ain’t about cars...
For the “true-believers” in the EPA, NHTSA, and the environmental movement all that matters is that we stop using oil and coal. Period. Everything else comes second including, whether they admit it to themselves or not, other people’s lives.
Obama will just issue an Executive Order repealing the laws of physics.
In this suburb just west of Detroit, Ford Motor Co. is working on one of the biggest gambles in its 108-year history: a pickup truck with a largely aluminum body. The radical redesign will help meet tougher federal fuel-economy targets now starting to have wide-ranging effects on Detroit's auto makers.The venerable F-150 becomes an unintended consequence to Obama's new standards.
They missed one other thing...the mileage tax. Better fuel economy means fewer tax dollars at the pump, which then leads to either bad roads or tracking devices for mileage tax purposes.