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Posted on 02/22/2014 4:11:46 AM PST by Kaslin
Now that he's solved the problem of the economy being so bad-- by deciding to ignore it-- Obama's turned his attention to the latest improvements he can make to the automotive industry. And government.
He’s going to get tough on trucks.
Again.
“President Obama will announce on Tuesday that his administration will begin developing the next phase of tighter fuel efficiency standards for medium and heavy-duty vehicles, according to the White House,” reports USAToday.
And once again, he’ll use an executive order, bypassing Congress for your own good.
“The president will order the Environmental Protection Agency and Transportation Department's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,” continues the four-color national rag, “to develop and issue new fuel-efficiency and greenhouse gas standards by March 31, 2016, according to a White House report on the executive action Obama will announce.”
In cooperation with the Obama White House the term “executive order” appears nowhere in the story.
Instead, the administration has continued their Orwellian assault on the English language by changing the words "executive order" to “executive action.”
While it’s true that the term “executive action” has been around for a while, this is the first time that the emphasis has been so widely put on turning it from a verb into a noun.
I think Congress ought to order Obama to wear a special “executive action figure” suit whenever making these announcements, so they can emphasize the verby nature of the administration’s assault on Congress.
After all, many employers have mandatory dress requirements: the military, the NBA, Carl’s Jr.
Why not the president?
He could even sell space on the suit to his bundlers in return for his presidential support for one lucky bundler to become King of Siam or His Highness the Akhund of Swat.
The presidential announcement on fuel efficiency comes from the parking lot of a Safeway distribution center—pick me, pick me!—which was selected because Safeway has been VERY cooperative with other Obama EPA initiatives, according to USAToday.
Previously Obama jacked up light duty truck standards, in cooperation with Ford, GM, and the other lackeys of the corporate state.
In January, light duty truck sales inched up 2.4 percent, while car sales were down 8.3 percent compared to 2013.
The light duty fuel efficiency standards won’t go into effect until AFTER Obama is in office in 2017. So get them while they are hot.
After me, the deluge.
Light duty trucks are an integral part of the economy because they are used in the construction and utility trades.
Heavy-duty trucks are an integral part of the economy because they haul freight for us.
Obama would have you believe that without government intervention, businesses don’t care about fuel efficiency.
They actually care more than the government does because it really is their money they use to pay for gas.
Fuel efficiency standards cost more than any benefit they create for businesses-- as much as $2 billion per year-- they cost lives because they under-power cars and trucks, and finally, they address a problem that doesn’t exist.
The United States is a fairly efficient user of carbon per dollar of GDP compared to other countries. The European Union does better, but they have a more urbanized, central populations, oh, and have you seen the price of gas in Europe?
The Presidential Poseable Executive Action Figure has, and he likes what he sees.
So when the fuel efficiency thing doesn't work, expect more Presidential Poseable Executive Action on gas prices too.
Stealing a guy’s truck IS tantamount to stealing his gun.
And Republicans can defund the EPA, but won’t. Boehner will cry.
It’s good to be KingHussein. He can do whatever he wants. He said so. Witness TOTALITARIANCARE.
Keep on truckin’ King. CONgre$$ and the robed klansmen are ridin’ in the back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pafY6sZt0FE
We’re all grateful we’re not dead.
how about those 747’s he uses so often?
These decisions are going to ruin our economy. Who is going to make him EAT his words?
It works out to about $12 a gallon here in Italy which explains the preponderance of Fiat 500s and Pandas on the road.
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I’m told private people in Europe don’t have trucks. They’re dirt common in the US. A truck lets you maintain your own property, build your own buildings and projects and make money on the side helping those without trucks. They’re as essential to American freedoms as guns. The less regulation the better. Obama threatened to fundamentally change the US. We need to fundamentally change our government to get rid of millions of petty dictators controlling everything from what we eat to what we pay for.
He can have mine if he wants. The damned thing is a honkin’ big gas guzzler fer sure. Damned troublesome to park everwhere, too!
‘Obama would have you believe that without government intervention, businesses don’t care about fuel efficiency.
They actually care more than the government does because it really is their money they use to pay for gas’.
To the low information voter, government force is a good thing.
Time to clog DC with your trucks!
Gas without gov taxes is about a dollar and change
Back in Germany in the early 70s, our teams were heading to a couple of remote mountaintops to work on a comm link between them.
On the way through the countryside, I came up on a German man whose car had run off the road into the mud. We pulled out a tow strap and hooked it up.
That big six pax Dodge with the 6 cylinders and 4 wheel drive mud grips growled loudly as it steadily tugged his car back on the road.
The look on his face was something to see. All he wanted to know was where he could get one of those Six Pax....
He’s he going to order non-conforming ones to be destroyed...like his last INSANE destruction mandate??
More like stealing his horse...and that calls for a hang’n.
We need to be thanking truckers for hauling our food to the grocery stores. We do NOT need to be giving them a hard time.
I know one young trucker. When I see him, I say, “We appreciate what you do.”
He always says, “Thank you.”
Also, all truckers are armed for protection. They are a rolling army. Ostupida$$ needs to leave truckers alone.
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