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Hey Ed, every automobile manufactures makes small fuel efficient cars all the way up to large trucks and SUV's. Most people are not going out and buying the tiny cars you wish they wound buy. They are buying mostly larger sedans and SUV's. And yes, we are smart enough to understand fuel costs.
1 posted on 03/15/2017 12:57:16 PM PDT by matt04
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To: matt04

You lost, we won. Deal with it.


2 posted on 03/15/2017 1:02:20 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: matt04

lol, well said...so the right way is cars soo expensive you have to your first born to get..that really helped somebody/sarc


3 posted on 03/15/2017 1:02:23 PM PDT by aces (Got Jesus?)
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To: matt04

Besides joining Shumer in piling on Trump, perhaps this commentary from last Friday goosed him into pretending to be relevant?

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/howie_carr/2017/03/carr_ed_markey_s_re_election_hopes_frosty_at_best


4 posted on 03/15/2017 1:02:26 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: matt04
for our security, economy and environment

Notice what a mindless talking point this is. I get how the Dems try to make the "environment" part of the argument, but adding security and economy is just plain fantasy. But Brain Dead Ed dutifully repeats it just as its written on the DNC talking point memo he got.

6 posted on 03/15/2017 1:03:59 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: matt04

Man... If Trump does this, it will be one of the BEST THINGS a President has done in a long, long time...

This is a personal pet peeve of mine. MANDATING fuel efficiency is the WRONG WAY To go. It’s anti-liberty. Anti-Free Market.

Just so mis-guided. Let US make our own judgments about cost vs efficiency vs safety.


7 posted on 03/15/2017 1:04:41 PM PDT by SomeCallMeTim ( The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them!)
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To: matt04

Taxachussetts should ban all cars, trucks, beer
(lottsa CO2 there...) and yeast leavened bread.


8 posted on 03/15/2017 1:06:28 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: matt04

Markey is one the most stupid members of Congress...and that’s going some. He doesn’t have one synapse that is firing properly.


9 posted on 03/15/2017 1:07:18 PM PDT by nickedknack (Sump'n ain't rat cheer)
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To: matt04
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee..........................what is a public works committee?
11 posted on 03/15/2017 1:08:57 PM PDT by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: matt04

.... moving away from the Obama administration’s
54.5 miles per gallon standard for future vehicles...!

= = = = = = = =

OF COURSE!


13 posted on 03/15/2017 1:13:48 PM PDT by onyx (DONATE MONTHLY! JOIN Club 300!)
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Listen buffoon...those small fuel efficient cars you’re so fond of are unsafe and...oh yeh...MADE IN MEXICO!!!
#DTS
#MAGA


17 posted on 03/15/2017 1:22:11 PM PDT by connyankee (#MAGABEGINS)
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To: matt04

There are people who want fuel economy in a car. The manufacturers will provide economy to the extent possible. Key words there : to the extent POSSIBLE.


18 posted on 03/15/2017 1:25:21 PM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job....)
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To: matt04

SHOCKER!

Democrat Senator opposes rollback of Nanny State micromanagement.

Who could’a guessed this one?


19 posted on 03/15/2017 1:25:58 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory." --Miguel de Cervantes)
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To: matt04

He knows about cars. He was the Ice Cream Man in the dreaded private sector.


20 posted on 03/15/2017 1:26:56 PM PDT by AU72
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You Can Keep Your Nanny State If You Like Your Nanny State!

The rest of us are happy to be free of your grubby paws at last!

Free At Last !

Free At last !

Thanks To The Donald We Are Free At Last !


21 posted on 03/15/2017 1:29:33 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler ("Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory." --Miguel de Cervantes)
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To: matt04

I drive a 2015 Honda Fit EX hatchback that gets 41 mpg on the freeway—on a car that weighs just under 2,600 pounds and has all the modern safety features like multiple airbags, rollover and side impact protection, and no complex hybrid drive system. Proof that technology is outracing the mandates for better fuel economy.


22 posted on 03/15/2017 1:31:53 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: matt04

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI_Jl5WFQkA

Make me a Canyonero and take my money.


23 posted on 03/15/2017 1:35:17 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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To: matt04

I wish they would roll back some of the others like the one that killed the small pickups like Ranger.


25 posted on 03/15/2017 1:36:42 PM PDT by alternatives? (Why have an army if there are no borders?)
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To: matt04

Ed Markey - http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/howie_carr/2017/03/carr_ed_markey_s_re_election_hopes_frosty_at_best


26 posted on 03/15/2017 1:40:33 PM PDT by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: matt04

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If fuel economy standards exist, they should be in Ton-Miles per gallon.

That would be a true measure of efficiency.

The present system ignores actual vehicle efficiency.


27 posted on 03/15/2017 1:42:10 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: matt04

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Plug-in electric vehicles should also be prohibited in all but the right-most lane of major highways.
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28 posted on 03/15/2017 1:45:17 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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