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US To Require That New Cars Get 42 MPG By 2016
Hugh Pickens writes "New cars and trucks will have to get 30 percent better mileage starting in 2016 under an Obama administration move to curb emissions tied to smog and global warming. While the 30 percent increase would be an average for both cars and light trucks, the percentage increase in cars would be much greater, rising from the current 27.5 mpg standard to 42 mpg. Environmentalists praised the move. Carl Pope, executive director of the Sierra Club, called it 'one of the most significant efforts undertaken by any president, ever, to end our addiction to oil and seriously slash our global warming emissions.' Obama's plan also would effectively end litigation between states and automakers that had opposed state-specific rules, arguing that having to meet several state standards would be much more expensive for them than just one federal rule. The Detroit News reported that automakers were on board with the new rule and had worked with the administration on creating a timeline for the transition." There's a case to be made that raising the CAFE won't save oil or reduce greenhouse gases.
The new definition of "emissions" includes carbon dioxide. Indoctrination complete.
Excuse me, but I am not putting my family in that.... my 12 year old BMW is 300x safer than that paperbox .... and uses 7-8l / 100 kms ... go calculate how much that in in MPG ...
On the other hand : that efficiency is not going to happen ... so I just keep restoring my 2-stroke dirtbike till they ban them eveywhere ... ohh ... I am really a tree hugger and a vegan ....
Why don't we mandate that processor speeds operate at 2 terahertz... I know that Intel is just holding out on us to string us along. They must be heavily invested in big power and big HVAC, those corrupt bastards at Intel. While we're at it, we should also mandate that Ethernet speeds be cranked up to terabit speeds as well, and all by 2012, because we all know there would be NO innovation if left to the companies themselves. If government weren't there to mandate these innovations, why, could you imagine where we would be today?
The levels of insanity...
Good security is based upon reality and common sense. Common sense is a function of having common knowledge.
It just makes sense to stop WASTING everything we can, just because we can.)
What you really mean is, you want to use a gun to force everybody else to stop wasting, by your definition of waste.
You've always been perfectly free to not waste.
I love how I get modded troll because I want to pick what I drive and not have the government do it for me. Not everyone lives in a big city where you can't open your car up and have some fun with it.
The only way to get this magical number of 46 mpg is to build cars that are only meant to go from point A to B and nothing else. That is fine if those cars are available but to regulate it to where those are the ONLY cars you can buy is ridiculous. Let people have some choices, let us pick what we can buy. If I want a car that has 300hp and gets 20 mpg I should be able to buy it and not some sort of car powered by hope and happy thoughts.
If you want to tax it as a sin tax, fine, tax gasoline and let me be on my way but don't take one of my joys away from me because you think it's going to save the environment.
So go on saying this is great. Have your happy thoughts about all the environment we are saving but also remember what you are giving up. Maybe you don't care on this issue but sooner or later the government is going to take something from you.
Go Godwin something else you Glenn Beck and Limbaugh-listening dimwit.
You listen to certifiable paranoid schizophrenics you start to become one.
$DIETY right wingers are so immature
If you cannot keep politics out of your moderation remove yourself from the Mod Lottery.. NOW!