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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.
For workers revolution to smash capitalist barbarism! For a world federation of soviet republics!
42 you say?
As a Prius owner, I look forward to the day when I look at the cars on the road around me and say, "man, I wish I was driving one of those - they get serious mileage."
Place a brick underneath the gas pedal.
That's called "collusion", when the government isn't involved.
The new Slashcode includes a feature that randomly changes punctuation marks on clicking Submit.
OK, maybe not, but with all the other weird things happening around here lately, can you really rule it out?
You can never go home again... but I guess you can shop there.
Are you nuts? That would require a 100 gallon gas tank!
Before you say "well drive a car", well if I could find a car for someone my size I would easily drive a car. I cannot find a car that fits someone of my height and girth, thus I HAVE to drive an SUV.
Or you could also, like, exercise a bit from time to time and eat healthier.
I drive a small car... I hear the whole 'squished like a pancake' thing all the time, but despite hearing it and seeing lots of even major car accidents on the Los Angeles freeways, I see a lot of people take hits in small cars and not only survive, but their cars are still working well enough to drive them away from the scene.
maybe that's because the average commute speeds in LA are so low (5-11 mph average in the sepulveda pass). :P
That God-damned representative government! People doing what they want, instead of what's best for them! I tell you, if I was in charge, we wouldn't have any of this inefficient "voting" or "town hall meetings" or any of that crap. I'd just say what was right, and anyone who didn't agree would be beaten. Let's increase taxes and ensure that no poor people can ever drive again! They don't deserve it, the cretins.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
It's God's car, he sprinkled them all over the outback so nobody ever runs out of spare parts.
And did you exchange a walk on part in the war for a lead role in a cage? - Pink Floyd.
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Yup, the Brits dropped that useless system a long time ago. They just film two versions of Top Gear, one for the domestic market using the kilometers and liters and another for BBC America with miles and gallons. Makes sense to me.
And while we are at it, when did stone become an SI unit?
Heroscape, it's like legos combined with anachronistic wargames.
Every economist? You can take your social metaphysics and control by fear and shove it wherever you like, but lets just be clear you are talking about ideal high school Keynesian Economics and not real world, grown up Austrian Economics. I am glad you had the capacity to drool over colorful supply and demand graphs, but if you have any additional brain power, try a real book like "The Theory of Money and Credit" or "Keynes the Man" which is contemporary to "The General Theory". And as much as I might like to simply agree with Mesis and Rothbard, I think if Keynes were alive today he would say we were taking all this WAY to far. Keynes advocated for community level collaborative interventionalism, not the head of the Federal government appointing himself CEO and engineer of the next generation of high speed coffins that fart strawberries. Holy Shit!
Strong language is for effect. So long as everyone with the slightest critique is getting modded to hell, I might as well go down all the way.
Oh yeah, and fuck using taxes as moral regulatory tool. What, you run out of Bibles to choke people to death with?
Want Big Business out of government? Take away the incentive and start by getting government out of big business!
They have cars in the UK?
On a moped, if you pedal and it's downhill. With a following wind.
Typical subcompacts are around 8l/100km.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Yeah, but you know what they say about mopeds.
Mopeds are like fat chicks, sure, they're both fun to 'ride', but, you don't want your friends to see you on either one of them.
Thank you, I'll be here all week.....try the veal.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
You won't really get that, due to air resistance from your tinfoil hat.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire