Posted on 05/18/2009 10:47:57 AM PDT by GreatDaggar
President Obama will tomorrow announce a "historic" new policy involving new greenhouse gas emission standards and new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for vehicles sold in the U.S., sources tell ABC News.
The announcement will involve a broad coalition including state governments -- Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger from environmentally-conscious California and Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm from auto-friendly Michigan will be there -- as well as both the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency, automakers, environmental groups, and others. The announcement was first reported by Politico's Mike Allen.
The Transportation Department will handle the new CAFE standards, while the EPA will handle the new greenhouse gas emission standards. They will be initiated through administrative rulemaking.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.abcnews.com ...
Well, this is really going to kickstart the end of the US auto industry!
I wonder if Congress is involved or whether this will just a pronouncement by the King. Dictatorships are SO efficient. You can really get things done.
President Obama will tomorrow announce a “historic” new policy involving new greenhouse gas emission standards and new Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for vehicles sold in the U.S., sources tell ABC News.
Oh Lord!....
Will someone please announce new Obama gas bag emission standards?....I can’t take it anymore!
Waiting for him to ban NASCAR and the Indy 500 to save Mother Gaia.
Give the man some more rope, would ya, please.
If we do not revolt now then we are slaves. Since I don’t see the former happening-brb getting fitted for shackles
And, think....there was a time when liberals called these executive orders, "unconstitutional".
“Dictatorships are SO efficient. You can really get things done.”
Will he make the trains run on time?
Michigan and Granholm are so “auto friendly” that 2 of the 3 auto companies HQ’ed in Michigan are going out of business.
Companies are ALREADY finding it FINANCIALLY IMPOSSIBLE to meet the coming 2010 CAFE standards without spending BILLIONS AND BILLIONS of dollars, and this moron is going to introduce MORE???
The American People had better wake up, FAST, to what they have done, or it’s going to be over for ALL of us.
Coffins on wheels, I am sure Michelle will ride around in one ... I guess the Congress is bottle necked over plant food.
Lets see, isn’t it Congress that can raise taxes, not the EPA? And didn’t his own office call the global warming science unsubstantiated?
Pay more in taxes to the government so government scientists can pretend to control the weather.
Another pointless mouthing from the moron that can be rolled back in a few years...
So, just in case a 100:1 Reverse Split does not spell doom to GM, maybe this will.
He must be bribing the Bankrupt states to support his new Green agenda.
He is robbing us blind, IMPEACH HIM!
In ten years, they’ll have us all driving glorified golf carts to go pick up our subsistence payments and food vouchers at the Federal Bank to bring back to our Federally rent-controlled apartment blocks to watch Dear Leader on the one remaining TV channel telling us how wonderful we have it now without all that awful capitalist competition and inequality.
Lol...just an excuse to get more production out of America. Thanks Obuma...I don’t need no stinkin job.
all humans will be required to exhale half as much.
I'll do my part by only exhaling half the time.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
HERE IS THE MONEY QUOTE, FOLKS...
“The Transportation Department will handle the new CAFE standards, while the EPA will handle the new greenhouse gas emission standards.
***They will be initiated through administrative rulemaking.***”
Obama intends to BYPASS CONGRESS and rule through dictatorial decree.
And if you want “relief” from the strangulation of these new standards, you have to BUY A DEMOCRAT. Welcome to FASCISM. And it was EXACTLY like this under the NAZI’s.
SEIG HEIL! HAIL THE MESSIAH! (or else)
I wonder if he’ll announce how much in new taxes his ventures will gift the American people.
“Coffins on wheels, I am sure Michelle will ride around in one”
After the announcement, his AUTO CZAR will review the Construction status of his 15,000 Sq. Ft. Mansion on Martha’s Vineyard in his gas-guzzling Limo, and fly his PRIVATE JET to the Island this weekend!!
You see, RULES are for THEE, but not for ME!
All Animals are created equal, but some pigz are more equalz than other pigz.
CHANGE HAS ARRIVED!!
The list, ping
But we'll drive with pride....
Who will buy the cars of Government Motors?
YOU WILL sucka
/Baraq
What does it matter if a few unimportant people die, for the glory and power of the Messiah Obama, and the Democrat Party??
Your thinking is all wrong. You will to be reeducated for the new reality.
“In ten years, they’ll have us all driving glorified golf carts”
Do you mean this?
http://www.iconocast.com/B000000000000052/O5/News7_0.jpg
That car(?)has a S-—eating grin. Reminds me of Biden. I also like you TAG. It works for me.
There will be more room for people too because all the old people will die off sooner without proper medical care. Life expectancy will drop back to what it was in 1893 and we will have many more rent controlled apartments to choose from!/SAR
The modern world proved just to complex and difficult to control for our totalitarian Progressives, so they’ve decided to revert us all back to the 19th Century.
That was my thought - WHO the heck is allowing all this to go through so fast? Surely there are MANY special interest groups that need to be coddled.
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