Posted on 05/07/2007 8:15:30 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
You just saved me a post. Thank you :)
Talking about mileage at all is losing sight of the original issue. Mileage doesn’t matter, gallons matter. The global oil market neither knows or cares how far you drive with that gallon of gas once you’ve bought it.
Politicians are a bunch of scheming liars, but by and large they aren’t idiots. They understand this perfectly well.
They also understand that telling people who decided to live 50 miles away from their job in the city and sit in a bumper to bumper commute for four hours a day that they are going to have to pay the consequences of their lifestyle choices is a big vote loser.
Telling them instead that the fault in their dumb decision is not their own but lies in the misdeeds of “big oil” and “big auto”, (or from our side of the aisle, “environmentalists” and “the EPA”) and that continuing their lifestyle is one law change away is a vote getter.
This is called moving your mouth without saying anything. Anybody who thinks clinocchio is the only slick eel on the field hasn’t been looking carefully at this guy. Moving his mouth without saying anything is most of what he does. He is naive enough to believe he can get by with this act, but he is about to learn he is playing on slick willie’s field.
The domestic industry is destroying itself just fine. No point in asking for the government’s help in doing it.
Obama this week flew to Detroit to deliver his message that the U.S. auto industry is the villain for "investing in bigger and faster cars while foreign competitors invested in more fuel-efficient technology."
The domestics certainly haven't flooded showrooms with gas/electric hybrids like the Japanese. But in fairness, the newest Japanese assembly plant in the U.S. produces 14-m.p.g. Toyota Tundra pickups, not Prius hybrids rated at 60 m.p.g.
"While our fuel standards haven't moved from 27.5 miles per gallon in two decades, both China and Japan have surpassed us, with Japanese cars now getting an average of 45 miles to the gallon," Obama said.
"I'm not sure where he got that figure," Toyota spokesman Mike Michels said. "No carmaker gets 45 m.p.g. Ours is closer to 30 m.p.g."
If elected president, perhaps Obama's first appointment should be a fact-checker.
So Obama does not have any magical solutions?
Obama Condemns Big and Fast Gas Guzzlers, But Drives Hemi V8 Sedan
NewsBusters.org | Lynn Davidson
Posted on 05/12/2007 7:28:55 PM EDT by SandRat
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