Posted on 05/18/2009 1:09:59 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
LOL,,I like that.
“Who will buy the cars of Government Motors?”
Most of America. Choices will be either GM or Chicom because Korea, Japan and Europe will have tariffs so high people will have to finance them for 8 years.
No problem, Mr. O. Just need you to sign this Official Presidential Directive, Mr. O.
Official Presidential Directive #53122 The term "mile" is now defined as exactly 3000 feet. That is all. signed _____________________ Official President.It's good to be king.
I suspect the consequences are very much intended.
I’m trying to understand this news item; If they’re setting a CAFE standard, wouldn’t that mean, more or less, business as usual, in that, they produce some oversized golf cart that gets 50 mph to offset the trucks getting 12 to 25 MPH?
I’m thinking that if that’s the case then.....this is window dressing.
THAT is his intention..
Yep, and more lower-income people who can’t afford the larger cars and gas get killed on the highway—but don’t both Obama with such details!
This is perfectly doable. Does not say the size of the fleet, so, as in statistics, just have to chose the proper value of "N" (or number of samples) to make it work. A value of 100 [car] would do. Who might be the lucky purchaser of these cars? However, we can do MUCH better. With an "n" of 1, could make the fleet average 1000 mpg. Heck, with a value of "n", the fleet average would be ∞ mpg.
For my next car I’m going to buy a used city bus. I’ll then be able to run red lights, drive in the carpool lanes, and break traffic laws, and never get a ticket. Have you ever seen a public city bus pulled over for the crap they pull? And talk about comfort, I’ll fix it up inside, put in a jacuzzi, barbecue grill, kitchen, bedroom, smokers lounge, and run a bowling lane down the middle. In accidents a city bus beats a SUV. A bus is really the ultimate SUV, not just for poor people anymore.
Get ready for 55mph or less national speed limit....again. Make a solution to fix a problem they have created. Pretty simple eh?
These idiots have no clue! Are they now going to provide me a vehicle that can do that, and haul water for me? How about make it to where I live up the hill? No? Well piss off then!
Obama’s idea is to order that technological advances be made- presumably on time and on budget.
It doesn’t work, but it does provide a convenient scapegoat when the engineers charged with completing the technological advances fail.
If I were advising a young person who was choosing a career under this scenario- I’d tell him to avoid getting involved in the hard sciences and instead choose the law or perhaps community organizing instead.
CAFE laws are laws that lawmakers pass to show the voters that they’re “doing something”. Such a directive will be unenforcable and will have only minimal compliance from automakers.
Automakers will provide “show” vehicles that nobody buys that get 55 mpg. Everyone else will buy the 22 mpg models.
One unintended consequence will be that people will keep their old cars and create more pollution. Older cars emit real pollution (carbon MONOxide, sulfur, NOx) in greater amounts than new cars.
“No, this is all about destroying the middle class “
His end game is to get as many as possible from rural and suburban locations to live in the city, so mass transit can be used and ‘improve’ the energy efficiency by stopping the use of personal transportation.
Cities are where people can be controled much easier, in ways other than transportation, too.
So, we are all going to become like California?!
That’s what I was thinking, but.....the article is so poorly written it leaves a bunch of stuff out so I can’t really determine with assurance if this is a tweak of the old CAFE standard or whether it’s something entirely new.
Wrecking (Russian: вредительство or vreditel'stvo, lit. "inflicting damage"), was a crime specified in the criminal code of the Soviet Union in the Stalin era. It is often translated as "sabotage"; however "wrecking" and "diversionist acts" and "counter-revolutionary sabotage" were distinct sub-articles of Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code) (58-7, 58-9, and 58-14 respectively), and the meaning of "wrecking" is closer to "undermining".
ROFL!
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