Getting in the way of the politicians' limousines.
Posted on 04/03/2010 12:45:29 PM PDT by Steelfish
April 3, 2010 Barack Obama Aims To Drive Gas Guzzlers Off The Road With Greener Laws
Giles Whittell, Washington
For decades they have thundered along America’s highways and choked up parking lots, a symbol of extravagance unchallenged by politicians, emissions standards or common sense.
They are the four-wheel-drive behemoths known to the US Government as “light trucks” and to consumers as SUVs (sport utility vehicles) — but their easy ride as the world’s most conspicuous mobile polluters ended this week.
In a coup that achieves something President Clinton promised but never delivered, President Obama has forced the big three US carmakers, and their unions, to accept tough mileage rules for cars and SUVs. The rules will cut emissions from vehicles by more than a third over the next four years.
Whether the new rules end America’s love affair with huge cars remains to be seen. But they are being introduced at a time when SUV sales are at a fraction of their peak level five years ago. Their demise coincides with the country’s first mass-produced “plug-in” electric car, which finally rolled off a Michigan production line this week.
From 2016, new cars and SUVs will have to deliver an average of 35.5 miles per gallon (42.6 miles per British gallon), comparable for the first time with European and Japanese requirements.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Wonder what he’ll do with his own Chrysler 300.
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Getting in the way of the politicians' limousines.
Stick it to them soccer moms Obie!!!
Tell those Union workers you are replacing their pickups with a SMART CAR!!!
LOL!!! This is going to be good...
So Gov Motors makes the green cars the Gov approves. All competitors do not. Laws are made to destroy competition.
Sounds like fascism to me.
Obama is going to be having us all driving the smallest production car in the world as seen on Top Gear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJfSS0ZXYdo
I am NOT giving up my old workhorse, my Chevy AstroVan. Yeah, it gets a pathetic 13 MPG, but I have a farm and need the hauling capacity, etc.
Here we go...another step back to the liberal carter years! obama’s going to make sure we get to drive around again in roller skate size death mobiles that take your lives when we tangle with the larger older model cars.
The next new fad in the automotive world:
3/4ton pickups. I expect the crewcab variety with a short bed to be the hottest selling configuration.
It's just going to cost a lot of money and not accomplish a damn thing just like when Carter did it.
Only this time we have a double digit trillions debt as a base line that may just put us over the edge in our free nation.
Yes, the Ghosts of Something Else are wafting around Washington, D.C. these days. Not since 1938 have things looked so headed into darkness.
Fascism, NAZIism, Communism, Socialism... yes the ISMs are on parade. How many tens of millions will die this time? Only time will tell.
hey! I love that car!!
They’ll be confiscating your car pretty soon....because you own taxes for health care
Sorry, the new laws do not apply to the dictating class.
Why doesn’t Obama practice what he’s preachin’!?
“OBAMA’S LIMO: NICKNAMED “THE BEAST””
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JosFDt1Tt4w
“...It’s a rolling tank with windows...”
Now you lnow why they will not drill for oil in America. It’s all part of the plot to get you into that golf cart with windows that Obama wants you in.
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