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White House Wants Cars to Average 56.2 MPG by 2025
MyFoxTwinCities ^ | 6/27/11 | DINA CAPPIELLO / Associated Press

Posted on 06/27/2011 12:25:52 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

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House Wants Cars to Average 56.2 MPG by 2025

Gosh why not 100 MPG? or 1000? There is only two ways to get to 56.2 MPG: smaller lighter cars, that are more aerodynamic. I was an Automotive Engineer for 20years and all the low hanging fruit as been picked in terms of increasing MPG. Maybe they will change the rules again and not count certain types of trucks (light trucks) and SUV's or Cross-overs.

21 posted on 06/27/2011 12:41:29 PM PDT by Mikey_1962 (Obama: The Affirmative Action President. How else could he beat Hillary?)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

56.2 mpg, not 56.1 or 49.8??

Besides the fact that liberals have no knowledge of “significant digits”, they really should stay far away from any kind of science.

Just stick to things they can comprehend like “Dick and Jane” books, the “View” on tv, or simple tools like a wedge.


22 posted on 06/27/2011 12:41:46 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: apillar
Which is a good reason the government shouldn’t be in the automotive business...

And a good reason for the present government to be fired in 2012. I want to see Pelosis flabby old @ss get into a car that can get 56 miles per gal. I bet that would wipe that botox grin off her face. No, she prefers limousines and jets. Fire her butt!

23 posted on 06/27/2011 12:44:25 PM PDT by Bitsy (!)
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To: Army Air Corps

Send me an invitation, I would love to kiss a hot Italian bride and toast your marriage!


24 posted on 06/27/2011 12:44:45 PM PDT by GOYAKLA (Flush Congress in 2010 & 2012)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
The federal government is now so powerful as to be able to literally mandate by decree virtually everything in our lives. It's not just automobile fuel efficiency standards, it's everything. Your deodorant, sofa cushions, the monitor you're staring at. Everything.
25 posted on 06/27/2011 12:45:02 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Mikey_1962

There is only two ways to get to 56.2 MPG:


You forget the old govt standby of redefining...............


26 posted on 06/27/2011 12:45:22 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple ( getting closer to the truth.................)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Get a horse. They already have that kind of fuel-efficiency.


27 posted on 06/27/2011 12:45:46 PM PDT by OldNewYork
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Obama wants to force us all to drive one of these.....


28 posted on 06/27/2011 12:47:18 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (Financial Repression.......it answers a lot of questions.....read about it on FinancialSense.com.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
Thank you benevolent leader for your boundless wisdom and insight.


29 posted on 06/27/2011 12:47:51 PM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

My first motor vehicle was a soingle cylinder Honda Super 90 “motorcycle” that I used to commute to law school in 1966 annd 1967, which had a top speed of about 45 mph. Even that little machine didn’t get 50 mpg.


30 posted on 06/27/2011 12:48:13 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
New for 2025! Proudly announcing and introducing Government Motors new line: "The signature Obama Series"! (Shown with optional pooper scooper).
31 posted on 06/27/2011 12:48:13 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: Da Coyote

“56.2 mpg, not 56.1 or 49.8?”

Maybe it works out to something when it’s in the kilometers and liters communists love so much.


32 posted on 06/27/2011 12:48:21 PM PDT by OldNewYork
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“White House Wants Cars to Average 56.2 MPG by 2025”

I want one that flys, wipes my bum and doesn’t require me to respect it “after” but that not going to happen either!


33 posted on 06/27/2011 12:48:53 PM PDT by Grunthor (Polls are never right and you aren't conservative unless you kneel at the sound of "Sarah.")
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Why? Is that how long 0 plans to be president?


34 posted on 06/27/2011 12:49:16 PM PDT by madison10
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To: OB1kNOb
Yet even that absurd SmartCar doesn't even come remotely close to getting those huge mileage numbers 0bama is floating.


35 posted on 06/27/2011 12:55:34 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
This is why the CEO of GM was 100% correct, when he said that a gas tax increase would be better than CAFE standards. CAFE standards will distort the world's car markets (and, incidentally, result in thousands of otherwise preventable deaths).
36 posted on 06/27/2011 12:56:12 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I think we should legislate the exhaust to only contain rainbows and Skittles, in federally mandated percentages of course.


37 posted on 06/27/2011 12:57:02 PM PDT by chrisser (Starve the Monkeys!)
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stupid people settling at 56 mph, they should have demanded 200 mpg

Not 200.2?

-PJ

38 posted on 06/27/2011 12:59:19 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Everyone's Irish on St. Patrick's Day, Mexican on Cinco de Mayo, and American on Election Day.)
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To: apillar
We can all drive an Urkel 13hp BMW Isetta - it gets 50mpg


39 posted on 06/27/2011 1:02:09 PM PDT by Tellurian (Obama's allegience is to his father's dreams)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

and souls in hell want ice water...


40 posted on 06/27/2011 1:02:29 PM PDT by OriginalChristian (The end of America, as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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