Posted on 08/28/2012 10:54:05 AM PDT by jazusamo
” The EPA needs to be abolished or at least gutted to the bone and neutered as far as making regulations. “
I was a kid when this was formed, and even then, I knew it would grow into a monster.
LOL!!
They calculate that number in an odd way. Here is how it translates to real world numbers.
A President Romney could put a stop to this, correct?
Democrats think that they could mandate that a car be as safe and as advanced as the Space Shuttle and that it won’t effect the prices..... just another example of how economically ignorant they are.
LOL! Good one, Frank.
54.5 miles per gallon.
That is pretty amazing. I get 35 GPH now and I only have to fill up every other week or so. I have a Toyota.
The EPA needs to go away.
The conspiracist in me says that this is just another turn on the ratchet aimed toward getting the populace more and more angry and getting the Civil War they’ve been arming up for.
The realist in me says that somebody has made a political calculation and thinks that the populace will just roll over one more time like they always do.
Actually they know full well that it will cause the price to increase and the performance to decrease drastically. They WANT to price to rise so as to make it harder for individuals to buy automobiles - part of the move to eventually force everyone to use mass transit. Another nail in the coffin of the little bit of remaining freedom in the USA.
Until a mileage tax obliterates those savings.
“Laws of physics - BEND to my Imperial will!”
That's the much more likely scenario. Oh, folks will talk about it a lot on internet sites such as FR... but civil war? Not gonna happen.
I agree, and I think an argument could be made that would resonate with a freedom loving people. There was only one candidate I know of who made that argument, and it’s not Romney. I guess I still have hope, but just a little.
On to Hollywood. There should also be a mandate here of 50% use of "green" energy in film productions, including all transportation and travel. Only all organic, locally-produced food can be provided on the sets, unless food is standard vending machine fare, such as chips, candy and soda. Strict compliance with hours worked per person per day, or heavy, confiscatory fines.
On to tax-exempt charitable foundations. They should be mandated to distribute 20% of their wealth every year. This would include colleges and universities. Expenditures for fundraising cannot exceed 20% of the funds raised. Of course, there would be the obligatory requirement of a 50% use of "green" energy in their operations, including transportation and travel.
Sounds about right : )
How devious.
Does anyone honestly think that the government is going to stand by and take a loss in the tax revenue they get from fuel and petroleum based products?
Now, me, I'm not that gullible. They'll raise taxes somewhere else and in a higher amount and consumers will find that 'their' estimated $1.7 trillion 'savings' isn't a 'savings' at all.
"Well Americans would have saved that much money if we hadn't had to raise taxes to make up for unexpected shortfalls." /future politician
And eventually that 12 billion barrels of oil will get tapped so it's not "saved" at all in the end.
Moooooooo
This is like legislating that Pi = 3
It it long past time for CAFE to die.
Hydrogen powered cars would be good, but I’m sane enough to realize that it will take at least two decades to accomplish it.
They are issuing rules without using the legislative branch of the government? Just think, when the laws of physics are repealed, farmers will be driving their crops to market in carbon fiber trucks with bicycle tires.
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