Posted on 08/08/2012 5:37:53 AM PDT by Kaslin
Doesn’t matter. There won’t be anywhere worth going to by then.
I wonder which models will become the equivalent to Cuba’s ‘56 Chevy? Because that’s where we are headed.
And since the undocumented and minorities will be “hardest hit” the feds will undoubtedly look the other way while the law-abiding citizen once again carries the brunt.
They didn’t even mention that one of the reasons for the high price of good used cars is that so many were destroyed in the President’s “Cash for Clunkers” program. Less cars = higher prices.
I would rather drive an older Peterbilt than a new GM econfoilmobile.
Add human powered pedal cars to the product line and use them to skew the MPG average.
The author incorrectly assumes the consequences are unitended.
If the Volt II gets 300 MPG, and the other 9 models only get 30 MPG ... the average will be 57 MPG ... and the car company meets the regulations.
What an utterly stupid law.
Noting unintended about it.
The solution to the problem is obvious to any conservative - take CAFE out behind the barn, and kill it with an ax.
The government should not be dictating corporate average fuel economy. The marketplace should by the cars the individual buyers choose to purchase. Fire the bureaucracy that creates, tabulates, and enforces this nonsense and force them to get out and make an honest living.
VW offers a car, right now, that gets over 70 mpg. It’s only available in Europe. Their blue motion Jetta cannot be sold in the US because its particulate emission per gallon burned is higher than allowed. Despite, of course, that it emits fewer particles per mile than compliant cars due to its high mileage. The EPA cannot figure that out. Rules is rules. If you visit the VW UK site, the specifications for their vehicles are listed.
And many of those destroyed cars were still in good condition
You must have stopped reading at the 5th paragraph because it’s mentioned in the 6th.
As I saw on a magazine cover in Whole Foods, the new family vehicle is the Cargo Bike.
Wonder what big brother’s plans are when people start raising cain over this. Even the most stupid useful idiot has his limits.
The milage of old VW’s and Honda’s were great. Then they install all those complex systems to prevent emissions. They have been trying to recover from that for years.
My motorcycle doesn’t get 54 mile per gallon.
Our Government is out of control and is destroying this Country........
But then this is only a money making scheme anyhow. No car company can have an entire line getting 54mpg by 2025 or likely ever. So as the deadline approaches and the car companies are not there yet the Government will grant waivers for “monetary penalties”
If you stick one hand in a bucket of ice water and the other hand in a bucket of boiling water, on the average you should be perfectly comfortable.
What a great article.
I have to laugh when I see folks driving around in those little roller-skate Fiat 500s or Fart Cars. They’re hardly any bigger than the bugs on my car’s grill. Splat...
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