Posted on 08/29/2012 3:50:18 AM PDT by tobyhill
“Stroke of the pen, law of the land.”
How did we ever come to this?
Why not 75 mpg? Or 100 mpg?
While our betters are chauffeured around in SUVs with armed security details. I'm sick of these b*st*rds!
It’s just a hidden tax. Of course they can’t make what Americans want to drive and get those mpg’s. Thus, if it doesn’t, they have a solution. Pay a gas guzzler tax. Yet another “use tax” hidden in plain sight.
Hmmm My VW bug only got about 28 mpg with the 1300 cc engine.
Did yours have a 500 cc engine or something?
There goal is to force more people to ride the bus and not own a car.
He was smoking some good weed when he got that MPG!! Maybe it was a real long downhill stretch!! LOL!!!
True, the amount of oil consumed will be reduced, because the middle class will not be able to afford to buy these cars, so people will be doing less driving.
Mark
Obama sets a good example
“When Rep. Alan Nunnelee (R-Miss.) asked (Energy secretary) Chu whether it’s his “overall goal to get our price” of gasoline lower, Chu said, “No, the overall goal is to decrease our dependency on oil, to build and strengthen our economy.”
Their “vision” for America has already driven food prices up, so when will we see the demand for food decrease and strengthen our economy?
In 2008, Secretary Chu stated, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.”
The thing about the Renault 4 is that it was actually pretty big. The engine was small, but the cargo area was huge.
I'm just waiting for the factory installed gooseneck trailer hitch.
There are cars in production and for sale around the world that already exceed that mileage—but they are prohibited from sale in the U.S. Do you wonder why?
Let’s do some math. Assume that we all had cars that got double the average miles per gallon. It stands to reason that we’d use half as much gasoline, right?
The average of state, federal and local taxes imposed on a gallon of gas is about 49 cents per gallon and these taxes raise about 37 billion dollars in taxes for government in an almost invisible transfer from the consumer to government.
Do you think the governments will let half of the money from this reliable tax cow disappear from their budgets? The answer will be a doubling of their taxes levied on each gallon of gas, raising prices to the consumer.
By the way, Exxon makes about 26 cents per gallon of gas, about half of the amount of taxes levied.
I’m tempted to say I’m glad I already have a good car...but somehow, I get the feeling that, in all his wisdom, a legal requirement to buy these new cars (assuming they actually make it onto the market) will follow them.
GM’s shutting it down again for at least a month from mid-Sept to mid-Oct. Going to retool the plant to make the 2014 Impala (bringing it back from Canada), so I’m not sure if Hamtramck keeps the Volt after that or if it goes somewhere else. They’ve been making a few Mailbus there along w/ the Volt, but Hamtramck will be the main ass’y plant for the Impala, so who knows how much space that would leave for the Volt? Not that an (over) production run of 2000 cars/ month needs that much space...
In Obama’s grand vision, most of us will be forced to use scooters and bicycles to get around.
That’s the way that it worked in the crap-hole of his dreams from his childhood. His vision of the future is America reduced to being a third-world cesspool.
It can be done GM made a car in 1996 that got 100 mpg but couldn’t produce it because it didn’t have any safety equipment.
Can’t have it all I guess.
I saw on the storm coverage that 3% of Cubans own automobiles.
That seems like a reasonable target for Baraq to shoot for.
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