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U.S. to Offer New Mileage and Emission Standards
New York Times ^
| May 18, 2009
| John M. Broder
Posted on 05/18/2009 11:00:10 AM PDT by reaganaut1
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This will be popular until American are forced to realize that they will be pushed into small cars and that
small cars get poor marks in collision tests . Why Americans seem to think automakers can just magically increase mileage without reducing quality in other ways or increasing price, I don't know.
To: reaganaut1
Why Americans seem to think automakers can just magically increase mileage without reducing quality in other ways or increasing price, I don't know.What auto makers are going to be left by then?
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posted on
05/18/2009 11:04:14 AM PDT
by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, Question everyone else)
To: reaganaut1
You beat me by 5 seconds posting this!
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posted on
05/18/2009 11:04:22 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
To: reaganaut1
It seems, when I talk to people who believe this is all good, they honestly think that the big bad corporations (car manufacturers, oil companies, etc) are all evil and want us to all die. They simply are so brainwashed, it’s amazing they can function in the real world.
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posted on
05/18/2009 11:04:52 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: reaganaut1
Uh... back to the headline...
Is Obama “offering” this or “mandating” it?
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posted on
05/18/2009 11:06:52 AM PDT
by
earlJam
To: reaganaut1
Wasn’t this one of Jimmy Carter’s brilliant moves that failed miserably?
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posted on
05/18/2009 11:07:38 AM PDT
by
Reagan69
(No Representation without Taxation !)
To: reaganaut1
FUBO never ran anything in his life, except for running America into the ground.
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posted on
05/18/2009 11:07:50 AM PDT
by
Sir Gawain
("Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect" - Thoreau)
To: brytlea
The real world isn’t real anymore, but anything the mainstream media says is real.
To: reaganaut1
Ths usual government logic; “We’ll say it will be done and it will be done because we say it will be done.”
Honestly, this is what sucks about being a rational person; you have to watch on as other people, often in positions of authority, make more and more illogical decisions.
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posted on
05/18/2009 11:08:31 AM PDT
by
RWB Patriot
("Let 'em learn the hard way, 'cause teaching them is more trouble than they're worth,")
To: RinaseaofDs
Maybe liberals are just hologams!
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posted on
05/18/2009 11:14:55 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: brytlea
hologams!The way I put away roast beef as a kid, my dad said I had to have a hollow leg. Is a hologam the same thing?
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posted on
05/18/2009 11:16:28 AM PDT
by
Travis T. OJustice
(I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
To: Travis T. OJustice
You know, I’d have to ask someone with more physics than me, but I say, why not?
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posted on
05/18/2009 11:18:08 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: Reagan69
Wasnt this one of Jimmy Carters brilliant moves that failed miserably? Ah, 0bama. It's like Jimmy Carter all over again.
Let's just hope the country will bounce back when the Pubbies retake control of the House in 2010.
To: reaganaut1
Why Americans seem to think automakers can just magically increase mileage without reducing quality in other ways or increasing price, I don't know. <Al Gore>Because we all know that the Detroit automakers have the engine that runs on water hidden in their bunkers. </Al Gore>
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posted on
05/18/2009 11:19:43 AM PDT
by
frogjerk
(C-NJ)
To: reaganaut1
Newsflash: oBama’s EPA overturns the laws of physics with this decree!
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posted on
05/18/2009 11:20:41 AM PDT
by
Virginia Ridgerunner
(Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
To: reaganaut1
Yeah, but at least we'll all be
equally subject to injury and death by driving small cars.
Social justice on the road...
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posted on
05/18/2009 11:22:04 AM PDT
by
DTogo
(High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
To: DTogo
Yeah, but at least we'll all be equally subject to injury and death by driving small cars. Social justice on the road...
They'll get my Jeep when they pry my cold dead hands off of the steering wheel!
To: Conservative_Rob
I’d prefer dealerships to offer the new “clean diesel” retro-fits for existing cars/SUVs.
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posted on
05/18/2009 11:27:05 AM PDT
by
DTogo
(High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
To: DTogo
No, we won’t all be equally subject. Not as long, for example, as my fourteen-year-old Dodge Ram still runs. There’s a word for Smart Cars and their ilk when my truck is near them. That word is “speedbump.”
Which means, the next logical step is for The One and his flying monkeys to start working on forcing older “non-green” vehicles like my truck off the road by tightening emissions rules on *existing* vehicles and forcing them to meet unreasonable standards. Watch for it in the next couple of years. The mechanism already exists to do it in many states. Here in North Carolina, for example, in addition to a yearly mandatory safety inspection, I have to have an emissions inspection on my truck as well. If they tighten the emissions rules to the point where that old 318 V8 can’t meet them, I can’t renew my registration, and the truck’s days on the road are over.
}:-)4
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posted on
05/18/2009 11:27:16 AM PDT
by
Moose4
(Hey RNC. Don't move toward the middle. MOVE THE MIDDLE TOWARD YOU.)
To: reaganaut1
Well it certainly has done wonders for the Central Valley of California. All the pollution moves East from the Greater San Francisco area into the central valley during the summer. For a long time we had stricter requirements, because our air was more polluted, even though the pollution came from the great environmentalists in SF. It is always do as I say not as I do. Think about Air Force One over NYC for a photo op. Did the mystery person who asked for the flight (not the approver) give any thought to the pollution caused by it? I think not.
Besides if you are rich, you can just by Carbon Credits from Al Gore and you are in compliance.
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posted on
05/18/2009 11:34:40 AM PDT
by
w1andsodidwe
(Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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