Posted on 05/20/2009 8:41:42 AM PDT by shortstop
I wonder how many people Obama killed yesterday.
Arguably, it was in the tens of thousands.
With one stroke of the presidential pen, surrounded by lackeys on short leashes, he designed the automobile of the future. No more will Detroit make cars according to people’s tastes, needs and market demand.
Now, we will have Obama cars.
And why not. Hitler designed cars, why should our Fuehrer be denied the pleasure?
Without congressional approval, without explaining it to the people, without trying to build public support, Caesar has declared that vehicles will get more gas mileage and give off less carbon dioxide. A man who’s never taken an engineering class has redesigned the American automobile.
And the near-daily assault on our system and liberties continues. The imperial presidency has given us not a king, but a pharaoh, a sun god whose every whim is our command.
But this isn’t about the arrogance of power, this is about how many of us will have to die because of this man’s arrogance of power.
To meet the dictator’s whim, American automobiles will have to be far smaller and lighter. Families accustomed to SUVs and mini-vans will have to crowd into light, compact sardine cans.
Which will spill them like so much produce onto the highway when they wreck.
See, American vehicles get the gas mileage they get because American vehicles are heavy. And they aren’t heavy to make them less fuel efficient, they are heavy to make them safe. All that reinforced steel, the stuff that holds a car together in a wreck, Obama’s formula means that has to go.
Lighter vehicles get better gas mileage. Obama has decreed that we get better gas mileage. That means he has decreed that we drive lighter vehicles.
That means he has decreed that more of us will die on the highways.
As the use of minivans and SUVs went up, the highway mortality rate went down. Why? Because people in minivans and SUVs are safer. Safety is directly proportional to vehicle size. The death rate in small vehicles is higher than the death rate in large vehicles.
And he is making vehicles smaller.
Hopefully it won’t be one of your children who has to be sacrificed for Chancellor Obama’s volks wagen.
But it’s more than dead people. It’s also expense and availability.
Pick-up trucks, for example, will probably become the most-expensive vehicles on the highway. To meet the mileage and emission standards, the most common single vehicle in American today – the pick-up truck – will probably be priced between $75,000 and $100,000, some have estimated.
Every car, the White House says, will probably increase in price something like $1,300. The argument is that that will be made up in savings on gasoline – except that new Democrat policies are expected to dramatically increase the price of gasoline.
And the electricity won’t be cheap, either. With the Caesar, as a candidate, pledging to bankrupt any company that tried to open a coal-fired power plant, and with his administration ruling out nuclear power and canceling federal leases to search for oil and gas, the price of electricity will soar and plugging a car in will cost more than pulling it up to the pump.
Also, you can forget four-wheel drive, all-wheel drive and air conditioning. Those are gas-guzzling luxuries that can’t be accommodated under the new rules.
The federal government has metastasized into something at direct variance with the Constitution, it is a monster that seeks to control every corner of our lives and our economy.
And now the Fuehrer is designing cars.
Maybe we misunderstood the campaign motto. As some have suggested, maybe what he was saying was: Chains you can believe in.
And live to regret.
Not if you buy vintage.
America’s corporations went liberal long ago. They fund a lot of liberal causes (including the homosexual lobby) that do nothing to benefit their bottom line for employees or shareholders.
Chains you can believe in.
yep
Isn’t importing a car expensive? I mean aren’t there fees and associated expenses with buying and importing a car that is not in compliance with gooberment rules?
Yes. You pay import taxes at a rate of about 30 percent. I’m not sure but I think the rate for Asian imports might be lower. What our Overlords are doing is to impose a regulatory regime that only affects what they consider to be the “little people” who need constant and pervasive government supervision. The Algores and Waxmans and BOs of the world will continue to be able to drive large, safe vehicles. The wealthy will continue to pick up new cars during their European vacations.
I am actually trying to convince hubby to let me buy an H3 Hummer just to piss off liberals. "But baby...it will be a valuable collector's item one day", LOL!
Give it time, my FRiend, give it time.
Nam Vet
Which brings to mind another point: I may well be tempted to keep my Honda Pilot a few more years instead of trading it in on an Obamacrapmobile. Way to destroy the car industry, Obama.
Just for the record, European cars get better gas milage than the the US will even in 2016 and there are fewer road deaths.
Why? Because the exam requriements for getting a license are more rigorous.
If you have ever driven in Germany and then driven in the US, then you know Americans DO NOT know how to drive. They are rude, and careless and reckless.
The size of the car isn’t the issue, it is the lack of driver education.
This article is absurd. Why shouldn’t everyone drive an Abrahms tank? Shouldn’t Volvo be subsidized. Give me a break. There are lots of good things to critize THE ONE about. Finally doing something about America’s oil addiction is not one. GWB was a coward for not doing this on Sept. 12, 2001.
I usually ignores trolls but please, how absurd. Let the US drill its own oil would solve that problem without central planning in Washington.
It’s like the old joke about two guys in a rowboat. A leak appears in the bow, and the guy in the stern says to himself “I’m sure glad the leak is on his side of the boat...”
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Unfortunately, I can’t laugh at that joke. My property fronts on a small river that floods in rainy times. I have actually had several people try to tell me that the reason for the flooding is that the drainage ditches need to be cleaned out! Never mind that the drainage ditches are well above the flood plain and they do their job until the stream floods over them! Some people just don’t have a working brain, the amazing thing is that many of them manage to make a living, get married and raise children all without the benefit of a functional brain.
Not if you buy vintage.
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The price of good used vehicles should take a big jump soon.
Ok, you call me a Troll but let me ask you some fuzzy math: The US has 22 billion barrels of proven reserves. That amounts to 4 years of total US consumption. If there are 3 times as much oil as estimted that means there are 12 years of reserves left. So how does that make the US oil independent? Stop being a stupid member of the stupid party and face reality. Cheap gas is not a fundamental American value. The uniqueness of the US lies in its ability to innovate, not the unrestricted exploitation of limited natural resources.
The real TROLLS and bains of conservatives are those who do not wish to see the world for what it is and only wish to see it for what they want it to be. Santa Claus isn't real my FRiend and the oil you buy funds the terrorists who want to kill you.
I told my wife that, and we’re planning to buy an old low tech vehicle that would be easy to maintain..
The Spike Jones song “Right In Der Fuhrer’s Face” came to mind..
You can make it cheap and quickly, but it won't be good.
You can make it cheap and good, but it wont be quickly.
You can make it quickly and good, but it won't be cheap.
Anyone that tells you differently is a liar.
Chevrolet car commercials 1955
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhdUnK2u2g&feature=related
Time to go back to the future ...
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