Oh, no, you're missing out on a lot of fun cars! ;-)
An who can forget the Deux Chevaux!
Posted on 08/29/2012 4:12:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
While all eyes were on the Republican National Convention in Tampa and Hurricane Isaac on the Gulf Coast, the White House was quietly jacking up the price of automobiles and putting future drivers at risk.
Yes, the same cast of fable-tellers who falsely accused GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney of murdering a steelworker's cancer-stricken wife is now directly imposing a draconian environmental regulation that will cost untold American lives.
On Tuesday, the administration announced that it had finalized "historic" new fuel efficiency standards. (Everything's "historic" with these narcissists, isn't it?) President Obama took a break from his historic fundraising drives to proclaim that "(by) the middle of the next decade, our cars will get nearly 55 miles per gallon, almost double what they get today. It'll strengthen our nation's energy security, it's good for middle-class families, and it will help create an economy built to last."
Jon Carson, director of Obama's Office of Public Engagement, took to Twitter to hype how "auto companies support the higher fuel-efficiency standards" and how the rules crafted behind closed doors will "save consumers $8,000" per vehicle. His source for these claims? The New York Times, America's Fishwrap of Record, which has acknowledged it allows the Obama campaign to have "veto power" over reporters' quotes from campaign officials.
And whom did the Times cite for the claim that the rules will "save consumers $8,000"? Why, the administration, of course! "The administration estimated that the new standards would save Americans $1.7 trillion in fuel costs," the Times dutifully regurgitated, "resulting in an average savings of more than $8,000 a vehicle by 2025."
The Obama administration touts the support of the government-bailed-out auto industry for these reckless, expensive regs. What they want you to forget is that the "negotiations" (read: bullying) with White House environmental radicals date back to former Obama green czar Carol Browner's tenure -- when she infamously told auto industry execs "to put nothing in writing, ever" regarding their secret CAFE talks.
Obama's number-massagers cite phony-baloney cost savings that rely on developing future fuel-saving technology. Given this crony government's abysmal track record in "investing" in new technologies (cough -- Solyndra -- cough), we can safely dismiss that fantasy math. What is real for consumers is the $2,000 per vehicle added cost that the new fuel standards will impose now. That figure comes from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
War on Middle-Class Consumers, anyone?
Beyond the White House-media lapdog echo chamber, the economic and public safety objections to these sweeping rules are long grounded and well founded.
For years, free-market analysts and government statisticians have warned of the deadly effect of increasing corporate auto fuel economy standards (CAFE). Sam Kazman at the Competitive Enterprise Institute explained a decade ago: "(T)he evidence on this issue comes from no less a body than the National Academy of Sciences, which issued a report last August finding that CAFE contributes to between 1,300 and 2,600 traffic deaths per year. Given that this program has been in effect for more than two decades, its cumulative toll is staggering."
H. Sterling Burnett of the National Center for Policy Analysis adds that NHTSA data indicate that "322 additional deaths per year occur as a direct result of reducing just 100 pounds from already downsized small cars, with half of the deaths attributed to small car collisions with light trucks/sport utility vehicles." USA Today further calculated that the "size and weight reductions of passenger vehicles undertaken to meet current CAFE standards had resulted in more than 46,000 deaths."
These lethal regulations should be wrapped in yellow police "CAUTION" tape. The tradeoffs are stark and simple: CAFE fuel standards clamp down on the production of larger, more crashworthy cars. Analysts from Harvard to the Brookings Institution to the federal government itself have arrived at the same conclusion: CAFE kills. Welcome to the bloody intersection between the Obama jobs death toll and the Obama green death toll.
A couple of strokes worth of Direct Injection with her would do me some good...
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Cool!
Bookmarked it.
Thanks, Elsie!
Oh, no, you're missing out on a lot of fun cars! ;-)
An who can forget the Deux Chevaux!
Two Opel GTs?
Can anyone say, “Project Time!”
http://www.midlifeclassics.com/opel2.html
http://www.opelgt.com/forums/polls/3800-cost-restoring-your-opel-gt.html
If you really want to go wild & crazy, here are a few ideas:
http://stephenmason.com/cars/opelgtv8m.html
Nope...
4 1/2!
If you wanna go fast and straight; then I guess one could stuff a V8 in one, but for better driveabilty, a V6 (aluminum block if possible) takes a LOT of weight off of the nose.)
I’ve always wondered about opening up the trunk area and putting a front wheel drive engine back there; relocating the gas tank to the front.
Thanks for that link, Elsie. I have done tables of several types successfully using HTML tags longhand, but that will be useful some time or other, I suppose. I, too, have bookmarked it.
I find that the pre /pre tag works just fine for almost all applications I need... can just copy and paste - the most important part of pre is that it forces a fixed-width font, and also forces keeping multiple spaces. That allows pretty simple typing of tables by hand, or simple adjustment of columns after a copy/paste operation.
Bwana- I flew the LookingGlass mission (airborne command post) in SAC - EC-135s mostly (refueling as both receiver and tanker) though also remained current in KCs and supersonic T-38s.
(Not sure where supersonic fits in that scheme of things)
Not meaning to flippant or irreverent, but remember, the Lord said, “...lo, I am with you always...”. Matt 28:20
Also, “...the Spirit of God was hovering...” Gen 1:2
Helicopter: a collection of spare parts flying in loose formation, beating the air into submission!
I suspect the flat-4 engine out of one of those new Subaru/Scion RWD cars would be perfect for the Opel GT. Low center of gravity, no problem with hood clearance and 200 hp without a turbo. Or, if you're more ambitious - the entire AWD drivetrain out of an Impreza. Upgrade to WRX specs later and really make the trees get all blurry.
Heh, I had a car that looked like a Fiat Topolino when I was younger. IIRC, it had a hole in the trunk, through which a large metal key was inserted to wind up the car’s powertrain.
I’ve always wondered about opening up the trunk area and putting a front wheel drive engine back there; relocating the gas tank to the front.
I think it has already been done. At least "Mellow Yellow" thinks so.
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