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Trump’s Rollback of CAFE Mandates Is a Big Win for Car Buyers, Consumer Choice
The Daily Signal ^
| August 16, 2018
| Nicolas Loris
Posted on 08/22/2018 10:25:29 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: 100American; SheLion; Eric Blair 2084; -YYZ-; 31R1O; 383rr; AFreeBird; AGreatPer; Alamo-Girl; ...
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posted on
08/22/2018 10:26:46 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
To: Red Badger
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posted on
08/22/2018 10:27:36 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Oh noes!!!!! How could he. The erf is only hanging on by a slender thread as it is. 🙀🔥🌡⚡️. 🐂💨💩
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posted on
08/22/2018 10:31:27 PM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
08/22/2018 10:31:42 PM PDT
by
Dogbert41
(When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
To: rktman
The Polar Bears are gonna EXPLODE!
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posted on
08/22/2018 10:34:31 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: Dogbert41
“37 mpg is still BS!”
Well, FWIW, I drive my 6-speed, C5 Corvette Coupe between the Bay Area and Monterey (112 miles from one home to another) and am averaging 31 to 34 mpg portal to portal driving between 70 and 75 mph. Mixed highway/city driving still nets 21 to 23 mph ( as long as I don’t participate in any Stoplight Grand Prix). Getting the aerodynamics right is a big factor in milage improvement, and you don’t end up having to drive a golf cart to meet the CAFE standards.
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posted on
08/22/2018 10:53:45 PM PDT
by
vette6387
To: Dogbert41
I agree. It should be lowered to 25 mpg . . . for starters.
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posted on
08/22/2018 11:01:28 PM PDT
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Tolerance Sucks Rocks
( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
To: rktman
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posted on
08/22/2018 11:03:00 PM PDT
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Tolerance Sucks Rocks
( The US Constitution ....... Invented by geniuses and God .... Administered by morons ......)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Oh no, now how will the left force everyone to drive electric vehicles because one size fits all or else?
*Snerk*
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posted on
08/22/2018 11:08:27 PM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Darksheare
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posted on
08/22/2018 11:34:04 PM PDT
by
rfp1234
(I have already previewed this composition.)
To: Dogbert41
37 cafe is only 17 to 28 on the window sticker. We are already there. Game over.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
We need car kits we can build and soup up without this epa crap.
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posted on
08/23/2018 12:07:42 AM PDT
by
raiderboy
(Trump promised “shut down the government” in September; if no wall!!)
To: raiderboy
Kit cars have been around for decades. Go buy one and build it yourself.
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posted on
08/23/2018 1:28:29 AM PDT
by
Cobra64
(Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Imagine if the Obama CAFE standards were kept. In 2025 American roadways would look like Cuba with 30+year old trucks and SUVs patched up and still running because there were no newer models available that could haul the loads or meet the needs of the motoring public
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posted on
08/23/2018 2:11:17 AM PDT
by
The Great RJ
("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatcher)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
In fact, a 2011 paper from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that if vehicle weight, horsepower, and torque were held constant at 1980 levels, fuel efficiency would have increased 60 percent from 1980 to 2006 instead of the 15 percent increase that did occur. In 1980, I had a little 185 cc motorcycle that got ~65 to the gallon. Currently, I have a 250 cc motorcycle that gets ~84 to the gallon. Ignoring the engine size difference, that is about a 23% increase in fuel economy.
Are motorcycles held to the same standards as cars?
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posted on
08/23/2018 2:52:31 AM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: rktman
The erf is only hanging on by a slender thread as it is. The thread may be slender, but it's been holding the earth suspended in space for several billion years. I think it will last a little bit longer.
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08/23/2018 2:53:56 AM PDT
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exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
If the uniparty wants to improve fuel efficiency, an easy solution: Dump the ethanol mandate.
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08/23/2018 3:31:52 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
CAFE standards should be abolished. They were imposed initially as an anti-OPEC/anti-oil-import measure. They are advanced today on environmental grounds. Both of these are defensible public policy goals (about which people can disagree). But the correct way to pursue them was ALWAYS for Congress to have the backbone to sharply raise gasoline excise taxes. The market would do the rest. But that would require politicians to accept accountability and to defend their choice in the political debate. CAFE standards were never anything more than a backdoor scheme intended to mislead the public, who were invited to blame automakers rather than politicians for higher costs.
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posted on
08/23/2018 4:35:52 AM PDT
by
sphinx
To: rfp1234
Just watched that episode a couple of weeks ago.How fitting.
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posted on
08/23/2018 4:41:31 AM PDT
by
HANG THE EXPENSE
(Life's tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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