The Obama administration’s Department of Transportation (DOT) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are quietly moving to make another round of changes to CAFE standards. (That’s Corporate Average Fuel Economy) The changes would affect model years from 2017 to 2025.
They tried to push this through twice before and it fell flat with both manufacturers and consumers in the polls, the White House now is trying a different tactic. If you want to push through an unpopular program, you need a villain to blame, high gas prices, of course. “We’re doing it to save the consumers!
Okay, we all want more efficient cars. But there is a trade off here. By pushing manufacturers beyond reasonable, attainable goals we are sacrificing our safety. The Obama administration is bereft of even a basic knowledge of economics and physics. It is staffed with so-called experts and academics that are manipulated into "making" things happen. And those things are Obama's delusional fantasies. It's not only a half-witted management style, it's dangerous.
As car manufactures are pushed harder and harder to produce the governments desired results for fuel efficiency, they will have to compromise on the size, and weight of cars. Major structural and technology changes will have to be made to vehicles to achieve these absurd mileage goals, and we will become the guinea pigs for Obama's silly ideological adventures.
A 2002 National Research Council study found that the federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards contributed to about 2,000 deaths per year through their restrictions on car size and weight. EPA official mission may be "to protect human health and the environment, and while it it fixates on minute risks such as radon in your drinking water, it cares little about whether or not you and/or your family are sacrificed for the "cause" in one of these small dangerous experimental vehicles, which by the way get great gas mileage !
There are a lot of questions about the wisdom of such foolish, self-serving legislation that the MSM is just NOT addressing. While fuel efficiency is important, we need to be realistic about our programs. Are they attainable ? Will they cost jobs ? Are they safe ?
Yes, it will cost many jobs. According to a new report by The Center for Automotive Research the number could be as high as 264,500 jobs lost just from new automobile fuel efficiency standards being considered by the Environmental Protection Agency. Meanwhile, the cost of a new vehicle could go up by nearly $10,000 and sales could be reduced by 5.5 million vehicles annually, not a good idea in this economy.
How do you define government overreach ? When the government takes over an entire private industry like the auto industry, then pushes, unrealistic, dangerous standards on the industry, and forces through market manipulation me and my family to buy and drive cars that are may be dangerous and deadly, that's too much.
While Obama traverses the country giving re-election speeches about creating jobs, jobs, jobs, his minions continue to kill jobs, and the economy. Obama and his boot licking followers at the EPA, DOT, NRLB, et al, need to be stopped from forcing new regulations on American business and consumers whether they like it or not, no matter the price.
Also consider :
Small Cars Are Dangerous Cars
The statists at the EPA have made their bid for control of the economy of the United States of America and destroy any semblance of rights of American citizens.
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