Obama's Fuel Economy Standards Threaten the Economy

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The current proposal is to increase fuel economy by 5% per year from 2107 to 2025. This would lead to a standard of about 55 mpg in 2025 but a standard of a little over 37 mpg in 2017.
The only way to achieve this by 2025 is to have at least half of all new cars be electric (such as the Nissan Leaf) or an electric gas engine combo (such as the Chevy Volt).
These cars cost at least $10,000 per year extra over conventional cars. How does the administration plan to get individuals to buy these cars?

Bob of TX 10:28AM July 27, 2011

Although the masses really didn't comprehend how much catalytic converters would improve the air when they were required on new models rolling of the assembly lines "back in the day," air quality has definitely improved especially behind another vehicle.
However, most people in America really do not care for legislation starting in the west and regulating the nation eastward. I do not live in California and my state does not have the issues California has. I do not want California dictating my lifestyle in another state.
I suppose the EPA would have us put main sails atop our subcompacts and let the wind drive us down the road.
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Robyn of TX 9:37PM July 26, 2011

that has benefited this country?
or
Blacks?
or
Hispanics?
or
Economy?
Has anything program or policy that he has put into place improved any aspect of our lives?
Everyone should go back and listen to all the obummer hype in 2007/2008 and then ask yourself “was this really the guy for the job?” All the warning signs were there, voting record, resume, & the friends he kept. I hope and pray that America has learned its lesson and starts to really access the quality of the person requesting your vote. The sad thing is we have come to expect everyone to be perfect and to have never made a mistake. Anyone that has had great success, has also had great failures. Failures are the things that teach us long term lessons. We need to look at the candidates like we do athlete. Do we judge Michael Jordon by the number of missed shots or Babe Ruth by the number of strike outs, no we judge them of their successes, just image what the political world would look like if we did the same. I not saying that is anyone that breaks the law they should get a pass, but just because one person from a party does something does make the entire party bad. The same thing goes for race, we have to stop the broad brush finger pointing and
I find his leadership from behind to be very odd at best. He promised he would fix anything and everything, but has done very little to fix anything. He has been a very non-inspirational figure and will go down in history as a complete failure as the President of the United States. What a miss opportunity to go down in history as a great President and to inspire generations of Americans.
The Hope is gone and the change has been for the worse.
He told us in his own words that after 3 years things were not better, then he should be fired.

Larry of CA 12:38PM July 26, 2011

The EPA is an autocratic, dogmatic. imperious monstrosity, which distorts facts and statistics to suit its own radical, political/theological agenda.
Over the past 50 years, liberal, schools (Is there any other kind?) have churned out hundreds of thousands of Environmentalist zealots who have inexorably moved through the chain of command of the Department of the Interior, The EPA, The National Park Service, NOAA, as well as state and local Wildlife and Fish and Game Departments, and various environmental commissions.
Each year these agencies add and strengthen regulations - each one a type of Lilliputian thread pressing us down, - slowly wringing and crushing the life out of energy production, industry, outdoor access and recreational opportunities.
These bureaucracies of government are implementing a slow, laborious imprisonment - relentlessly confining and limiting our economic and outdoor freedoms to the point of prohibition of just about any industrial, energy producing or recreational endeavor or pursuit.
Small "e" environmentalism has been hijacked, distorted, and martialed into an intolerant, dogmatic religion, "Environmentalism". Its cohort, "Global Warming", provides even more impetus and societal penetration.
This New Age religion holds reign over the media, education, politicians, courts and the bureaucracies of government. It has penetrated the imaginary wall of separation between church and state - a wall initially concocted by progressives to fend off the evils of Christianity.
Now, Environmentalist theologians march shoulder to shoulder with progressive politicians - a Green phalanx pointed at the heart of our economic and personal liberties.
America... no, the world, needs to awaken to this new, religious intolerance which slowly envelops it.
As always, remember, "Going Green Has Gone Too Far".

R.L. Schaefer of CA 12:14PM July 26, 2011