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~ Here We Go Again, Go Again / We Ain't Learned Our Lesson Yet ~
President Obama will direct federal regulators on Monday to move swiftly on an application by California and 13 other states to set strict automobile emission and fuel efficiency standards, two administration officials said Sunday.
Yeah, that's a great idea, seeing as how automakers are doing so well worldwide. If you like cars and enjoy high performance, you better move quickly, because once these regs hit the books they'll soon be as rare as the proverbial hen's teeth. Even the boring ones will end up being expensive. Europeans shouldn't laugh too hard... unlike the 70s, your greenies are powerful enough to strangle all the cool cars over there too.
After all, to the left TANSTAAFL is just a nonsensical acronym.
IIRC, the quickest and cheapest way to meet these sorts of requirements is to put in smaller engines. The smaller engines put out less pollution and use less gas.
Well, except that people are used to a certain standard of accelaration, so they'll probably end up with their foot to the floor such that the vehicle doesn't get optimum mileage anyway.
Do they not see that the higher gas prices actually caused consumers to significantly change behavior? Enough that GM *gasp* is actually putting out a car that they claim doesn't even need gas for trips under 40 miles? Enough that SUVs became almost pariah-ish?
It seems that our hopes for a good president here are quickly going to hell.
Posted by: ronaprhys on January 26, 2009 11:09 AM