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The Obama administration has announced new, higher gas mileage standards for cars in the U.S. These will have the effect of forcing car companies to produce even smaller cars, among other things.
Repeated studies have shown that smaller cars have higher injury and fatality rates in collisions, than larger cars. The Obama administration, and the Democrat congress that passed the basic rules over Republican objections, seems to feel these additional deaths are an acceptable price to pay, to get better gas mileage and save oil.
They are also mandating levels of CO2 and other greenhouse gases. This despite the fact that, even after 30+ years of research and probes, no one has ever found any actual evidence that man's activities have had any effect on global warming/cooling at all.
SSDD for the leftist extremists in the Obama administration.
Fuel-economy rules set 35.5 mpg standard for 2016 models
by James R. Healey, USA TODAY
The government announced tough new fuel-economy standards Tuesday in a proposed rule that also would place the first nationwide limits on vehicles' greenhouse gas emissions, blamed for global warming. The Obama administration outlined its targets in May, but final details were uncertain until the joint announcement by the federal Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency.
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Getting car companies to commit to manufacturing higher MPG cars is a way to get more people to drive sensibly sized cars like Honda Accords, and less to drive gas guzzling SUVs like Hummers and Ford Expeditions.
It will also push American car manufacturers to improve gas technology, which has hardly moved in the past 50 years. Cars were getting 20 mpg back in the 1970's.
It's great that we now have a president who isn't "in bed" with the oil companies!
Getting car companies to commit to manufacturing higher MPG cars is a way to get more people to drive sensibly sized cars like Honda Accords, and less to drive gas guzzling SUVs like Hummers and Ford Expeditions.
It will also push American car manufacturers to improve gas technology, which has hardly moved in the past 50 years. Cars were getting 20 mpg back in the 1970's.
Nonsense is right.
Manufacturers have made great advancements in order to meet federally mandated agendas which are at odds with overall effeciency i.e. safety/ emission standards vs. economy.
Saves on parking spaces, too. Smaller garages. I remember when gasoline was 25 cents a gallon. I have noticed that "worried pinched look" on the faces of people pumping gas into their monster trucks.
Manufacturers have made great advancements in order to meet federally mandated agendas which are at odds with overall effeciency i.e. safety/ emission standards vs. economy.
And yet even recent studies show that when small cars collide with each other, more deaths and injuries result than when big cars collide with each other.
And when a small car collides with a big car, of course the discrepancy is even worse.
How many Americans will pay with their lives, for the policies of the Obama administration?
Now I get, Obama plans to get those old folks killed by making them drive small cars instead of using the death panels. That makes sense.
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