Anyone with two brain cells to rub together knows that the US car industry is in dire straits and in major need of a complete business-plan overhaul, restructuring, and jettisoning of strangling union burdens and legacy costs. The One wants to save the car industry as well, right? Well, I had CNBC on mute this morning while enjoying my coffee (to watch the market sans talking-head chatter), and I saw the Obamanation at a press conference, ( a daily occurrence it seems). “What socialistic nonsense is the One talking about today, what raping and pillaging of the free-market notion, flavor of the day?” Destroying any vestige of what remains of the once proud US car manufacturing sector, of course! How is he doing this? Well in typical liberal mental deformation fashion, He is hawking new overall fleet fuel mileage standards, increasing
the mandated MPG rating to 35mpg. Wow, this will save Detroit folks, just in time!
The Bolshevik pols in Washington waxing romantically over European streets, dotted with go-bot sissy cars the size of a golf cart. Note downside of said car at picture to the right and left? Safety risk of small tin-can cars aren’t an issue, consumer-driven free-market choice be damned! The faint whisper of a once-free man heard in the distance – “But I want my wife and future children transported in a large and safe truck or SUV!” The pleas for freedom and sanity are drowned out by the incessant wailing of the Enviro – Left. “We’re saving Mother Earth, find your hemp sandals and sing with me, “Gaia rejoice”!
I awake from a Mother Earthly nightmare (or is that the mother of all earthly nightmares?) and find a pondering thought. “Surely this will not cost the taxpayer, the economy, the consumer anything, right? After all the One is praising this?”
From the AP here – “Administration officials said consumers were going to pay an extra $700, anyway, for mileage standards that had already been approved. The Obama plan adds another $600 to the price of a vehicle, a senior administration official said, bringing the total cost to $1,300 by 2016.” I feel so much better, how kind of them to add only $600 to the Bush-enacted increase,(gotta love the Nixonian Republicans), in mandated MPG law. Money grows on trees, right? Especially with future taxpaying young ‘uns paying the bill for costs like this, who cares! Junior on grandpa’s lap 2016, ” Grandpa, how come when you were my age, everyone could work hard and afford a car?” Grandpa – “Well, son, that was before Uncle Sam owned the car companies and made them so damned expensive that no one can afford a car, but at least the Unions are employed…
the Wise One, President Obamanation knows that Americans should take mass-transit and bicycles to work anyway junior, that’s just one of the reasons that He is president for life – remember that we don’t have the right to complain anymore He knows us better than we know ourselves, let us bow our heads in prayer….”
Total cost to America for these new mandates? Again from the AP – “The auto industry will be required to ramp up production of more fuel-efficient vehicles on a much tighter timeline than originally envisioned. It will be costly; the Transportation Department last year estimated that requiring the industry to meet 31.6 mpg by 2015 would cost nearly $47 billion.”
Do numbers even matter any more? $40 billion, $400 billion? $4 trillion? Free cars, Smart Cars, Cash for Clunker Cars, no need to fret, money grows on banana-republic inflation trees…… socialism breeds inequity, America will be brought to her knees…..
5.19.2009
Golf Carts, Smart Cars, and Go-Bots – Free-Market Pileup
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The MPG requirements do nothing to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, since even if you fill up a car half as much, the same percentage of the oil comes from foreign countries.
I wonder what loopholes there will be? There is a real need for pickup trucks for farmers and others, so those have to be sold. As the car companies are forced to produce flimsy, insubstantial, and unsafe cars in order to meet the requirments, watch a lot of “Farmers” buy more pickup trucks.
Thne when gas tax revenues fall off. Watch for the massive gas tax hike.
dmarks and fuzzys dad – Both of you are correct, probably all part of a sinister plot that is the Obamanation Admin’s true goal (s)
Fuzzy: Obama has promised this massive gas tax hike. Many times.
And yet, so often in left-wing bashing of so-caled “teabaggers” (tax protesters), they insist over and over again that President Obama is only raising tax rates on the very rich.
I’m still waiting for my junker checks so that I can buy that Aveo and get blown all over the road in the gorge. Weeeeeee… (Was my sarcasm better in text this time?)
Ananda – Perfect sarcasm, well done…..
That’s quite a rare picture of the CEO’s of Chrysler and GM you have at the top of the page.
Chuck – well said, it was hard to find, you have to know where to look…..
Am I gonna get a grillin’ if I say I want his policies to fail, especially the policy to force me in a car that I can’t fit in ? Did anybody try fitting 3 baby seats and 2 strollers in a smart-car ? OOOOppppsss I forgat, we should have aborted while there was time.
When shopping for a golf cart you should look for specific features that appeal to you. First of all you need to look for a golf cart model that will be big enough to accommodate your golf party. If you are a lone golfer or if you golf with a friend or significant other then a two seater is large enough for you, however, if you frequently golf with a group of four or more then you will need to select a model that can seat more people.
http://www.golfcartbiz.com/
bakar – thanks for the tip, I could add that there needs to be enough room for you, your signifigant other and a couple of clowns….
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