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…..