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Why your next car will be an overpriced golf cart
Don’t you wish you could be Barack Obama? He waved a magic wand sprinkled with unicorn farts and decreed from on high that henceforth all new cars will have to get 54.5 miles per gallon. Even if no one knows how to build a car like that yet.
The Obama administration has finalized regulations that will force automakers to nearly double the average gas mileage of all new cars and trucks they sell by 2025.
The rules mean that all new vehicles would have to get an average of 54.5 miles per gallon in 13 years, up from 28.6 mpg at the end of last year. The requirements will be phased in gradually between now and then, and automakers could be fined if they don’t comply.
The regulations, announced Tuesday, will change the cars and trucks sold in U.S. showrooms, with the goal of slashing greenhouse gas emissions and fuel consumption. Automakers will need to improve gasoline-powered engines, and sell more alternative fuel vehicles.
Line up to buy your new Government Motors Volt Jr! Sure it looks a lot like a golf cart, costs more than your first house, and only goes about 30 miles on a charge, but you can always recharge it overnight and why would you need to drive more than 30 miles anyway?
Piers Quare
August 30th, 2012
Iowahawk has already seen this future (um, past.) http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=rAqPMJFaEdY&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DrAqPMJFaEdY&gl=US
Xavier
August 30th, 2012
It’s the new technologies ruse again. Alternative energy? NT will save us. Close the coal plants? NT will save us. More efficient transportation? NT will save us. No domestic oil production? NT will save us.
It’s the same flawed ant and grasshopper philosophy that put us 15T in debt.
Tim
August 30th, 2012
Does anyone think Mittens is gonna undo this stupidity?
CAFE standards kill more people than diseases and war.
(actually, I made that up – I’m trying to think like a socialist)
I Luv Bacon
August 30th, 2012
I own 2 smooth and torquey V-8′s,
which pull me around with plenty of leg room for me and any company I haul.
I don’t see that changing anytime soon, unless the government motors SWAT team busts in and confiscates my wrenches and jackstands!
Bad Brad
August 30th, 2012
I’m going to need one of those with a large sunroof, and no doors.
Xavier
August 30th, 2012
There will be a carrot – probably some type of taxpayer financed rebate or break on taxes – and there will be a stick – taxes (or penalties, if you wish) on older vehicles, increasing yearly until you’re forced buy a new approved car.
And don’t try to tell me they can’t do it. They can, and they will, to impose Agenda 21 under the auspices of fighting Catastrophic Climate Change. We’re entering the Orwellian Age.
Stranded in Sonoma
August 30th, 2012
This is the old libtard belief in the “secret patent” for the 100 mile per gallon carburetor. These morons actually believe that it’s true and it looks like Obama just fell hard for this nonsense again.
The only time I’ve every heard of any vehicle getting 75mpg and over was when Smokey Yunick developed a pressurization system for internal combustion engines that vaporized the gasoline before it got to the engine. He was able to get about 90 mpg (according to himself) from a Ford Fiesta, I believe. But that imposed an increased safety factor and it was never put into production.
Sorry, Barry. You’re a schmuck. Go away. We won’t stop you.
Stranded in Sonoma
August 30th, 2012
@Bad Brad — They’re called bicycles.
OTA Mom
August 30th, 2012
At least one part of the economy will be booming–the home insurance companies, with all those new riders for fire due to micro-Volt.
Dr. Tar
August 30th, 2012
Obama once again demonstrating why economic decisions should never be left the government – they should be determined in the marketplace.
Bad Brad
August 30th, 2012
@Stranded, “They’re called bicycles.”
O.K., I’m not required to wear the standard issue Presidential fag pants and matching helmet ensemble am I?
Jethro
August 30th, 2012
They are already selling them in Europe. It’s called a Renault Twizy. I saw one parked next to a mini-cooper. It made the mini look like a full size sedan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szN3bLF1oP4
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serfer62
August 30th, 2012
54mpg! poof,
Its how you rig your equipent. While the mainsail of centeral of course, the options are Spinnecker or jib.
mkultra
August 30th, 2012
There was a video not too lomg ago from a guy who rented a Ford while in Europe that got twice the gas mileage of its US counterpart. He tried to get information from a Ford dealer when he got back in the US and he was told it is deliberately not made available in the US because that kind of gas mileage would cut onto the gubmint’s tax cut out of gasoline sales. Don’t know if it’s true but I wouldn’t put it past our gubmint to pull shi7 like that on us.
GW Bear
August 30th, 2012
My daughter and her husband have a 3 series BMW over in England and when we were there he commented that he got 33 mpg on the highway which isn’t bad until I did the math. He was speaking of the Imperial gallon which is 1.21 US gallons so he’s actually getting about 40 mpg US. They’ve got a 2010 which was rated at 32 mpg US so there definitely a difference between Euro spec and US.
Wraith
August 30th, 2012
@ I Luv Bacon:
I own 2 smooth and torquey V-8′s…I don’t see that changing anytime soon, unless the government motors SWAT team busts in and confiscates my wrenches and jackstands!
Dude. We live in a time when the motherlovin’ Weather Service is ordering ammunition. If you think you’re speaking tongue-in-cheek…wait for it.
Bob M.
August 31st, 2012
And I’ll STILL be wheeling down the road in my ’92 Dodge Ramcharger, with 4 1/2″ of lift, 36″ mudders, and Anthrax blaring from the stereo.
CRUSH ‘EM!!! >:-D
fullcirclethinker
August 31st, 2012
Just another way of saying cap and trade! What this really is is a carbon tax that the manufacturer will pass onto the consumer. Is there no hope?
Foso de liberales venenos
August 31st, 2012
What’s the price tag on a steam powered vehicle with a small nuclear reactor? They might go that far on a gallon of water. Aside from the fact that we’d all be dead from radiation after the first hundred or so auto accidents. The Chevy Volt is damn near as dangerous.