Tuesday - June 28, 2011
Never Enough For Obama
This is a Smart Car. You may have seen them around. It’s the tiniest little thing you’ve ever seen with a windshield; the Smart Car has a 73 inch wheelbase, is just over 5 feet wide, and is less than 9 feet long. With it’s 1 liter, 3 cylinder engine that makes just 70hp and gives the two seater an anemic 12.8 second 0-60 time, the Smart Car delivers 33mpg around town and 41mpg on the highway.
According to Obama, this vehicle is way too big for you, way too powerful, and gets terrible gas mileage.
WASHINGTON—The Obama administration is considering a fleetwide average of 56.2 miles per gallon for all new cars and trucks sold in the US by 2025, The Wall Street Journal reported late Saturday citing two people briefed on the matter said.
The proposal would roughly double current fuel-economy targets, and would likely raise the price of some cars by several thousand dollars.
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US officials presented the proposal to representatives of Detroit auto makers last week to determine the costs of such a proposal, said one of the people briefed on the matter. This person emphasized that the 56.2 mpg figure was floated as a means to kick negotiations among California, environmental groups and the auto industry into the final phase, and that the numbers could change.The administration has said previously that it is looking at requiring cars average between 47 and 62 mpg by 2025.
Environmental groups and the state of California have pressed for the 62 mpg target or something close to that, while the industry has lobbied for a target on the lower end of the administration’s range.
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The targets for 2025 would build on the administration’s requirement that autos average 35.5 mpg by 2016.
Fleetwide average. That means that he wants cars and minivans and light trucks that deliver far, far greater mpg than average, to balance out what few larger or more high performance vehicles are allowed to be sold. Which could mean that the above vehicle, which looks like a frog with wheels attached, could be the SUV of the future. Because it gets such awful gas mileage.
Now that’s the Change I’ve been Waiting for.
Posted by Drew458
on 06/28/2011 at 12:12 PM
Filed Under: • Democrats-Liberals-Moonbat Leftists • Oil, Alternative Energy, and Gas Prices • planes, trains, tanks, ships, machines, automobiles •
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