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Offline CG6468

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How will Obama bribe auto industry into accepting new fuel economy standards?
By: Philip Klein | Senior editorial writer Follow Him @Philipaklein | 07/05/11 12:39 PM

Last week, I wrote about the new fuel economy standards the Obama administration is preparing to propose that would effectively mandate what type of cars Americans have to drive.

The New York Times reports that the auto industry is busy pushing for handouts from the federal government in exchange for accepting new fuel standards:

    The automakers say the standard is technically achievable. But they warn that it will cost billions of dollars to develop the vehicles, and they express doubt that consumers will accept the smaller, lighter — and in some cases, more expensive — cars that result....

If bribes paid for by us don't work, shutting them down would work.

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I see it now....

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Well, he's pretty much got two of the Big Three by the balls already, so Ford would be pretty much on its own trying to fight it.  It looks like he doesn't need to bribe them at all, he can just go ahead and screw away.

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CAFE standards apply to the average fuel economy of the vehicles produced, right?  I can see some very expensive limited edition full-sized cars and trucks being produced.

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Well, he's pretty much got two of the Big Three by the balls already, so Ford would be pretty much on its own trying to fight it.  It looks like he doesn't need to bribe them at all, he can just go ahead and screw away.

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It won't effect him and his family and friends....they'll continue to drive the gas hogs(limoes) and point at others.
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin