Another blammo attack on US citizens

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Politics
Automakers Warn of Huge Job Losses Under Obama Fuel Efficiency Plan

By Jim Angle

Published July 22, 2011

Automakers are pushing back against an Obama administration proposal that would almost double vehicle fuel-efficiency standards, launching a new ad campaign warning of hundreds of thousands of job losses across the country.

The White House has long been negotiating with automakers and environmentalists over the enormous increase in fuel efficiency standards. But the automakers, who say the standards would stagger the auto industry, appear to be losing faith in the possibility of a compromise.

President Obama was hoping to get automakers to sign off on a nearly 100 percent increase in mileage standards by 2025, aiming for another Rose Garden announcement like the one in May 2009 when he announced they would raise it to 29.5 miles-per-gallon for model year 2012, on their way to 34 miles-per-gallon for 2016.

But now the White House has a much bigger goal in mind.

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So if consumers want pickups, sport utility vehicles and vans to take the kids to soccer, the automakers would face fines because they have no control over what people buy.

56 MPG??????        

220,000 jobs lost? BFD, for obastard

[thelaughingman]

I can almost imagine Obama holding the auto manufacturer bailout over their heads like a leash.

[FreeBorn]

The green meanies want us all to be Amish and Zero The Hero wants us all to be unemployed and on the government teet, comrade.

[Freeper]

I can almost imagine Obama holding the auto manufacturer bailout over their heads like a leash.

He would never do that. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

56 MPG??????        

220,000 jobs lost? BFD, for obastard

It's ****ing ridiculous, unless he wants the US makers to convert to making only Diesel Rabbits with retrofitted bicycle pedals for the flat stretches.

[Boudicca]

Guess he'll have to make exceptions for his limousine Hollywood liberal buddies.  In the extremely unlikely event this Rose Garden announcement comes to pass, the new law mandating standards will have as many (loop)holes as Swiss cheese, or his health care bill.   

[JohnnyReb]

We can obtain that kind of mileage....as long as everywhere we go is down hill.

[thundley4]

We can obtain that kind of mileage....as long as everywhere we go is down hill.

That's where the country is headed under Obama anyway.

[docstew]

We can obtain that kind of mileage....as long as everywhere we go is down hill.

Wouldn't be surprised if this administration tried to mandate that...

[unbiased]

This type of stuff goes further than Obama. It's part of the Bilderberg Group's plan for a New World Order. Beck has been warning of this for a long time and if you search further, you will find warnings dating back to the 1970s. They are inching closer every day.