
by: Scott Martin posted: 2009-05-19 16:36:00
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Beats the hell out of "Bush lied, people died," if you ask me. Plus it has the added bonus of actually being accurate.
The following idea is as sound as the glorified riding-lawnmowers to which we will be bound.
President Barack Obama is proposing on Tuesday the highest auto fuel efficiency standards ever attempted in the United States...If the proposal is enacted, by 2016 the fleet average requirement would be 35.5 miles per gallon, said the official, who declined to be named. Currently the CAFE standard is 27.5 mpg for cars and 24 mpg for light trucks.
We've already got a collapsed economy. Soon we'll have more collapsible cars that nobody wants to buy. When our President takes over the auto industry and then angles to limit consumer choice within the same month, it's time to recognize that we are rapidly approaching a command economy.
Meanwhile, our roadways will be more dangerous. Steve Milloy, author of Green Hell, notes that Obama's CAFE standards will cause more American deaths than the Iraq War that Obama campaigned against.
(T)he only way for carmakers to meet these standard is to make smaller, lighter and deadlier cars.The National Academy of Sciences has linked mileage standards with about 2,000 deaths per year. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that every 100-pound reduction in the weight of small cars increases annual traffic fatalities by as much as 715.
In contrast in the more than six years since the Iraq war began, there have been 4,296 deaths among American military personnel.
But surely the economic effects and the (ahem) effects on global warming make it worth a couple thousand American lives each year, right?
The Natural Resources Defense Council said that the 35 MPG standard would save about one million gallons of gas per day. So how does that savings balance against the 2,000 fatalities per year that the National Academy of Sciences says are caused by those same lighter cars?For the sake of being utilitarian, let’s generously assume that the mileage standards reduced the price of gasoline by $1. That would translate to daily savings of $1 million. Is that savings worth killing more than five people per day, plus other non-fatal injuries and property damage?
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency -– for the purposes of risk assessment -– values a single human life at $6.9 million dollars. So under the new mileage standards, it would cost about $35 million per day in human lives (not including non-fatal injuries) to save $1 million in gas.
I guess that's a "no." And we haven't even gotten to damage this will cause American automakers. But that's Obama's problem now - he runs it.
The only positive I can see now is that nobody can argue anymore that Obama is not a socialist. We at Patriot Room spent the better part of six months telling everyone who would pay attention that, in fact, he was. And we were ridiculed. The country is now screwed, but hey, at least we were right.
Not much of a comfort, is it?
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Yeah, no doubt, vagabond trader.
A few more rhymes from someone who calls himself "Upstate NY Guy," at Free Republic:
Obama followed his whims
People lost their limbs.
Obama designed the frames
People went up in flames.
Obama orchestrated
People's limbs were amputated.
Obama improved the mileage
People became raw silage.
May as well have a laugh, even if it is more than just a gaffe.
Regardless of that, the real issue is CO2 emissions, of which mankind contributes 0.117%.
The real issue is that it's all a bunch of crap. Which I guess is what you were saying.
Back in November, the House passed its health care bill by a narrow 220 to 215 margin, with 39 Democrats voting against it. Since then, the one Republican who voted for it — Joseph Cao — has indicated that he would not support the bill a second time around given the weaker language on abortion in the Senate version. In addition, Florida Rep. Robert Wexler already retired prematurely. Factor in Murtha’s death today, and Pelosi is down to 217 votes — one short of passage. To pass the bill at some point in the next few months, she’ll need to flip a Democrat who is already on record voting against the bill.
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Don't think that Republicans can't be sucked in when an anti-Wall Street lynch mob gets its blood up. Recall that Sarbanes-Oxley, the devastating antigrowth response in 2002 to the Enron and Worldcom scandals, was passed with virtually unanimous support by Republicans in Congress, and signed by a Republican president. Recall that last year 85 House Republicans voted for a 90% tax on bonuses for any employee of any bank that took more than $5 billion in TARP money. Investors got some good news last Friday. Stocks resisted following through on Thursday's sharp plunge after (Congress) reached an impasse on bank re-regulation. That's a nice down payment on what investors need a lot more of now: proof that the GOP won't join Democrats in a populist rush to seek revenge against Wall Street.
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Just two years after Mr. Obama helped his party pull in record Wall Street contributions — $89 million from the securities and investment business, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics — some of his biggest supporters, like Mr. Dimon, have become the industry’s chief lobbyists against his regulatory agenda. Republicans are rushing to capitalize on what they call Wall Street’s “buyer’s remorse” with the Democrats. And industry executives and lobbyists are warning Democrats that if Mr. Obama keeps attacking Wall Street “fat cats,” they may fight back by withholding their cash.
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The Dow, down almost 104 points, had its 10th triple-digit move in 16 trading days. Shares of big banks pulled the market lower, extending a slump that has led to four straight weekly losses.I can't, for the life of me, understand why bank stocks would be dropping. Inexplicable.
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Contrary to President Obama's promises, voters say special interests have more influence on the political process now than they did a year ago, according to a new poll. The poll, paid for by groups looking to curb the Supreme Court's recent campaign finance ruling, found that majorities of both Republicans and Democrats say special interests have increased their influence since the president took office, and they say Mr. Obama has not done enough to fight back.
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If the starting point for this meeting is the job-killing bills the American people have already soundly rejected, Republicans would rightly be reluctant to participate,” the pair explained in a letter to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel. They also said President Barack Obama should remove reconciliation from the table. Using budget reconciliation rules to move healthcare reform in the Senate would mean Democrats would only need 51 votes on procedural measures instead of 60... On Sunday afternoon however, Obama refused to say he would start from scratch.
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An announcement from his office said Murtha died at 1:18 p.m. at the Virginia Hospital Center, where he had been admitted last week after having his gallbladder removed at Bethesda Naval Hospital.
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The scientist at the centre of the “climategate” email scandal has revealed that he was so traumatised by the global backlash against him that he contemplated suicide. Jones, 57, said he was unprepared for the scandal: “I am just a scientist. I have no training in PR or dealing with crises.”Actually, he's using the term "scientist" loosely there, given that real scientists don't do what he did. And while he may not have any training dealing with crises, he sure was good at generating one: it was called the global warming crisis.
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The outcome will be even worse than stated above. I mean does anyone believe The Obama will allow peons to save money on fuel? With overall decline in gas consumption due to higher cafe standards, big gubbermint will have to raise the fed fuel tax to quench its thirst for OPM. As for safety, yeah,like he and the fellow travelers care so much./