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Obama Raised the Standard, People will be Dismembered
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.
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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./