The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers has started running radio ads complaining about the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to raise Corporate Average Fuel Economy (or CAFE) standards for cars and light trucks to 56.2 miles per gallon by 2025. According to the Detroit Free Press, the sixty-second ads “feature an ominous voice warning ‘after tough times, today’s auto industry is on the road to economic recovery,’ but that fuel economy rules ‘threatens that progress’ –leading to less choice, higher prices, job losses, and an ‘electric vehicle mandate.’
This is the first sign that the auto industry is finally waking up to the reality that their cozy 2007 deal on CAFE isn’t such a good deal after all. CAFE standards are scheduled to increase to 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016.
Ralph Nader, self-proclaimed consumer advocate, told the Free Press that General Motors was showing bad taste for objecting to anything that the federal government wanted to do to them. “We give GM billions of dollars, and what do taxpayers get in return? Opposition to a policy that will clearly save them money and give them better cars.”
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It appears to be a good time for the rumored super battery I have read about in financial circles. I believe a Chinese with a name something like George Chang is the inventor. This battery, if true, will make electric cars practical and solar power will become the sole supplier. It will enable propellor driven aircraft to stay aloft indefinitely. Jet propulsion will still be necessary for space. It is the missing link that will legitimize sustainable energy.
All it will succeed in doing is making cars more expensive and placing them out of the reach of many of us.
I see this as a way to increase jobs. There will be more and more repair shops needed because nobody will want the new wimpy eco cars and will be keeping there old cars on the road as long as possible. Time to invest in the companies that make car parts for the repair market.
The car makers should also take a look at the UN (and Obama) Agenda to reduce the number of cars on the road. There are official plans to change our cities into bike path cities and “encourage” no rural living. Check out the grants to all cities through the DOT. EPA, HUD & DOT are giving out our tax dollars to all American cities to build bike paths and other “Agenda 21” efforts. “WakeUptoAgenda21” and “ResistUNAgenda21” pages on facebook are two places to learn more.
What is the government trying to do? Kill all businesses in the USA? Guess all these new regulations will be made by companies outside USA. What is the new car? a bike?
BobRGeologist July 24, 2011 at 2:06 am
“It appears to be a good time for the rumored super battery I have read about in financial circles. I believe a Chinese with a name something like George Chang is the inventor. ”
Oh goody! Which stock do we have to buy?
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