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Pandora:
Feds should propose graphic warning labels on small cars they are pushing rather than cigarettes. Here are two suggestions. I suggest the feds do one better and provide warning labels for small cars the are pushing via unrealistic CAFE standards.




--- Quote ---A reminder from USA Today back in 2007: People buy small cars even though they can be deadly

    Americans are buying more small cars to cut fuel costs, and that might kill them.

    As a group, occupants of small cars are more likely to die in crashes than those in bigger, heavier vehicles are, according to data from the government, the insurance industry and the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).

    The newest small vehicles, of course, meet today's strict safety standards and can be laden with the latest safety hardware, such as stability control and side air bags. They are safer than ever. And differing designs mean some small cars are safer than average. But even the safest are governed by the laws of physics, which rule in favor of bigger, heavier vehicles, even in single-vehicle crashes.

And from Edmonds:

    ...the numbers don't bode well for small cars. Below is a chart from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) showing the latest fatality rates for the different vehicle sizes. (The mini car category wasn't included because the sample size of registered vehicles was too small.)
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I remember somebody bitterly complaining about being "forced" to buy a bigger vehicle in order to protect himself and his family from the adverse consequences of a run-in with an SUV or pickup truck, while ignoring the fact that tractor-trailers et al. are ubiquitous.

H/T Doug Ross @ Journal

Pandora:

--- Quote ---The Obama Administration is issuing rules—without congressional approval—to significantly change the way the auto industry is doing business, forcing it to make vehicles that few are buying today (only 2,745 Chevy Volts have been sold this year). And in order to achieve that compliance, the Administration will likely have to fund the retooling plants and subsidize consumers’ purchase of the high-mileage cars. Meanwhile, the cost of gasoline is going up, yet the President has restricted drilling in the Gulf, leaving the United States unable to tap its domestic oil reserves.

The President’s environmental and energy policy is driving in circles. The costs are high, and the American people and businesses will pay the price.
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The auto industry and the unions joined forces with the greenies to promote this now, in a change of heart, once the word "subsidies" was included in the deal.  Still spending money WE DON'T HAVE.

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/28/morning-bell-the-obama-epas-brave-new-future/

Sectionhand:
There's an article in today's Washington Examiner about this .

IronDioPriest:

--- Quote ---The Obama Administration is issuing rules—without congressional approval—to significantly change the way the auto industry is doing business, forcing it to make vehicles that few are buying today (only 2,745 Chevy Volts have been sold this year). And in order to achieve that compliance, the Administration will likely have to fund the retooling plants and subsidize consumers’ purchase of the high-mileage cars...
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How on God's Earth can the Republicans stand by and allow this blatantly unconstitutional activity? From where does "the administration" get funds to retool plants and subsidize consumer purchases?

For Pete's sake.  ::gaah::

They're not going to stop. It's the people and the constitution, or its tyranny right out of humanity's worst nightmares. There will be no peaceful transition to European socialism with this bunch. They are the real thing. They are going to do their damndest to give Thomas Friedman his greatest desire.

John Florida:
Last night on my way out with the wife I caught the tail end of a report trying to discuss what the cost of these new standards would be,did anybody see it? All I heard was that 250K jobs lost from the drop in sales and the high cost of this economy.

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