56MPG - Because Obama thinks you are an idiot
I have long held, as have many others, that the premise of the left is generally that people are idiots and incapable of fending for themselves.
This has certainly been the approach the current administration has taken, with massive new regulation and spending programs aimed at limiting choice, "leveling the playing field" and "protecting consumers from themselves."
Essentially, Obama et al believe that the vast majority of Americans are idiots.
The latest assault on choice is a proposed 56mpg CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) standard by 2025. Which is ridiculous considering there are no gasoline powered cars on the market today which get 56mpg average, not even hybrids.
CAFE means that of all the cars an automaker sells, they have to hit a certain average fuel economy. Essentially, the only way to get to 56mpg in 14 years is a massive switch from gasoline to electric, which Obama would of course love because he believes oil companies are pure evil, and we should all be running off of inefficient, overpriced and under-delivering alternative energy at this point.
The ONLY way that this proposal would make a damn bit of sense is if the government announced that at the same time it was granting regulatory approval for a wave of new nuclear power stations. Of course, nuclear power is somehow also hated by environmentalists, which makes about as much sense as construction workers hating pickup trucks, and driving Priuses instead.
I am just so goddamn sick of this administration and all the shit that it pulls. Somehow, we are living through Atlas Shrugged and a big chunk of the population believes that the moron is doing a good job.
This has certainly been the approach the current administration has taken, with massive new regulation and spending programs aimed at limiting choice, "leveling the playing field" and "protecting consumers from themselves."
Essentially, Obama et al believe that the vast majority of Americans are idiots.
The latest assault on choice is a proposed 56mpg CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) standard by 2025. Which is ridiculous considering there are no gasoline powered cars on the market today which get 56mpg average, not even hybrids.
CAFE means that of all the cars an automaker sells, they have to hit a certain average fuel economy. Essentially, the only way to get to 56mpg in 14 years is a massive switch from gasoline to electric, which Obama would of course love because he believes oil companies are pure evil, and we should all be running off of inefficient, overpriced and under-delivering alternative energy at this point.
The ONLY way that this proposal would make a damn bit of sense is if the government announced that at the same time it was granting regulatory approval for a wave of new nuclear power stations. Of course, nuclear power is somehow also hated by environmentalists, which makes about as much sense as construction workers hating pickup trucks, and driving Priuses instead.
I am just so goddamn sick of this administration and all the shit that it pulls. Somehow, we are living through Atlas Shrugged and a big chunk of the population believes that the moron is doing a good job.
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