The Obama Administration has already established the toughest fuel economy standards for passenger vehicles in U.S. history. These standards require an average performance equivalent of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, which will save the average driver more than $8,000 in fuel costs over the lifetime of the vehicle and eliminate six billion metric tons of carbon pollution – more than the United States emits in an entire year.
Savings will be greater than total emissions! Now we know where the Enron accountants went.
To be fair, I believe they mean “over the vehicle lifetime”. To be even fairer, that would mean CO2 savings of 10% PA with a 10 year vehicle life, or 5% PA over a 20 year life.
In other words, any US savings in CO2 would be exceeded by China’s increases alone. And dwarfed by global increases.
To be fair, the paragraph is completely incomprehensible and appears to have been written by an illiterate.
“Over the vehicle lifetime”
That one got me, too. I was wondering who pays $8,000 in fuel costs. Over the vehicle lifetime. Sheesh.
I do. So far with my current vehicle, I have burned through about 5,400 gallons of fuel, and anticipate an additional 3,500 or so before I get a new one. I have an 80 mile round trip commute, and my nearest family is a thousand miles away.
…Not to mention that the price of the car that can get 54.5 miles per gallon will be more than enough to eclipse the $8,000 dollars in fuel savings.
Lets talk about carbon pollution instead of all the other Obama scandals, schemes and scams.
It’s fairly ridiculous to bank on emissions regulations, which won’t become enforced until +10 years from now, and even if and when they do become enforced won’t effect cars that predate the Obama regs. It’s fairly ridiculous to assume that eveybody will own a car that gets 54.5 mpg when that car doesn’t exist today. I won’t be driving an Obamamobile. You can bet on that. It’s fairly ridiculous to believe that Obama. who wouldn’t know how to change a spark plug, can create a car that meets peoples needs and still gets 54.5 mpg by the stroke of a pen. It’s fairly ridiculous to throw out a figure like saving $8K for fuel when we don’t know how much more cost will be involved with producing a car that meets the stricter regs.
If these stupid CAFE regs still exist in 2025 it will just be a scam to funnel “carbon credits” (Cold Hard working people’s CASH) to the AlGores and Elon Musks of the world. The typical car produced in 2025 won’t do 54.5 mpg city at least not if it’s an exclusively Internal combustion engined car.
What it really means is there will be parking lots full of Chevy Volts that nobody wants, but it raises the corporate fuel mileage rating; a rising tide lifts all boats as they say. As consumers and taxpayers will continue subsidizing the Chevy Volts (and competitor copycat versions) that nobody wants, it also means U.S. vehicles will be much more expensive and much lower quality. They will be Dixie cups when Obama gets done with showing engineers how cars and trucks should be designed.
But hey, EV’s will be more affordable because they depreciate 50% in value the first year, so more people will able to afford them!
Of course, it’s not all good news. They have found that hybrid and electric cars pay less in gasoline taxes used to maintain the highways, supposedly. Now, they want a special tax on these vehicles to make up the difference. There certainly is no free lunch here. His more efficient cars mean that fuel taxes will have to go up, so there go the “savings.”
He claims so many savings for us that we should all be rolling in extra money by now. I certainly do not see it anywhere but in the Entitlement Class—their intake has blossomed.
Just think how great it will be when Congress passes the Immigration Bill they didn’t read, worker bees ready to take all the jobs Americans don’t want. You know, like assembly line jobs, construction workers, carpenters, plumbers, tool makers. Don’t forget all those doctors, nurses, pharmacists……Americans hate those jobs too.
Yes, American will be fundamentally transformed into a Utopian Paradise.
Yes, it is incomprehensible. Its supposed to be that way. Saying they will cut the per annum CO2 emissions by 5% does not sound as near as good as “equivalent to one years emissions”.
Obama shares his 7th grade math expertise on national television. This must be why most Dem voters think Obama is so much smarter than they are. lol
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc9Qyzciecw&feature=player_embedded
It will also reduce the population! Yay!
“According to the Brookings Institution,” Mr. Dunn wrote, “a 500-lb. weight reduction of the average car increased annual highway fatalities by 2,200-3,900 and serious injuries by 11,000 and 19,500 per year. USAToday found that 7,700 deaths occurred for every mile per gallon gained in fuel economy standards.”
“How many deaths have resulted?” Mr. Dunn wondered. “Depending on which study you choose, the total ranges from 41,600 to 124,800. To that figure we can add between 352,000 and 624,000 people suffering serious injuries, including being crippled for life. … Fuel standards have become one of the major causes of death and misery in the United States – and one almost completely attributable to human stupidity.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/27/cafe-standards-kill/#ixzz2XFfOFUJK