2016 fuel standards
 

http://jalopnik.com/5261242/no-autom...onomy-standard


So I came across these and found it hilarious how people are bitching and freaking out over these proposed bill.

Not only are most companies close to already meeting the standards, but it's taken as an average across all their cars, and it's for 2016, 7 years away.


Amazing how people overreact over nothing nowadays and scream bloody murder. :lol:

wow people are just dumb....and its just a proposed bill...that doesnt mean anything yet

It maybe just a proposed bill but it is going to pass in one form or the other. I agree though, people are over reacting like it was the 70s all over again. Chances are, it will mean getting rid of some of the bigger less fuel efficient cars and trucks but the technology is there now.

there is already a thread...

Feel free to link, I didn't find one

They want to start it at 2012 instead of 2016.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/05/18/auto...omy_standards/

I found some interesting info over on Autoblog Green. It's the whackjob enivronmentalist car enthusiast news site but they still have interesting stuff from time to time. Even they have stated that:

"Unfortunately, even if all the cars on the planet were completely eliminated from the roads, less than 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, and far less than that of other pollutants, would be affected. "

What that tells me is that if you want to decrease pollution and oil usage, why not look to the other 80% of the problem rather than focus all of your energy on 20% of it in the U.S. Then we find this:

"Shipping is responsible for 3.5% to 4% of all climate change emissions"

Conversely, "Shipping is responsible for 18-30% of all the world's nitrogen oxide (NOx)".

How about buying products that are MADE here! That way they don't get sent on those dirty ships aka the Prius! They were going to build a manufacturing plant for it in Mississippi but didn't so all of them are made in Japan or China. Just remember that "American Made" and American Owned" are not the same thing anymore.

I am fully aware that our beloved rotaries are made in Japan but to me environmentalists have their priorities screwed up. If 15 container ships emit as much as every car in the world combined, wouldn't it seem to make more sense to buy an American built car instead of a Prius?

Just some food for thought.

There is one party rule in this country. :icon_no2: If the leaders of that party want something passed, it will be.