Obama's "Mileage & Pollution Plan" = $1,300 Car Tax
Obama’s $1,300 car tax
By Michelle Malkin • May 19, 2009 07:02 AM
Nobody in the White House is going to call the president’s “mileage and pollution” plan what it is.
It’s a $1,300 car tax. On the working class. On the middle class. On everyone who has responded to the government’s consumption-mania incentives — loosened credit, tax deductions — and bought/planned to buy a new car without taking into account these unanticipated costs:
President Barack Obama wants drivers to go farther on a gallon of gas and cause less damage to the environment — and be willing to pick up the tab.
Obama on Tuesday planned to announce the first-ever national emissions limits for cars and trucks, as well as require a 35.5 miles per gallon standard. Consumers should expect to pay an extra $1,300 per vehicle by the time the plan is complete in 2016, officials said…
…Administration officials said consumers were going to pay an extra $700 for mileage standards that had already been approved. The comprehensive Obama plan would add another $600 to the price of a vehicle, a senior administration official said.
The extra miles would come at roughly a 5 percent increase each year. By the time the plan takes full effect, at the end of 2016, new vehicles would cost an extra $1,300.
That official said the cost would be recovered through savings at the pump for consumers who choose a standard 60-month car loan and if gas prices follow government projections.
Let’s all deliver a collective snort in response to yet another self-delusional bureaucrat’s promise that yet another massive government intervention will produce cost savings:
“[T]he cost would be recovered through savings at the pump for consumers who choose a standard 60-month car loan and if gas prices follow government projections.”
All together now: SNORT.
Totally missing from today’s discussion of imposing stricter mileage standards: the potentially lethal impact. For years, free-market analysts and government statisticians have warned of the deadly effect of increasing corporate auto fuel economy standards.
Sam Kazman at CEI explained in 2002: “[T]he evidence on this issue comes from no less a body than the National Academy of Sciences, which issued a report last August finding that CAFE contributes to between 1,300 and 2,600 traffic deaths per year. Given that this program has been in effect for more than two decades, its cumulative toll is staggering. CAFE has this impact on safety because it restricts the production of large cars. Large cars are less fuel efficient than smaller, similarly equipped vehicles, but they are also more crashworthy in practically every type of accident. The first major analysis of this issue came in a 1989 report from researchers at Harvard and the Brookings Institution; since then, a number of other analyses, by government and private researchers, have confirmed the conclusion that CAFE kills.”
Attention, House Republicans: Demand that Obama own up to tradeoffs. Demand that his administration make those costs transparent.
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Wonder what sort of Federal emergency procedures or regulations would be passed if an energy source, a medication, or a consumer product were shown to cause between 1,300 and 2,600 deaths annually?
Just glad we have two newer (circa 2005) Grand Cherokees, and hope we don't have to buy another vehicle for many, many years....
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Yeah, the Natl. Academy of Sciences certainly qualifies as "unknown persons". Much less creddible than a Politician trying to turn Scientist.
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Apparently, the unknown person(s) work for Barry... Did you bother to read the AP article?
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...Administration officials said consumers were going to pay an extra $700, anyway, for mileage standards that had already been approved. The Obama plan adds another $600 to the price of a vehicle, a senior administration official said, bringing the total cost to $1,300 by 2016....
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"It was often pointed out during the election that Obama lacked management experience. While having a president with no experience is bad, it's not nearly as bad as having a president with experience as a community organizer."
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"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm."
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etta - what are your thoughts on obama's iron fist when it comes to what u drive? are you happy that you'll have less choice when purchasing a car in the future?
the only way this will be accomplished if all that is sold are those 2 seater death traps.
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Just because someone isn't known, doesn't make what's said untrue. Regardless of who says it, the truth is still the truth.
Your statement only concerns me because you seem to give credibility to only those who are popular and not to those who are correct. I've seen you make this, or a similar comment many times.
Are you concerned with the truth, or are you concerned with who said what?
Remember, at one time, noone knew who Albert Einstein was, yet his theories and supported (scientific) laws changed how we see the universe today. Good thing some people had an open mind to explore the truth regardless that an unknown, uneducated, anti-social man made the hypothesis.
The converse would be Gallelao, who was an obscure astrologer who in fact was correct that the earth rotated around the sun. He actually had evidence of this, yet he was dismissed as a crackpot because his TRUTH was counter to what the Church believed (as did most people of the day).
So, Etta, keep dismissing ideas and truth because you've never heard of the person. Keep your mind closed to all ideas but what the popular people believe or what people with whom you already agree with state. You'll continue to expand your mind, but still be wrong...
I wonder what they would say about the area I live in. The entire town would shut down and collapse if we didnt have trucks. Personal and company vehicles alike are primarily trucks because otherwise you cant get to half of the locations here. Im pretty sure this entire town would be very upset politically over something like this. Oh wait I think we used to have one Barry supporter but they left when they realized they was all alone. Now I have to write another email to my congress members to enlighten them about the my opinion of this and then ill have all my friends do the same.
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I wonder what they would say about the area I live in. The entire town would shut down and collapse if we didnt have trucks. Personal and company vehicles alike are primarily trucks because otherwise you cant get to half of the locations here. Im pretty sure this entire town would be very upset politically over something like this. Oh wait I think we used to have one Barry supporter but they left when they realized they was all alone. Now I have to write another email to my congress members to enlighten them about the my opinion of this and then ill have all my friends do the same.
They'll probably tell you to eat your Wheaties
Because they are impractical, illogical, liberalized, leftists ... Who only care about themselves and their plight to save the planet from the evils of human beings.
It's a shame they won't take their own advise and leave this planet
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Hard-core environmentalists are the most hypocritical people I know !!
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