Cheers all around as Obama sets fuel efficiency goals for big trucks

[HenryBHough]

The perfect fuel:

Natural gases arising from the fermentation of bullshit.

It's a resource readily available in unlimited quantity from the basement of federal buildings nationwide. Folks only THINK the toilets and gaboons in those places really connect to a sewer.

 

[St.Blues]

Cheers all around as Obama sets fuel efficiency goals for big trucks - CSMonitor.com


First US fuel efficiency rules for heavy-duty trucks, unveiled Tuesday, are embraced by trucking firms, manufacturers, and environmentalists. They'll cut fuel consumption and carbon emissions.

Coming on the heels of the administration's move to require better mileage for cars and light trucks, the new standards for heavy trucks are calculated to save 530 million barrels of oil, cut $50 billion from fuel costs, and slash greenhouse gas emissions by about 270 million tons over the lifetimes of trucks built from 2014 to 2018.

The standards call for commercial trucks to reduce by up to 20 percent fuel consumption and pollution emissions, beginning with 2014 models. Heavy-duty pickups and vans, a separate class of vehicles, will need to curb fuel use and emissions to achieve up to a 15 percent reduction by 2018. So-called "vocational vehicles," such as garbage trucks or fire engines, will have to cut emissions and fuel use by about 10 percent by 2018.

The nation is dieing from financial crisis and he's jerking off the truck manufacturers.
What a fucking idiot... and the count down continues.

Blues

 

[gslack]

The perfect fuel:

Natural gases arising from the fermentation of bullshit.

It's a resource readily available in unlimited quantity from the basement of federal buildings nationwide. Folks only THINK the toilets and gaboons in those places really connect to a sewer.

Remember methane causes Global Warming...

 

[ScienceRocks]

Cheers all around as Obama sets fuel efficiency goals for big trucks - CSMonitor.com


First US fuel efficiency rules for heavy-duty trucks, unveiled Tuesday, are embraced by trucking firms, manufacturers, and environmentalists. They'll cut fuel consumption and carbon emissions.

Coming on the heels of the administration's move to require better mileage for cars and light trucks, the new standards for heavy trucks are calculated to save 530 million barrels of oil, cut $50 billion from fuel costs, and slash greenhouse gas emissions by about 270 million tons over the lifetimes of trucks built from 2014 to 2018.

The standards call for commercial trucks to reduce by up to 20 percent fuel consumption and pollution emissions, beginning with 2014 models. Heavy-duty pickups and vans, a separate class of vehicles, will need to curb fuel use and emissions to achieve up to a 15 percent reduction by 2018. So-called "vocational vehicles," such as garbage trucks or fire engines, will have to cut emissions and fuel use by about 10 percent by 2018.

The nation is dieing from financial crisis and he's jerking off the truck manufacturers.
What a fucking idiot... and the count down continues.

Blues

He is killing this nation as zog wishes for it. They control the banks and wish to see America die.

 

[Old Rocks]

How do the former owners of exploding Pintos feel about your "empirical evidence"?

they were stupid enough to buy a ford so who cares?

And Ford was stupid enough to follow the edicts from the Emperor.

If it's so easy for authoritarians to demand and get such things by fiat, why not just demand that industry unlock the question of electro-gravitics, under penalty of death for failure?

Damn, how stupid these 'Conservatives' are. What was the last year that Ford produced Pintos? And how old was President Obama at that time?

 

[Old Rocks]

And Ford was stupid enough to follow the edicts from the Emperor.

If it's so easy for authoritarians to demand and get such things by fiat, why not just demand that industry unlock the question of electro-gravitics, under penalty of death for failure?

How did a design error by ford relate to better fuel efficiency requirements?

ford also made flipomatic SUV's, no doubt cuased by fuel efficiency requirements?

The design error was part and parcel to Ford being forced to build shitboxes like the Pinto, rather than cars that people wanted like the Galaxy 500.

All these decrees from on high are going to do is force people to get killed, in favor of their twisted social engineering schemes.

God, stupidity has no limits. The design error was not an error. The lack of a cover over the gas tank of the Pinto was known to be a danger in event of being hit from the rear. The bean counters at Ford thought that the resultant lawsuits for wrongful deaths would be less than the savings of about $10 per vehicle to leave the tank uncovered. It was a case of corperate greed, not government regulation. In fact, there should have been someone from the government telling Ford that you cannot build such a dangerous vehicle.

 

[Old Rocks]

Of course Obamasocialistfuck set fuel efficiency standards. His goal is to rape the capitalists he cannot butt-fuck and control as puppets.

If I was a Marxist like he is I would do exactly what hes doing - destroy the capitalist model from the bottom up - not from the top down.

Do people believe attacking the capitalist model from the top down (much like the socialist Revolutionaries in history have done) is the right course of action?

Hell no - you destroy the model through progressive measures such as regulations like the aforementioned in the OP's post.

All this environmental bullshit is code for authoritarian.

What an idiot you continue to be. Guess you like the thought of rivers on fire in the middle of American cities. Without environmental laws, our rivers would be large sewers, and the air would be unbreathable. It took laws to get the corperations to clean up their acts, and will continue to take laws to keep them from ruining the environment.

 

[Old Rocks]

Fuel efficiency should be controlled by the market place. Higher fuel prices=higher food prices. Sad that more people are going to be forced to choose between pills and food because of this. Makes me sick!

Mathew, no matter what, higher fuel prices are the future. A finite amount of oil that is inexpensive, and an increasing demand. The only way to keep the demand from skyrocketing the price of fuel is to create very much more efficient vehicles of all sizes.

Resources such as tar sands are many times more expensive to extract than the oil that we have traditionally drilled for. More costly in terms of money and environment.

Had we had wise government, we would have had stringent fuel efficiency standards set in the 90s.

 

[Oddball]

they were stupid enough to buy a ford so who cares?

And Ford was stupid enough to follow the edicts from the Emperor.

If it's so easy for authoritarians to demand and get such things by fiat, why not just demand that industry unlock the question of electro-gravitics, under penalty of death for failure?

Damn, how stupid these 'Conservatives' are. What was the last year that Ford produced Pintos? And how old was President Obama at that time?

Look who's talking about stupid!

The Pinto was basically forced onto the market by idiotic CAFE edicts, imposed upon the marketplace by people who don't know jack shit about building automobiles....The same mistake that is being made in the here and now.

Shut your do-gooder face and let people buy the kinds of cars they want to and the Pinto is probably never produced....Economist types refer to mechanical abortions like the Pinto as "negative externalities"...Of course, we're all supposed to stand in awe of your reputed good intentions and overlook the failures brought about by your hubris.

Fool.

 

[konradv]

And Ford was stupid enough to follow the edicts from the Emperor.

If it's so easy for authoritarians to demand and get such things by fiat, why not just demand that industry unlock the question of electro-gravitics, under penalty of death for failure?

Damn, how stupid these 'Conservatives' are. What was the last year that Ford produced Pintos? And how old was President Obama at that time?

Look who's talking about stupid!

The Pinto was basically forced onto the market by idiotic CAFE edicts, imposed upon the marketplace by people who don't know jack shit about building automobiles....The same mistake that is being made in the here and now.

Shut your do-gooder face and let people buy the kinds of cars they want to and the Pinto is probably never produced....Economist types refer to mechanical abortions like the Pinto as "negative externalities"...Of course, we're all supposed to stand in awe of your reputed good intentions and overlook the failures brought about by your hubris.

Fool.

You're the fool!!! The Pinto came out in 1971 and CAFE standards didn't start until 1975.

 

[BoycottTheday]

Ya butt who here actually owned one? There she is hiding behind my first street legal motorcycle.

Any wonder why i like to ride more than drive?

 

[Oddball]

Damn, how stupid these 'Conservatives' are. What was the last year that Ford produced Pintos? And how old was President Obama at that time?

Look who's talking about stupid!

The Pinto was basically forced onto the market by idiotic CAFE edicts, imposed upon the marketplace by people who don't know jack shit about building automobiles....The same mistake that is being made in the here and now.

Shut your do-gooder face and let people buy the kinds of cars they want to and the Pinto is probably never produced....Economist types refer to mechanical abortions like the Pinto as "negative externalities"...Of course, we're all supposed to stand in awe of your reputed good intentions and overlook the failures brought about by your hubris.

Fool.

You're the fool!!! The Pinto came out in 1971 and CAFE standards didn't start until 1975.

OK...Bad example.

CAFE, however, gave us underpowered, thrown-together, crumbling shitboxes like the K-car, Mustang II, and Chevette...All of which were death traps in their own right.

But as long as we "save" a few paltry gallons of gasoline (for whom I have no idea) it's all good to go around dictating to automakers what kind of cars to build, huh?

 

[Mr.Nick]

Of course Obamasocialistfuck set fuel efficiency standards. His goal is to rape the capitalists he cannot butt-fuck and control as puppets.

If I was a Marxist like he is I would do exactly what hes doing - destroy the capitalist model from the bottom up - not from the top down.

Do people believe attacking the capitalist model from the top down (much like the socialist Revolutionaries in history have done) is the right course of action?

Hell no - you destroy the model through progressive measures such as regulations like the aforementioned in the OP's post.

All this environmental bullshit is code for authoritarian.

What an idiot you continue to be. Guess you like the thought of rivers on fire in the middle of American cities. Without environmental laws, our rivers would be large sewers, and the air would be unbreathable. It took laws to get the corperations to clean up their acts, and will continue to take laws to keep them from ruining the environment.

You call me an idiot, yet you don't even know how to spell "corporations."

Furthermore, do you have any evidence to back any of your claims?