Administration may drop big-vehicle mileage revision,

[elehhhhna]

Abandoning all pretense of REAL fuel efficiency initiatives...

Aug. 15, 2005, 11:29PM

Administration may drop big-vehicle mileage revision
By DANNY HAKIM
New York Times

DETROIT - The Bush administration is expected to abandon a plan to extend fuel economy regulations to include Hummers and other jumbo sport utility vehicles, auto industry and other officials say.


The proposal was among a number of potential strategies outlined by the administration in 2003 to overhaul mileage requirements for light trucks, meaning sport utility vehicles, pickups and minivans.

The impact of the tougher requirements, however, would be borne almost solely by the increasingly troubled domestic auto industry, a concern for the administration.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3311713

[kysrsoze]

1. Of course this is going to be their downfall anyway

Gotta build more trucks, even if people don't want them. GM will be in serious trouble within a year or two.

[SoCalDem]

3. GM is ALREADY in big trouble..

Before long we will all be driving Chinese imports anyway:(

[tanyev]

2. Fine. Whatever.

If gas prices stay where they are, people will just stop buying the damn things.

[elehhhhna]

7. Resale/trade-in value on these behemoths is dropping like GW on a bike...

[izzie]

4. Govt. by polls. And Bush tells us he does not do this.

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[Stuckinthebush]

5. Morons

People who have the damn things are already hurting due to the gas prices. I guess the Bushies are thinking that they are doing potential SUV owners a favor, but in fact, they are hurting the manufacturers. Manufacturers will be unable to suppress their natural inclination to not make changes because that would cost money. In the end, they will see sales continue to dwindle because not even the biggest numb-brained Bush supporter wants to pay $60, $70 or $80 for a tank of gas.

[Coastie for Truth]

6. The Macomb ounty (MI) "Reagan Democrats" Argument

The argument goes like this - if we in any way seek to either

1) Limit SUV sales, or
2) Increase SUV fuel economy, or
3) Raise CAFE (corporate average fuel economy)

the SUV buyers will abandon Detroit and buy imported SUVs.

The fallacies:

1) Detroit makes the biggest, most gas guzzling SUVs,
2) Detroit makes, roughly, the same size-weight-mileage range of SUVs as foreign manufacturers.
3) So, what are they going to buy?????

Who and what are we talking about here?

1) Macomb County "Reagan Democrats"
2) Who fled Detroit after the first school buses began to roll,
3) With the mind set of their brothers who

Once again - the "Macomb County Reagan Democrats" and API (American Petroleum Institute) and NAAMA (North American Automobile Manufacturers Association) win.

The devil with them!

[Blue_Tires]

8. Detroit is about to fall off the cliff

which personally saddens me, because I've long been a fan and supporter of American-made performance cars, and the union workers that build them...as long as they close their eyes and cover their ears, the situation will get a lot worse before it gets better

[Javaman]

9. So let me get this straight before my head explodes...

gas prices go up, as a result so does inflation, yet, the pencil necks state that because of falling auto prices, it blunted the full effect of inflation.

GM is struggling to clear their lots of bloated SUV's so they drop the prices...errr, correct me if I'm wrong, maybe if FUCKING GM INCREASED THE GAS MILEAGE OR ACTUALLY PUT OUT A CAR THAT GETS MORE THAN 13 MILES TO THE GALLON, THEY WOULD SELL MORE FUCKING CARS!!!

Whew! sorry, I just am on the verge of headus explodus.

On second thought, perhaps they are thinking, (this requires the thought process of a 3 year old) if the SUV's are tanking in sales, why then do we need to raise their minimum mileage requirements?

Ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Booooooom!!!! Damn it, there goes my head. I hate when that happens.

colossal COLOSSAL FAILURE* ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!