The lamestream media told you:
Tom Krisher, writing for the AP reports: “Obama’s Rules Will Make Small Efficient Cars the Norm”
“Higher mileage and emissions standards set by the Obama administration on Tuesday, which begin to take effect in 2012 and are to be achieved by 2016, will transform the American car and truck fleet. http://tinyurl.com/obrz3l
“Nearly everybody will drive smaller cars, and more of them will run on electricity.”
The Uninvited Ombudsman notes however that:
Tom Krisher of the Associated Press, writing with no independent thought apparent in his “report” of a government edict, effectively sanctified another government power grab over independent business in the United States. He carefully detailed the government proclamation, abandoning the skepticism that is critical to a reporter’s code of ethics.
Missing is the fact that, with no apparent constitutional authority, the current president is dictating manufacturing standards to an entire industry. The media covered the government proclamation unchallenged.
The president cannot legitimately decree what sort of cars Americans can buy, but this has had little effect on the current administration or its complicit “news” media admirers. The media denies such claims.
“Smaller cars, lighter cars, cars with less impact resistance, this equates directly to more dead Americans, but the Obama administration could care less,” says one observer who was not quoted by the press. Radio talk-show hosts have made the point repeatedly, though lamestream reports have failed to make the point at all.
“Green” advocates are reportedly thrilled at the news, effortlessly trading human lives for protection of something called “the environment,” a fantastical representation of the place where all of us live, or die, in small, cheap, lightweight cars, designed to comply with the undocumented president’s unconstitutional wishes.
Congress fell in line to support the president’s edict and could not be reached for comment.
More cars will also be required to run on electricity, under the new government management plan. Surprisingly, the source of that much electricity was not discussed, even though the existing power grid runs near maximum, and browns out during periods of highest demand in winters and summers. It is estimated that cars need considerably more power than rooms with lightbulbs.
Internet-inventor Al Gore, speaking at a congressional hearing televised by C-SPAN, said electric cars could run on the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline. Gasoline, its cost, electrical equivalency, driving habits and various car designs are not directly related. Dollars per mile, which would provide a proper comparison, was not made or questioned.
No new power plants are planned. Mr. Obama has ruled out building the grid’s mainstay coal-fired plants and neighborhoods are reluctant for any kind of plants in their neighborhoods. Some new windmill and sunshine electric generators are being installed however.
If the nation’s fleet is significantly converted to electricity, and insufficient power exists to run the fleet, the only option would be to ration what’s available. Fortunately, this can be achieved easily using “smart meters” currently being installed or retrofitted into homes nationwide. Smart meters can be turned on and off from a central location, controlling the amount of power a homeowner can consume. Constant real-time monitoring and threshold settings can automatically solve the problem of overconsumption. Homeowners would have freedom to choose between charging up their cars, cooking or turning on lights, for example.
An alternative to cutoffs would be steep price hikes to limit usage, applied as people exceed their mandated ration of electrons. These could be easily added to monthly bills, and electricity would continue to flow as long as the surcharges are paid promptly.
In other news, the world seems to have forgotten Mr. Obama’s recent “green” ban on incandescent light bulbs. These have led the world out of abject darkness and had been universally praised previously, but will be eliminated in favor of screwy-shaped bulbs made solely in Communist China. The screwy bulbs, filled with lethal mercury gas, will be required by law in 2012, coincidentally the year Mr. Obama has declared for screwy lightweight less safe cars. A connection between the two acts was unclear at press time. The Communist Chinese politburo was reportedly pleased by the screwy lightbulb law. Hoarding of incandescent bulbs has not been reported.
The lethality of the poison gas in the bulbs has been questioned, since the amount is tiny, it dissipates rapidly upon breakage, and even if you snorted the entire bulb the amount would be too small to cause measurable harm. The government has released a complex technical report on how to dispose of the bulbs and conduct household evacuations if one should break. Compliance with the report is unknown but suspected to be low.
