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United States News Title: The Orange Car Guy Some people are single issue voters; if a candidate is in line with them on guns, for instance, theyll support that candidate even if on other topics theyre as far apart as a Chevette and a Corvette. This brings us to Trump. If you care about cars, hes your guy. He may not be a Car Guy, per se but hes the only guy who isnt an obvious enemy of Car Guys. Like his predecessor, for instance. Barack Obama after his anointed successor lost the election had his regulatory apparat fatwa a near-doubling of federal mandatory minimum gas mileage requirements (CAFE) out of pure spite, to punish the filthy deplorables who didnt elect her and who continued to express their lack of interest in high-mileage-uber-alles cars by not buying the ones which were and still are available. Like the Toyota Prius hybrid, for instance. Great gas mileage but not much fun. Cant do much with it other than get good gas mileage. Many people want more than that. So its not that high-mileage vehicles like the Prius arent being offered because the car companies want to deny Americans high-mileage cars in favor of gas guzzlers the lie behind the CAFE reg. The truth is people just arent buying them much. . . because theyre not much fun and cant do very much, besides get good gas mileage. A Prius cant tow . . . anything. It doesnt go off-road or get to 60 in five seconds or even eight. Toyota sells about 1,500 Priuii per month. Ford sells about 60,000 F-150 trucks per month. Not a typo. The purpose of nearly doubling the CAFE fatwa from about 35 MPG to nearly 50 MPG and in just five years time; the fatwa goes into effect in 2025 wasnt to make the industry produce cars that get great gas mileage; the industry already does. It was to regulate out of existence the ones that dont which are the cars most Americans (and all American Car Guys) are very much interested in buying despite their not averaging 50 MPG. Its exactly as if the government spewed a fatwa tripling the cost of cheeseburgers to nudge people toward soy burgers. No outright ban on large cars, V8 SUVs and pick-ups. Too obvious and much too clumsy. People might object such a direct approach. The coercive utopians are far more clever than they used to be. So couch an effective ban in terms of increased gas mileage What could be the harm? Doesnt everyone want increased gas mileage? Nevermind that its not possible absent Mr. Fusion for a big car, V8 SUV or pick-up to average even 30 MPG without being radically downsized, de-powered or otherwise gimped and becoming something very much like . . . a Prius. But just in case, add to the mix a confusing but effective guilt-trip: The fatwa would also lower vehicle exhaust emissions and who could possibly oppose that? Thats how its been presented by the complicit or derelict media. Of course, the emissions are not the ones most people associate with that word i.e., the things which create smog and make it harder to breath. Instead, carbon dioxide a non-reactive gas (and less than 1 percent of the Earths atmosphere, of which the tiniest fraction is emitted by human-made stuff like cars) that was never described as an emission until about five years ago, when it become politically necessary to do so because the emissions of things that do cause smog and respiratory problems and so were actual problems had been almost completely eliminated from vehicle exhaust. This was a problem because it eliminated the justification for the War on Cars (and Driving) which non-Car Guys like Obama and the ugsome squad of pending claimants to the throne very much wanted to ramp up, not dial back down. Cars and driving them, when its us doing it are disliked by people like Obama because they run counter to the control of everything that is their hearts most fervent desire although this is always couched in oily euphemisms about discussions and communities and other such politcial brummagemisms. Its insufferable. Makes one want to as Mencken once put it raise the Jolly Roger and slit throats. You and I arent part of the discussion the terms of which (and so the outcome) have already been decided. The community means those elitists like Obama, who just bought a $14 million dollar compound adjacent to the Kennedy compound how big is this joints carbon footprint? who regard those not in their community as the help, at best. But no outright ban. It would still be perfectly legal to build them even if they didnt average close to 50 MPG, as demanded by the federal fatwa. Just prohibitively expensive because of a tripling of the fines imposed on them for noncompliance. Also fatwad by the Car-Hater who preceded the Orange Man. Which would result in what was wanted a de facto ban on the kinds of cars that Car Guys like by making them too expensive to build, except in small handfuls for very rich people . . . like Barack Obama. Well, the Orange Man is fighting this. He did what none of the other tools on the stage back in 2016 would have: He rescinded the fatwa tripling the fines that would have applied to compliant cars that is, cars that didnt average close to 50 MPG by 2025 thereby kicking the teeth out of the 50 MPG fatwa. He also has been trying to prevent the 50 MPG federal fatwa from remaining in effect outraging the Car Haters, which ought to earn him points with anyone who hates them. He has denied the imminence of apocalyptic climate change. You can still hear the keening this triggered. The latest news is hes using anti-trust laws to go after the four car companies who seem to also hate cars Ford, Honda, VW and BMW who are in league with the Car Haters in California, who want both fatwas to remain in force. These four agreed to voluntarily impose the fatwas upon on themselves even if the federal ones are repealed. Why would companies that build cars voluntarily hairshirt themselves this way? Its not because theyre concerned about either gas mileage or carbon dioxide emissions. Set that nonsense aside. Its for consumption by idiot children, including those well past puberty. Its not hairshirting. Its rent-seeking. These four see their future earnings coming not from selling people cars but selling them rides. Ideally, in a government-mandated automated electric car that will be crushed very four years. See here if you dinna believe me. Straight from the horses mouth. It is far more profitable to rent one car to scores of people every month than it is to collect a single car payment from one person every month. And to throw away and replace cars every four years, like a no-longer-supported smartphone than for people to own cars for years after they paid them off. Do you begin to see? And the Orange Man has been fighting all of this. He may not be a Car Guy, but he is without question the best friend anyone who gives a damn about cars and driving has had in the White House since Calvin Coolidge (a most under-rated president). He deserves the support, therefore, of everyone who still gives a damn about cars and driving and the freedom (such as remains) embodied by both, which is on the knifes edge of being taken away for good. Subscribe to *Cars and Automotive* Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top Page Up Full Thread Page Down Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Deckard (#0)
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They will never be popular outside of big cities until batteries are developed that allow you to drive 400+ miles running the ac or heater,and charging stations are plentiful and you can recharge the car in 15 minutes,maximum.
In the entire history of the world,the only nations that had to build walls to keep their own citizens from leaving were those with leftist governments.
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