04-27-2018, 03:20 PM
(04-27-2018, 07:20 AM)David Horn Wrote:(04-26-2018, 08:47 PM)Ragnarök_62 Wrote:(04-26-2018, 08:39 PM)Warren Dew Wrote: Small cars make no sense when the fuel economy standards let SUVs consume 50% more gas than comparably sized cars, and let larger cars consume more fuel than smaller cars, without penalty.
Fix the fuel economy standards, and we'll fix this idiocy.
I'd prefer an oil import tax set high enough to pay for the US continuance in the Mid East shitshow. Folks who shout USA, USA can then show their support in a real way, People will buy more fuel efficient cars due to permanently high gas prices.
Let's not forget the Scott Pruitt move to kill, or severely alter, corporate fuel efficiency standards. If the fuel efficiency of large trucks isn't a problem for the manufacturers, why try to offset it with money-losing small cars?
This is the most environmentally-unfriendly administration since... I dunno. Coolidge?
Consumption is not prosperity if it means the devouring of resources -- especially if it means depletion of non-replaceable assets or the degradation of the environment.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.