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Obama Insists Cars Improve Fuel Efficiency by 40%

Class 8 trucks are commercial, and their fleets or individual owners demand fuel economy, since that effects their bottom line (what they don't spend on fuel is profit!). Individual owners also like sleeper tractors, because what they don't spend on hotel rooms is profit (although the same is not necessarily true for fleet drivers, since the fleet gets the profit vs. the driver employee).


On Jan 27 10:56 AM Mike Inmich wrote:

> Will the advocates of CAFE and the California plan please answer
> the question: why not us ea gas tax like Europe, Japan, and many
> other questions have done for decades?
>
> I fear the answer is that this direct tax will make the voters unhappy.
> Using the big bad auto companies, who hide 100 mpg carburetors under
> their desks, to collect taxes if much mor epolitically expedient.
>
>
> Note that if the goal is reduction of fossile fuel a gas tax will
> also:
> reduce length of trips, affect existing cars as well as new ones,
> increase car-poolng, affect other uses of fossile fuel like home
> heat, and millions of other market driven solutions. With the modifed
> price of fossile fuel all of this will be achieved with market /
> pricing efficiency.
>
> CAFE has the affect of disproportionate impact on US based auto companies
> who make commercial pickup trucks. (why doesn't Mack truck have to
> meet CAFE?). The California law has an exception for small companies,
> all of which are foreign, which is no surprise since this crowd hates
> all things American, except Obama, for now.
>
> Gas tax yes. CAFE no!

Offer Ford a Bridge Loan to Buy GM Assets

Ford aquiring GM or Chrysler would only take them down.
Both Ford and GM are attemtping to get back to their core, by shedding Volvo, Saab, and Saturn.
P.S. GM aquiring Chrysler would also likely take them down faster. They need to solve their own issues first, and fast!