January 27, 2009, - 12:31 pm
Obama & the Hypocritinator Take New Steps to Kill Auto Industry
By Debbie Schlussel
As many have noted, the biggest obstacle to the success of the American auto industry is government regulations that make it virtually impossible to make a good, affordable car.
Now, Barack Hussein Obama is set to take another step to re-regulate the car industry out of existence. Under the Clean Air Act, only the EPA administrator can grant permission for new tailpipe emission standards. But Obama will order the EPA to allow California and 13 other states the right to set their own tougher tailpipe emissions standards.
Since a car company cannot afford to tailor cars to different emissions standards of each state, automakers must tailor their cars to the extreme emissions standards of the toughest state. In this case, it’s California. Faux-Republican/authentic commie Arnold Schwarzenegger have been pushing Obama to do this. He wants to impose a thirty percent reduction in tailpipe emissions by 2016. This is going to cost automakers billions. You know–the billions they don’t have. And it will help ease them into extinction.
All the while, Gov. Schwarzenegger won’t terminate his contributions to polluting the environment. He hasn’t given up his Hummer (he is the one who single-handedly created the consumer demand to own one, after he got the first from the U.S. military). And he continues to fly back and forth, daily, from his Southern California home to Sacramento.
Yup, it’s that new action hero: the Hypocritinator. He may be back. But with his new emissions standards and the help of Obama, America’s auto industry may not be able to say, “I’ll be back.”
I warned idiotic, prominent, star-struck conservatives who fawned over Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was considering whether or not to run for Governor. I said he’d be a disaster. But they didn’t listen.
Sadly, I was right. Thank these conservative cheerleaders–including and especially the Wall Street Journal’s John Fund and Peggy Noonan, both of whom were having print orgies over this guy–who helped push this auto-industry killer onto the political scene, when he should have been making Terminator 19.
Way to go guys. More job losses are just what America needs right now.
I agree that the proposed emissions standards are ridiculous, and will hurt all of us, consumers, companies, and, of course, hurt us as taxpayers. They are an example of junk science (global warming) gone wild. Shades of the Piltdown Man!
They will also hurt the auto industry, unnecessarily, and this is wrong. However, there are other reasons why the domestic auto industry is hurting. Too many people have had bad experiences with domestic cars. I had a Vega which fell to pieces after 80,000 miles, and then a Citation that was leaking in three places after 30,000 miles. It lasted 90,000 miles. Since then I have purchased Honda Civics that have lasted 200,000 miles or more. The ability to make cars that don’t need constant repairs, and that will last a long time is crucial to the success of the American car industry, even though I agree that the emissions standards are wrong, and that the labor unions are getting away with way too much.
c f on January 27, 2009 at 12:51 pm