Monday, May 18, 2009

President Obama Joins America’s CAFE Society

President Obama will roll out new rules for vehicle emissions and mileage tomorrow, setting the first-ever nationwide standard for greenhouse-gas pollution.

Robert Farago at The Truth About Cars editorializes:

"There is no reason to believe that the new [Corporate Average Fuel Economy] CAFE regs will be any more stringently applied than existing laws, or if they are, that manufacturers will be any less likely to game the system to allow them to build the more profitable vehicles that people want to buy."

The existing CAFE regulations have only been met in the breach. And anyway cars are not the biggest contributors of CO2 - the gas the warmists believe causes global warming. So it's really just politics as usual.