You mean similar to Al Gore preaching about climate change and global warming and living in a 25k square foot mansion?

Hypocrits!

 

 

Yes, the government can help promote new vehicle technology in various ways, and perhaps that can speed up the development of good products.

My beef is they are using a shove rather than a nudge, and effectively elminating the option of cheaper, older technology.

The cost of new vehicles is extremely high. Cut $5k off that, and you have a whole bunch of folks that would be in the market for a nice new made in the USA car, even if it had a motor that was around 10 years ago and got 3 mpg worse than the latest greatest option.

 

The 2015 F-150 is already designed. It is what it is. If you don't want this man, Barack Hussein Obama doing any more damage and designing the 2020 and 2025 F-150, then get out the vote. Romney opposes cafe standards and will repeal them.





If elected president, presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney said he would quickly sell off the government’s 26-percent share in General Motors, take a long hard look at pending fuel efficiency mandates, and presumably electric vehicle subsidies as well.
http://www.hybridcars.com/news/mitt-...les-46892.html

Romney also said CAFE is not likely such a good idea, represents intrusion into the free market by the Obama-led government and he’d try to find “a better way of encouraging fuel economy” rather than solely relying on efficiency mandates.

"The best approach is to try and build vehicles that people want, rather than having the government telling the companies what they must make," he said to the Detroit News.

"I would work with the manufacturers to find ways to encourage fuel economy on the part of the consumer. But trying to have the manufacturer push the product on the consumer — that the consumer doesn't want — is not the right approach."