Obama orders new auto fuel standards

[william the wie]

Wrong. If you check with the X foundation or DARPA there is a 40 to 1 advantage to simply offering prize money for meeting certain criteria rather than just research grants.

 

[idb]

Wrong. If you check with the X foundation or DARPA there is a 40 to 1 advantage to simply offering prize money for meeting certain criteria rather than just research grants.

Maybe, but this isn't the same thing.
This won't be a competition - it'll be a legal requirement to be met by all manufacturers (I assume).

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Why is magic required?

Here's how you achieve it...are you ready?
You get a bunch of clever people with the right resources on the job to figure it out.

As an aside, I think the doubling of mileage in a decade is the average over the passenger vehicle fleet, not heavy vehicles.
I don't think the heavy vehicle policy has been announced yet.

As the central part of this discussion, Obama wants the EPA to mandate a doubling of gas mileage for trucks by 2025. I have video to prove it, and it comes from a place that is not Fox News.

Obama vows to double gas mileage by 2025 - Videos - CBS News

You can blather all day long about it not requiring magic, and yo will still not answer the question.

Stop being a hack, how can the government do something in 10 years that decades of research by people that would make trillions of dollars if it were possible could not?

By funding people that can do it.
It's amazing what funding can do if it isn't restrained or complicated by commercial imperatives.

Excuse me, oh he of infinite belief in the magic of government, what the fuck makes you think that there wasn't any money in it before?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Wrong. If you check with the X foundation or DARPA there is a 40 to 1 advantage to simply offering prize money for meeting certain criteria rather than just research grants.

Maybe, but this isn't the same thing.
This won't be a competition - it'll be a legal requirement to be met by all manufacturers (I assume).

It is government, it is magic, so it will work.

 

[idb]

Wrong. If you check with the X foundation or DARPA there is a 40 to 1 advantage to simply offering prize money for meeting certain criteria rather than just research grants.

Maybe, but this isn't the same thing.
This won't be a competition - it'll be a legal requirement to be met by all manufacturers (I assume).

It is government, it is magic, so it will work.

Yay!!!

 

[Politico]

Give it a break sheeple. Obammy didn't do anything that any politician hasn't done. He ordered a change with a due date set a decade after he leaves office. Now he can say he did something. And when it doesn't happen he can say oh well it's not my fault they didn't follow through.

 

[mal]

There's a difference between good and bad policy, and illegal policy.

Here, I don't speak the legalese to know if the EPA, which is authorized by congress and congress regulates commerce, makes this a legal move by the President.........

But I know that fuel standards certainly fall under the commerce clause. That's common sense - and to add a further "a-duh" to that would be that fuel prices are not even dictated by the open market to begin with but manipulated by world governments and their affairs with one another(as well as our own government's willingness to drill at home).

Who makes more money on a Gallon of Gas... Exxon... Or the Government?

And don't you mean unwillingness to drill at Home?...

There's a reason why we don't use our Reserves.



peace...

 

[Iceweasel]

Give it a break sheeple. Obammy didn't do anything that any politician hasn't done. He ordered a change with a due date set a decade after he leaves office. Now he can say he did something. And when it doesn't happen he can say oh well it's not my fault they didn't follow through.

Give us a break and research CAFE standards then get back to us.

 

[Politico]

Don't need to. Have a copy right here.