Bye Bye To The American V-8...

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This stuff is starting to really piss me off.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30810514

[ORIGLS6]

Then quit watching BSNBC.

[al8apex]

the circus has several of their clowns ruining the show

bring on the elephants or the tigers, I am sick of the clowns in that 3 ring circus ...

[70 copo]

Not political.... multiple phases in how we got to this point the most recent being to re-regulate the domestic car companies nearly to the point where the brand that they sell (V-8 power) is demonized to where some people are afraid to be seen buying a truck or an SUV.

"All to save the planet" Fact is I have frost on my roof this morning and we are a week from JUNE....

My Point being is that If I have the money to buy a V-8 and a manufacturer is willing to build it - I should be able to buy it.

We already did this two-step in the mid 1970's, and early 80's. Wow I recall just how great that 165HP 350 was in the Vette and Camaro in 1975 and 1976.....

Cliff ahead.... brace for impact.

Gonna be great for future collector car values... that is the only upside I see.

[70 copo]

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Then quit watching BSNBC.

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Here is the story "fair and Balanced"

Looks like everybody is on board

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...age-standards/

2011 could be the new "1970" for muscle cars....

[ORIGLS6]

"President Obama plans to propose the first-ever national emission limits for cars and trucks as well as average mileage requirements of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016 -- all costing consumers an extra $1,300 per vehicle. "

More "CHANGE".

[beater68427]

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"President Obama plans to propose the first-ever national emission limits for cars and trucks as well as average mileage requirements of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016 -- all costing consumers an extra $1,300 per vehicle. "

More "CHANGE".

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What a joke, I think he has forgotten about the road tax on fuel so if he could ever get this to pass he would realize a great shortage of funds, well I guess not he would just raise the tax on it, oh I forgot he is not going to raise any taxes.... second for a look on pollution why do they not increase emissions for maufacturing, my business sits in the middle of refineries, I have Chevron Sinclair Phillips and some independents, they do burn off's every night have for 30 years i'm aware of, its done at night to keep complaints down, you should see it huge black clouds coming out of the stacks for hours, I wonder how thats effecting versus normal day to day traffic

[StealthBird]

You see, if you think like a Liberal, or a global warming alarmist, having frost on your lawn in May is due to global warming. Record high temp in January? Global warming. Record low temp in January? Global warming. Too many tornadoes? Global warming. No tornadoes? Global warming. Ice caps melting? Global warming. Ice caps getting thicker? Global warming. Hurricane Katrina? Global warming. No hurricanes the following year? Global warming.

This new proclamation from King Barack is disturbing, because states are hurting for funding right now, and you know what's next. They will begin to target older cars to get them off the road, and all states will adopt California emmissions standards in order to get people go out and buy the new clean, fuel efficient cars.

[John Brown]

I sure am glad my pos full size 85 Oldsmobile gets 25 <u>real</u> miles per gallon.

If it ever dies, I'm gonna buy another one.

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Here is a guy that gets it....

Michael LaFaive, director of fiscal policy at the Michigan Mackinac Center for Public Policy stated just today:

"The law of unintended consequences is at work always and everywhere, The headline should read 'U.S. to boost the attractiveness of used cars by 2016'."

He went on to state that until the old fleet of vehicles flat-out sputters and dies, consumers could be squeezing every last mile out of their used cars, in turn holding sales of new, fuel-efficient cars to a low level.