



I. Obama Crows Over Fuel Economy Victories

He remarked:









II. More Regulation Ahead?



Super Duty rear
President Obama was new fuel economy targets for heavy duty trucks.
[Image Source: Jason Mick/DailyTech]






Coal power station

Source: White House on YouTube

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RE: He is right....
By Reclaimer77 on 6/27/2013 2:06:39 AM , Rating: 4
You can't make a pickup truck that gets 25 mpg in the city and 35 mpg on the highway.

Liberal retort: good, then trucks can finally go away. I don't need one, so nobody does!

RE: He is right....
By BRB29 on 6/27/2013 8:36:49 AM , Rating: 1
No I think it goes something like this.

Liberals: Most people don't need one so we shouldn't have it.

Conservatives: I can buy and use whatever I want.

This stereotyping is retarded and entirely inaccurate. For example, I know plenty of black people who bought low mileage big vehicles that trees seems to die as they pass it. In fact, every black person I know wants to be more like republicans but always vote democrats. The truth is it's not just black people, everyone wants to be rich and own businesses. The vast majority won't make it there so they'll vote for what gives them the most benefits. Being poor or just average, the democratic party will give you more benefits and therefore win your vote.

If you don't remember history, the democratic party was the fiscally responsible one. However, that wasn't popular back then so they aimed to get more votes by being friendly with poor people. They did just that and thus the 2 parties' platforms did a switch. This started in the 1950s.

RE: He is right....
By AlphaVirus on 6/27/2013 11:51:11 AM , Rating: 3

This paragraph makes me cringe.

RE: He is right....
By Reclaimer77 on 6/27/2013 2:15:27 PM , Rating: 3
Yeah his entire post was a bit w-t-f moment for me as well.

He accuses me of using a "stereotype", and immediately stereotypes "black people". I mean I'm not saying he's racist, I hate people who make blanket accusations, but did he really need to go there to make his point?

RE: He is right....
By ClownPuncher on 6/27/2013 2:21:47 PM , Rating: 2
They keep the demand for watermelon high, yet the prices remain low.

Wait, what the hell is anyone doing even responding to that guy?

RE: He is right....
By freedom4556 on 6/27/2013 3:30:52 PM , Rating: 2
Since we're blowing stereotypes out our ass anyway...

I went to my local (rural Ark.) Dodge dealership to test drive a V8 Challenger about 6 months ago (couldn't afford one, but wanted to try it out anyway), and you know what I discovered? He didn't have one. He had six V6 Challengers and serval V8 Chargers, but by and large the lot was Ram trucks. Probably 50-75 trucks and maybe less than 20 cars. Same story at the Chevy dealer next door. Round here it's not just the black people in the Escalades with 20" chromes, but everybody.

RE: He is right....
By Spuke on 6/27/2013 5:11:48 PM , Rating: 2
LMAO!!! I'm thinking BRB's got two persons living within himself. A black rapper and an Asian dude.

RE: He is right....
By spamreader1 on 6/28/2013 8:04:28 AM , Rating: 3
It must be hard trying to be a liberal conservative.

If I'm not mistaken the Original Democrat party was huge on taking from others and giving to the Union, especially farmers (the poor) who were recognized as the Unions backbone. But this was through the idea of growth through expansion, not unlike the same time period expansions of the European empires of the time. The early history of the party advocated Manifest Destiny and opposed centralized banking, which was allowing currency to have wildly different values between transactions with little common basis in (at the time) gold or silver standard.

I can't say that either party have ever been a truly fiscally responsible one. The early Republican party was keen on higher tariffs, and running a larger national debt, as well as government aid to expanding economic infrastructure, both agriculturally and industrially.

One of the few things that hasn't changed much is that the Republican party is still viewed as a more or less pietistic Christian Party, where the Democratic Party seems to be less and less concerned with religious piety at all.

And to be fair the current Conservative view might be more of, if I can afford it, I should be able to buy and use whatever I desire. If I can't afford it, I'm not that worried about it anyway, or I can wait until I can afford it.

Where a slight adjustment to the current Liberal view might be if I can't afford it, and feel I'm entitled to it, I should regulate it and disperse it so that everyone can enjoy the regulated product now, even if it's not quite what everyone else wants.

