Oh my gosh Obama is brilliant. Are we sure he wasn't an engineer or a physicist, how did we miss not making these trucks fuel efficient? Now I understand why the liberals worship this messiah. I'm voting for this Genius in 2012.
Why Lord was this man holding back on us for so long?
I'll bet he can heal the sick and bring back the dead.
And lets not forget that his borrow and spend has brought us out of a near depression despite the fact that it never has worked in the history of stupidity, but Barrack Hussein Obama has shown the world that we can debt ourselves out of.....debt.
Should Large Vehicles Like Trucks and Semis Improve on Fuel Efficiency?
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2011/08/09 20:33:00
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SUVs and minivans are one thing, but now we're talking semis.
In an attempt to combine fuel efficiency, clean energy, and cost-effective business strategies into one simple policy, President Obama has announced he will be pushing for stricter regulations on fuel consumption by large vehicles, such as fire trucks and semis.
The new policy will require the producers of large gas-powered trucks, including heavy-duty public vehicles like garbage trucks and fire trucks, to reduce fuel requirements by 9 to 15 percent, depending on what kind of fuel the vehicles use, and producers of big rigs and semis to reduce requirements by 23 percent.
At this stage, the policy will reportedly only affect vehicles made for distribution in 2014 though 2018.
It might sound like nothing but an environmental push, but Obama claims the new fuel standards could save companies across the nation up to $50 billion in fuel costs, as well as cutting green house gas emissions by 270 million metric tons, Green Biz reports.
Obama noted in his announcement regarding the policy, "While we were working to improve the efficiency of cars and light-duty trucks, something interesting happened. We started getting letters asking that we do the same for medium- and heavy-duty trucks. They were from the people who build, buy and drive these trucks."
Oil companies will be less enthused.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's website explains, "Overall, EPA and NHTSA estimate that the HD National Program will cost the affected industry about $8 billion, while saving vehicle owners fuel costs of about $50 billion over the lifetimes of model year 2014-2018 vehicles, discounted at three percent."
In an attempt to combine fuel efficiency, clean energy, and cost-effective business strategies into one simple policy, President Obama has announced he will be pushing for stricter regulations on fuel consumption by large vehicles, such as fire trucks and semis.
The new policy will require the producers of large gas-powered trucks, including heavy-duty public vehicles like garbage trucks and fire trucks, to reduce fuel requirements by 9 to 15 percent, depending on what kind of fuel the vehicles use, and producers of big rigs and semis to reduce requirements by 23 percent.
At this stage, the policy will reportedly only affect vehicles made for distribution in 2014 though 2018.
It might sound like nothing but an environmental push, but Obama claims the new fuel standards could save companies across the nation up to $50 billion in fuel costs, as well as cutting green house gas emissions by 270 million metric tons, Green Biz reports.
Obama noted in his announcement regarding the policy, "While we were working to improve the efficiency of cars and light-duty trucks, something interesting happened. We started getting letters asking that we do the same for medium- and heavy-duty trucks. They were from the people who build, buy and drive these trucks."
Oil companies will be less enthused.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's website explains, "Overall, EPA and NHTSA estimate that the HD National Program will cost the affected industry about $8 billion, while saving vehicle owners fuel costs of about $50 billion over the lifetimes of model year 2014-2018 vehicles, discounted at three percent."
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kevjon 2011/08/10 01:43:50
Yes, in the laboratory, the vehicles run just fine. However, under load and in working situations, it doesn't work. Also, these vehicles are not replaced often, but repaired and kept running for years. What these new regulations would do is further add to the cost of doing business, force the junking of equipment, and increase costs tremendously. This, in turn, will lead to further loss of jobs as businesses move out of the US to less restrictive countries and others go under from unrecoverable costs and/or production costs passed on to consumers are not competitive with foreign products.
Obama, the EPA, and a number of other federal agencies are very shortsighted and limited in their ability and desire to evaluate the entire spectrum of intended and unintended consequences.
Just as the story said, the oil companies aren't going to be happy. That's a *good* thing. We shouldn't care what the damn oil companies think. If anything is evil, it's them.
The CORRECT answer to this question is...
--"It's NONE of my business what someone else does with their big rig."--
...least of all, some GD ghetto commie in Washington DC who couldn't hit his own a$s with both hands if he was given a dozen free chances!
Why?
Because the only way to remain competitive and sell trucks is to have the most efficient vehicle.
This is just further evidence (as if we really needed it) of how far Obama is from the real world. This is what happens when you elect an idealist who has absolutely no knowledge of how a business operates and has absolutely no managerial experience of any kind before becoming the most powerful executive on the planet.
By imposing completely unrealistic and unachievable fuel mileage mandates, he has effectively killed the entire U.S. auto and truck manufacturing business.
Of course, that will give him a great opportunity to bail them out with money we don't
have.
If there is another human on the planet who is less capable of being the President of this once great and soon to be extinct Country, I honestly don't know who it might be.
Let's see how smart the people of America are in 2012, if we survive that long!
Obama needs to get his head out of the sand and wake up. I'm sorry I voted for this man in 2008 but in my mind he was the lesser of two evils. NEVER AGAIN!
Teamster's Union, anyone?
semis make more sense over short distance to and from rail heads. rail is the most efficient way to move large amounts of cargo over long distance.
May I ask just two questions though?
So, what will happen when manufacturers of these large vehicles will be unable to meet the new standards?
What makes you think that an administration, which obviously doesn't have a clue how business works other what they read in their collage books written by the same people that sit in this administration, is capable of presenting plausible figures?
The cost to affected industry $8,000,000, the saving the fleet operators will enjoy $50,000,000.
Name one person in Obama administration or EPA contributing to these claims who was either building commercial vehicles or operated one for a longer period than two years in recent years.
Or these numbers came for Harvard and Yale professors who left their University Villages for the first time in recent years to join our current administration in the fight for better America?
The government shouldn't require any improvements since it will end up costing consumers more. Government causes more inflation than any other factor -- through regulations just like this.
We particularly don't need more expensive goods during this recession.