[Rooster Cogburn]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090519/D989J3F00.html

DETROIT (AP) - Some soccer moms will have to give up hulking SUVs. Carpenters will still haul materials around in pickup trucks, but they will cost more. Nearly everybody else will drive smaller cars, and more of them will run on electricity. The higher mileage and emissions standards set by the Obama administration on Tuesday, which begin to take effect in 2012 and are to be achieved by 2016, will transform the American car and truck fleet.

The new rules would bring new cars and trucks sold in the United States to an average of 35.5 miles per gallon, about 10 mpg more than today's standards. Passenger cars will be required to get 39 mpg, light trucks 30 mpg.

That means cars and trucks on American roads will have to become smaller, lighter and more efficient.

This is the definition of big government: telling the automakers what they can and can't make, which by default limits and tells us what we can and can not buy. I can't wait to try and cram my 4 kids into a Gee Wiz or a Honda Fit.


I'll take this one!