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The Obama administration has announced an executive decision to raise the Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards to 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016, four years ahead of the deadline originally set by the Energy Security and Independence Act of 2007.
And that could mean danger for many Americans.
Steve Milloy, the author of the book "Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Ruin Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them," has argued that these new Obama administration-imposed CAFE standards "may kill more Americans at a faster rate than the Iraq War – [President Obama's] signature issue in the 2008 presidential campaign."
Moreover, by advancing by four years the date for the 35.5 mpg CAFÉ standard to be met, Obama is trying to outdo Jimmy Carter in a move that runs the risk of having his administration being characterized as "Jimmy Carter II."
The government move to dictate small cars for the U.S. consumer traces back to the Arab oil embargo and the attempt by Carter to conserve oil by imposing fuel efficiency goals for all vehicles sold in the U.S. market.
As Red Alert predicted in a piece entitled "Here Come the Obamamobiles," the Obama administration can only achieve these new CAFE standards by dictating that auto manufacturers make "smaller, lighter and deadlier cars."
On his website, GreenHellBlog.com, Milloy used National Academy of Sciences data to argue the mileage standards will cause around 2,000 highway deaths per year, approximately five new fatalities per day.
By comparison, since 2003, the Iraqi War has caused 4,299 U.S. military deaths.The Obama administration has announced an executive decision to raise the Corporate... more
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