President Barack Obama announced tough new fuel economy and emissions standards Tuesday that automakers must adopt by 2016, saying the rules will “help America break it dependence on oil, reduce harmful pollution and begin the transition to a clean-energy economy.” Full Story »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
This article is brief - a little puffy - but it delivered on its title and that was that the automakers have unified, essentially, around the goal and President. Why wouldn't they? Their very existence relies on his ostensible support. Points off for not illuminating that point. Conversely, most of the other articles I've read over the last day or so have completely ignored the fact that the new regs were done by agreement and even if just for good 'face' applauded by the troubled industry.
This topic is almost as off-the-rails as Gitmo. There is, in my personal observation, the same singular inspiration behind calculating doom and gloom over these new regs - its a natural - a no brainer - its the oil industry. Everything that greening the economy and planet stands for is detrimental to deployed oil industry assets. Period. One does not need a tin-foil hat and years of experience in channeling dead industrialists to observe the disruptive pattern of misinformation.
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