[Maybe] they believe all these problems can be fixed by forcing consumers to buy electric cars. After all, if we can be forced to buy health insurance, why not electric cars?
As silly as that sounds, this seems to be EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson’s plan. She recently overruled Congress by issuing regulations calling for America’s fleet of passenger vehicles to meet an average fuel economy of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025.
But if nobody wants the electric vehicles our government backed industries can provide, how will our industry meet the new mileage standards?
How? With ingenuity. If you can't make the bureaucracy bend the rules to favor you by deploying lots of lobbyists because you are an out-of-favor industry, you work around the new rules. Like McDonalds:
San Francisco’s ban on McDonald’s Happy Meals goes into effect today. But because the law bans only giving away toys with certain meals, restaurants are set to comply with the law by selling the toys.
Now, not only can kids still get toys with their burger and fries, but McDonald’s will earn an extra dime per sale and donate the funds to its charity, the Ronald McDonald House. Unsurprisingly, the Occupy McDonald’s crowd is furious. The San Francisco Examiner’s Joshua Sabatini claims that McDonald’s is “skirting” the law, while self-styled public-health lawyer Michele Simon alleges that McDonald’s is “exploiting” kids.
"Skirting" the law? No. In a land where the rule of law stands, the rule as it stands must be the law. McDonald's appears to have obeyed it precisely.
So perhaps our auto industry can meet average fleet mileage requirements with a vehicle that at least costs far less to design and build than the electric white elephants that few outside of a government fleet parking lot have experienced:
From: Telegraph.co.uk
Is this sustainable, or what?
