Give Them The Gas Face

The wingers are going nuts with the whole ZOMG OBAMA FASCIST CAR TAX!!! plan to increase CAFE standards.

The reality is that in the long run, you'll save money on the car when gas goes back up to $4-$5 a gallon (and it will, maybe not this summer, but it will) and it has some major additional benefits:

* 5% per year increase in fuel efficiency
* An increase form 25 MPG fleet average to 35.5 MPR fleet average
* 1.8 billion barrels of oil saved
* A reduction of 900 million metric tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
* The equivalent of 177 million cars off the road--or 194 coal plants shut down

Seems like a winner to me. Some back of the napkin numbers: 15,000 miles a year at 35 miles to the gallon is 428 gallons compared to 25 MPG, that's 600 gallons a year, you save 172 gallons of gas a year. At $4 a gallon, the OBAMA CAR TAX OF DOOM pays for itself in...23 months.

Everything after that is money you save. Plan on owning the next new car you buy for more than two years? I would think so. When you're saving $688 a year in gas in a car that should last you ten years or more, you tell me if that $1300 is worth it in the long run.

$1300 now versus $6880 later AND you save the planet? You do the math. Wingers I guess aren't smart enough to handle the numbers.