# Obama: Car related **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [May 19, 2009, 7:42am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obama-car-related/202804 "2009-05-19T07:42:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 28
**Author:** ![Jeff95TA](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeff95ta/32/5935_2.png) [@Jeff95TA](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jeff95TA)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obama-car-related/202804/28 "2009-05-19T15:44:52Z")
> [@quick question](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/quick-question/40322/22): > > because both the consumer and manufacturers are too fucking stupid to get it on their own. And again I say, the A in CAFE stands for AVERAGE. You can still have some gas hogs, you just have to balance them out with higher efficiency models in other classes. Vettes get like 30mpg so don’t even whine about sports cars being on the road to extinction. If this keeps Suzy Q. Soccermom from buying a fucking land yacht to truck her one kid to and from school and her own fat ass to and from the mall, then good… fuck her! Then I say take it one step further. If you buy or own a vehicle that is rated less than the new CAFE standard, impose a yearly fee on that vehicle, kind of like a recurring gas guzzler tax. I don’t know, something like $100 for every mpg under the standard. That would encourage people to not only buy more effiecient vehicles, but to get rid of the ones they have. What’s the rating on your Vette? Or as an option, you can work off your fee by riding a bicycle attached to a big generator that dumps electricity to the power grid. That would help with the national obesity prolem too. If we go to electric cars, California is going to need it. Can you imagine the brownouts with all the cars plugged in? Maybe we could wipe out Beverly Hills and have Westinghouse build several nuclear plants. Now there’s a stimulus package the engineers would like. I wonder if this is a hybrid. 😃 --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obama-car-related/202804)._