# 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:** 36
**Author:** ![kilmer420](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/d6d6ee/32.png) [@kilmer420](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/kilmer420)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2009, 11:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obama-car-related/202804/36 "2009-05-20T11:22:13Z")
> [@Winter Storm Warning starting Saturday night (12/15)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/winter-storm-warning-starting-saturday-night-12-15/40289/230): > > totally agree. the gov getting it’s hands into private business is not the way to go. you keep repeating yourself, like we didn’t get it the first time…GOV intervention of emissions/inspections has been around for a long long time and for the most part it’s only been a good thing…how many rust buckets are there in Ohio and Florida where there are no emissions standards…so the GOV actually isn’t doing ish they make the state deal with this issue…so stop with your :blah: they aren’t in private business to begin with (not counting the bailout now), there needs to be some regulation the market doesn’t just take care of itself…go read what Greenspan talked about late last year about the market collapse, that should explain a lot to you… > [@HID bulb brand](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hid-bulb-brand/40364/5): > > oh yeah… i get it. If put into perspective it’s not a huge huge problem… make the corvette that gets 8mpg and make the \ that gets 40mpg and average it. > > I guess my point is moreso that it’s the start of something ugly. National government intervention into cars being sold in the US and A… moving forward DOT inspection might not be the only legality when bringing over cars non-us produced. Also what happens when the FLEET increase in MPG works so well that they move on to tackle all the ‘old’ cars out there? just an ugly road to start traveling in my opinion. :gives: man is darkstain going to love this vette reference…they get 30mpg’s according to him but all the 09 models with the 6.2 motor get 26mpg in reality terms it would only be good if they bring foreign cars and make them have higher standards, that’s what I see being argued here to begin with…we can’t compete so let’s make the rules harder on non us models 😛 all the old cars will be grandfathered in, that’s how the GOV deals with that stuff, like guns for instance, but let’s not get onto another topic… i think it’s good, because it’ll make the automakers create alternative fuel cars (hopefully not ethanol that’s not a good long term idea and probalby not even short term actually) meaning electric like the volt and diesels will make a resurrection unless we come up with something else that will be affordable? hydrogen? --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obama-car-related/202804)._