New Mileage Rules Could Easily Add $6,000 The Price Of New Cars

triple the price of gas, and this is for the environment, for the better of man kind, or to get the middle class on transit so the extremely rich can have the road to them selves.

Funny how everyone forgets that gas prices started to increase out of control under Bush Jr.'s administration. Will we ever know what deals the oil & energy companies cut with VP Cheney?

As for mileage increase, get use to it. The cost of inflation and increased interest rates will add thousands to the cost of the vehicles by that time alone!

wah wah wah.. we've heard all this before. From the 70's and on through the '80s the auto industry execs bitched and moaned and gave lame predictions about car price rises ...guess what... car price inflation has been about on par with the normal inflation rate all along- and with much better technology and emissions. The fact is, government regulation helps create entire new private industries- how many catalytic convertor companies were there before 1973? Or how many software engineers now write code for better emissions in car engine ECU's? Fuel injection, catalytic convertors, air pumps, sensors galore are all because governments around the world made the auto industry do it. Without regulations LA would still be a smog cesspool like in the "good ol days.".

Same complaints when cars were required to add seatbelts...and airbags....and actually allow you to survive a crash. Can you imagine buying a car that was built to 60's standards right now? Deathtraps in a crash.

Sounds like bullshit to me. Putting a turbo diesel in a base model car wont cost an extra $6k. Its when you can only get the diesel with the useless tech shit in the car then it will cost 6k extra.

I must be getting downvoted by car salesmen.

Agent009,

You epitomises everything about the crowd that will vote against their interest.

Between Obama and the tea party, we're screwed.

Do you really think that the Republicans wouldn't screw it up too? they all follow the same orders from the extremely rich, you need Dr Ron Paul, he is the only guy willing to do something for America, he wouldn't make a good Puppet, and the media does there best to paint him as a nut, do you know who owns the media? these are facts, not opinions. We all would like to believe that we would know what propaganda is, sadly the majority of people are great sheep with a good media spin.

Religious folks hijacked the "tea party", I assume that is what g2ok is talking about. I don't think he is talking about Ron Paul supporters, that is why I "boosted him". We need someone with balls, not someone who is self serving. Good luck, I know.

The tea party is funded by an oil company, they talk a good game just like the other puppets, the bottom line is they will do what ever the oil company tells them to do, it should be illegal.

I don't watch Comedy central, FWIW. Point is, there are multiple sects of the tea party and you really shouldn't label all of them with the same brush stroke. I feel Bachmann and Paul have significantly different views politically, but they are both "tea party" leaders. I have no problem with being religious, but I will not vote for someone that bases their campaign on religion.

BTW, just today Nader said a very similar thing as i did about tea party being hijacked, but he labels the people corporatist, rather than religious folks. He is probably more accurate, but Bachmann lets religion motivate her concerns. IMO, his label gives logical reasoning behind their motives, even if you do not like the intended results. *Note: that info was not procured from Comedy Central*

Autospies2, I never suggested that Obama isn't corrupt, In my blogs I usually suggest all of the parties are paid off to some special interest group, although I believe DR. Ron Paul is America's answer, I am a fan of his, I could hang with Obama too, but he has his orders, although I believe he has been pushing his luck more than any president since Kennedy, but still bowing to corruption so the gov. doesn't kill him too.

Reading the article I feel woefully sorry for everybody.

Comments like
"As a result, oil dependence worsened, global warming worsened and it put both individual consumers and the economy at risk from the kind of high gas prices we experienced."
Show that the people involved in determining these standards believe that correlation implies causality.

And then comments like
"I think it will just increase the focus and the pressure on new technologies,"
Show just how short sighted some people are. Seriously, is that all that a president of Eaton believes will happen?

No matter where you sit on the topic, you're going to get screwed! Even if you are buying into climate change and all that hype. You have "experts" making changes for you based on their own simplistic moral notions of good and evil using fallible logic to support their own conclusions. They honestly aren't representing the "green" movement in the brightest light.

I can always tell if an article is submitted by this shortsighted redneck just by reading the headline! It's rather fun actually.

I heard this before and i have to agree now 009 will be the death of autospies. Get some substance for this site not all of this political BS.

If the US automakers did not pay their way out of mileage increases, they would be in better shape now.

US automakers are going to have to meet these standards to stay competitive in the global market anyway.

"New Mileage Rules" = more taxes/tariffs/fees to modify social behavior.