President Trump says he want to “go back, probably, to a 2020 standard” as regards federal mandatory miles-per-gallon edicts – the latter being the right word because it’s the honest word.
A “standard” is an objective value of some kind, used to evaluate whether a given thing rises to that standard. Federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) “standards,” on the other hand, are nothing more than the federal government decreeing that all new vehicles must average an arbitrarily laid down minimum miles-per-gallon. Those that do not average say 35 miles per gallon – the standard in force in 2020 – are considered “noncompliant” and their manufacturer is punished for this via fines that are imposed for offering such “noncompliant” cars for sale.
Note the offering part.
It often – it almost always – passes without comment that no one is forced to buy a vehicle that does not average 35 MPG. People are free not to. But they aren’t free to buy a vehicle that averages less than 35 MPG in that it’s not “free” when you’re made to pay more for something. Sure, you can buy a new car with a six cylinder engine. But you probably can’t afford to – because CAFE fines have made six-cylinder-powered cars luxury-priced cars and most of them no longer come standard with sixes anymore, either.
The fundamental discussion about whether the federal government has any legitimate business decreeing how many miles-per-gallon new vehicles must deliver is the one that needs to happen.
Trump’s comment to John Elkann, the new chairman of Stellantis, about “going back, probably, to a 2020 standard” is of a piece with the promises of Republicans to “mend” – but not end – Social Security and to “repeal and replace” Obamacare. With – of course – a Republic version of Obamacare. Statism always advances. Its “retreats” – when they occur – are merely slower advances.
Trump was correct when he told Elkann that the federal fuel economy fatwas – which have been framed as being as much about “emissions” (of the dread gas carbon dioxide) as about gas mileage – don’t “mean a damn bit of difference for the environment” but wrong when he added that they “make it impossible for people build cars.”
Not so.
CAFE just makes it hard to sell vehicles that are not devices – i.e., electric or partially electric vehicles – and engines that are larger than small fours. They make it extremely expensive to offer for sale large vehicles with large engines. There are plenty of medium-small look-alike crossovers with one-point-something (maybe two-point-o) liter engines available. These are the ones that are “compliant” with the 2020 standards – and these are the ones we’ll continue to get if Trump “goes back” to the 2020 standards.
Trump himself understands this. “We’re going to be bringing it back to a standard that is a very good environmental standard, but it makes it possible to build a car,” he said. 
So there you go.
And note the part about the “very good environmental standard.” It suggests Trump agrees that there ought to be “standards” – just more reasonable ones (according to his standard).
We are supposed to be grateful that Trump is opposed to the near-doubling of the 2020 standard – to about 50 miles-per-gallon – that was decreed by the Scranton Sniffer. This “standard” would have effectively forced the manufacturers to make almost nothing other than electric and partially electric cars – because those are the only kinds of vehicles that can be made to average 50 MPG. It would still be legal to sell vehicles with engines – even V8s – but they would become so expensive (as a result of CAFE fines) as to be available only to the small handful of people in a position to be able to afford them.
And maybe we ought to be grateful – in the manner of Stalin’s chicken. After all, a little crossover with a one-point-something liter turbocharged four (or three) is still preferable to an EeeeeeeeeeeeeeeVeeeeeee.
But why not just dump the “standards” altogether? Is it too much to ask that the American people be allowed to buy vehicles that meet their standard rather than the government’s?
Naturally. Of course.
The government and its apparatchiks are not in the business of ceding authority over us. The government and its apparatchiks occasionally mollify us by dialing back the authority a little, every now and then. As for instance “tax reform.” Which never means no taxes. Just a little less taxation, for now.
There is almost never a case of government getting out of our business altogether.
And that seems to be what’s happening with regard to CAFE “standards.” Which means we’re not going to be paying less for new vehicles or getting to choose the kinds of vehicles that meet our standards. We’ll just be paying a little less more than we would have – and we’ll be allowed to buy a new small crossover with a one-point-something-liter four instead of being pushed into a battery powered device.
For now.
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“It would still be legal to sell vehicles with engines – even V8s – but they would become so expensive (as a result of CAFE fines) as to be available only to the small handful of people in a position to be able to afford them.”
Yes, available to those who could afford them. But let us not forget, also available to those who could not afford them, but have them supplied at tax payer expense. “As a Senator (or Governor, or head of a state agency, or manager at the Auto Tag Office, or Head Janitor, etc.) it is important that I have safe, reliable, transportation as part of my job. Of COURSE, a vehicle large enough to allow discussion and meeting with a few other Very Important People is a minimal requirement for me to perform my appointed services to the public! I would NEVER request such a vehicle simply for my own desires, but if I am to serve to my maximum ability, I guess I will just have to accept the limo. And the driver. And maybe a police escort car. Or two.”
The gruesome reality is that one day Trump will be gone and whatever good or bad he has been perceived as doing will be undone by the next regime within 4 short years. The leftists, democrats, liberal women, RINOs and many republicans hate Trump. They will do everything they can to bury his “legacy” in the bowls of some deep volcano.
Government didn’t go wacko overnight. It has been building up momentum in the sciences of corruption and thievery since the Civil War. Government can never be fixed. Not in a dozen Trump terms in office.
We may be getting a slight break today from more government/globalist tyranny, but it is more like we are in the eye of a Cat-10 hurricane than a decisive change of course.
Agree that when the Dirty Dems return to power they’ll undo everything. Hopefully it will be ‘the straw that breaks the camel’s back” — and sensible citizens of every stripe will shout: “We’re not going to take it anymore.”
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Eric, not following too closely – but initially heard the Trump administration will completely scrap the concept of CAFE. And also even perhaps Rins regulation. Is all this officially dead, and we have to be pleased with 2020 standards?
On another note – I was talking to someone about protectionism – the view was western auto manufacturers now NEED this sort of complicated regulation to protect them from new entrants, particularly from Asia – which is why even they dont want it scrapped. Im starting to think this is the case…
Good morning Eric,
My memory starts in the late 60’s and it really doesn’t seem so long ago..
While maybe not perfect, people seemed to have a higher quality of character, as in more honest decent friendly and helpful back then. As children, folks in our community treated us well and made us kids feel valuable.. like we were the future. A simpler time when a small honest paycheck was all one needed to get by and live happy.
Who would have believed that all it would take to destroy mankind was fluoride, fiat currency and dirt cheap microchips?
Be glad we got to live in a time when we both got to own and drive Trans Am’s and chase pretty girls without not much of a care in the world. 🙂
..today is depressing to contemplate -indeed.
This is exactly the kind of thing that speculating on a Trump 3rd term in 2025 waters down. I almost couldn’t tell this flag was red because you pulled it whilst standing on the banks of the river of verbal diarrhea that is unhinged anti-trumpism of the mainstream media of the last decade.
But this is definitely a red flag.
It sounds to me like this is a trial balloon.
Nobody but you is looking at this as if it were a right to manufacture without these rules, and there’s never going to be another Elon Musk with these rules in place. They’re there to keep competition out, and the CEOs don’t give a shit either way.
They’re not interested in giving us jobs and affordable cars, and cars that can compete in foreign markets with cars built brand new with old tooling of the last 2 decades.
All things we need. At least half of FMVSS should be gotten rid of, CARB dissolved of influence, MY 2000 should be the target (in reality 1974 levels when they fixed the smog problem, but Trump would probably sign onto 2000 EPA CAFE levels pretty likely if somebody asked, which the big three aren’t going to ask, and neither is Elon Musk going to push for getting rid of FMVSS even though it’s a massive government overreach to begin with). And the carbon credits have to end. CAFE is supposed to be about pollution emitted, not a tax.
I’ll keep trying to call in to the AJ show, with the request you get 15 minutes to give your take, on what Trump should do.
That is if you would give Trump advice on what to do, lets break the matrix, and I’ll keep calling.
I maintain that making red-hat bashing the flavor of the week ensures that any message like this only falls on TDS infected ears, not anyone who is on team Trump, and further still anyone trying to help the president or the people.
Just once I’d like to hear on the news it all laid out succinctly everything you normally cover when it comes to cars, packaged in a way it could conceivably be boiled down and fed to Trump, who clearly doesn’t get it yet, and is asking the CEOs who hate our guts what they would do if they opened a factory here, and they’re not remotely interested in making anything we want or any country not crushed by globalism would want to import.
Give the Trump bashing a rest, it’s only making your readers more deranged. This is the kind of thing you save that for. Thanks for the news flash Eric. Cheers.
Morning, Steve –
I am perplexed. How is it “bashing” Trump to point out facts about Trump? Are we supposed to look the other way and just cheer him, regardless – because he’s Trump? Not me. And if that means I’m “deranged,” it’s an honorable title and I wear it proudly. You’re young – maybe too young to remember The Chimp. I do remember him. And I remember being accused at the time by my “conservative” friends of betraying them by having the gall to say and write things critical of The Chimp and his “war” on Trrrrrrr. Which was of course a war on us – and we’ve been terrorized ever since.
Di you catch Noem pushing the REAL ID, by the way? And how do you feel about Trump’s “anti-Semitism” advisor? About people’s social media being scoured for evidence of “anti-Semitism”?
Afternoon Eric,
You missed the point. I’m not calling this deranged, I’m thanking you for raising the red flag on this one by pointing out the facts and linking to the article. Somebody needs to educate the man, and the people around him are 50/50 as usual.
I am noting in general though that the way things are packaged, with unflattering images and orange man this, orange man that, and joining in with the leftist drivel about a Trump 3rd term, is an instant turn off. There is no shortage drivel on the topic on the internet by any means.
Jones already loathes so called libertarians who have an unhealthy fixation on semitism, who think it’s cool to sit around criticizing Musk and Trump all day, and so do I.
It’s like the time I was in DC and stopped to listen to some quacks about Jesus being black, zion this and that. I clearly wasn’t buying it, but I stuck around to observe in a disappointing fashion, and then the only other white guy in the small crowd, who was wearing a swastika tattoo on his forehead, walks up and stands right next to me.
Most people I assume are completely sick of the Orange Man this / that routine. The president has a name, and wasn’t “selected” but “elected”. Those trucks in the middle of the night turned away had ballots for the other person.
I would forgive anyone who mistakes this site as leftist. Shit talking about the “red hats” as if they stand with Israel or such nonsense doesn’t help. You voted for him, so I guess that applies to you too? I thought not.
Their our servants, not our saviors. It’s not about laying off of criticism, and giving the benefit of the doubt. Somebody needs to package an emergency message to Trump in a way that information might actually flow, between that and prayer that’s about all there is. As said in the movie They Live “Well when you get some sort of master plan, you let me know Eh!”
Side note:
I’m not impressed by the language in the EO regarding REAL ID, and it looks like the only way around that is if VA updates us into the new voter registration database, which is likely, before REAL ID is mandated anyway in like a year. It’s hard to argue with the way the EO is written though, and I’m none saddened by the potential for shifting the database away from the hands of the communists, but I’m doubtful VA will do anything about it. I’ve got registration due at the end of the month, and will be bringing my birth certificate and asking if I’m still registered to vote.
Put on the glasses, take a look. Read the comments. Your readers who are already anti-Trump are getting more rabid. Who else is going to read this stuff. You’re talking in an echo chamber, and are putting off anyone who needs a different point of view. That is my assholeopinion.
I voted for Trump knowing full well that I was going to hate 25% of what he was going to do. I underestimated him. About 75% of his actions have made me retch.
I’m afraid that if he continues to censor, equivocate, pander, and monger under the banner of ‘conservatism’ he will ruin the brand just the way Biden ruined ‘liberalism’.
It’s important to call out a politician’s failures early and loudly to get his/her supporters to reject him/her quickly and decisively. Only the threat of the loss of power has a chance of getting a politician to course-correct, and even that is not certain with fanatics and lame ducks.
There is no point in supporting bad policies just because you team proposes them. When you do, you end up with 8 years of idiot GWB followed by 8 years of backlash with hopey changy Obama.
Hi Ron,
You’ve just said what I’ve been trying to say; thank you! I am glad Trump publicly stated men can’t “transition” into women. Since then, I’m less glad. Like you, I dread repeat of The Chimp, this time with an orange spray tan – because it will be disastrous for the country and end up likely leading to an outright Communist come 2028.
Hi Steve,
I’ve always called them as I see them – as the facts suggest they ought to be seen. I was unpopular for this during The Chimp Years and very unpopular during the first years of the “pandemic.” I may be so again, for daring to point out the bullshit again. So be it. I decided I was gong to be my own man many years ago and have never regretted it.
Yeppers, Eric & Ron. You guys said it well.
One thing, maybe nothing? The first time the Orange Tangelo won, for years afterwards, his supporters in this area kept their Trump signs up all over the place & the Trump flags were on many a flag pole or hung elsewhere for people to see.
This go around, I don’t see too many. The majority of the ones which were visible in Jan. 2025 are gone.
Sure I voted for him.
But I think it’s fair to say that Trump is neither the problem nor the solution, merely the symptom.
Also I think it’s fair to say his opponents would most likely have been worse.
Also I think it’s fair to say that Trump could be better, and is often completely wrong, and to call him out for it. Just like it was important 4 years ago to call out Biden for being an idiot. Presidents are only human, they are surrounded by suckups and ass-kissers, and they have egos. We all suffer from that & need the criticism. Except me, of course, I’m always right 😉
It is now quite apparent Trump will change nothing.
He is a speed bump on the road to catastrophe.
Yeah, the first 6 weeks after inauguration seemed very promising, but I’m afraid you’re right.
Tom Woods’ Law: No matter who you vote for, you always end up with John McCain.
Flew in from DFW to PHX last weekend, only to be greeted by this repugnant sight:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FHS3Cgpdc1g/maxresdefault.jpg
Next thing I saw was an EeeVee charging station. I actually threw up a little in my mouf.
That is a disturbing reminder of the religion that is American politics.
I remember voting for McCain, big mistake!
Don’t forget [Scott] Horton’s Law: a politician will always keep their bad promises, and never keep their good promises.
It may interest Eric and the readers of this site the latest False Flag Weekly News, Dr. Kevin Barrett interviews Jim Fetzer
@6:30 Trump FAKE shooting
https://truthjihad.com/2025/04/10/yahwism-vs-monotheism-are-jews-programmed-for-genocide/
In my opinion the Trump regime is chaos on steroids heading toward multiple huge disasters, I believe we now have enough evidence to predict how the Trump regime fares. IMO Trump is an Zioidiot and heading toward a huge fall. Trump may be doing many good things but his Gaza policy is the turd in the punch bowl. Trump is damn determined to destroy his presidency over Gaza, which bears no interest for the USA.
1. Trump has pissed off the world with his tariff terrorism – and started a huge stock slide, then over the past weekend the bond market sold off – resulting in a huge spike in 30 year Treasury yields.
2. Trump has massively pissed off China, which is said to be arming Yemen. China’s has been cut off from its primary market the USA, so now China will have to rely on Belt and Road – which goes through Tehran AND AROUND YEMEN.
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=belt+and+road+maps&ia=images&iax=images
3. Iran is telling the Trump regime to go f-ck themselves. Iran views Trump as a joke. Trump is a joke – an orange clown puppet – a Zioscum POS who threatens everyone because of his treasonous loyalty to Israel. Trump’s loyalty to a foreign state will cause many on the far right to lose hope in the posing orange turd. If stocks crash, all the MAGAtarians who lose 401Ks will also jump ship – Trump is on the edge on having his base evaporate.
4. Trump blows hot air about Ukraine, neither Russia nor Zelensky is listening to him. The USA as world leader is over, neither party gives a shit what Trump says or thinks. The EU has taken an opposition to Trump’s policies over Ukraine. Trump has isolated the USA from the UK and EU.
5. Gold is spiking higher – a sure sign the system is coming unraveled. Each day gold makes a new high (like in the late 1970s) is a force to raise interest rates (like the late 1970s). What do we see, a reversal of 30 year bond rates this last week. The shit of high interest rates could easily be hitting the fan come summer. Real estate will tank if mortgage rates go up again, 8% is the magic threshold.
6. Trump regimes endless threats to bomb other nations. The constant daily use of threats is wearing thin and becoming a joke other nations ignore because they realize the empire of lies is collapsing and Trump is just an orange clown throwing a fit on the deck of the sinking USS Titanic.
7. Trump allies could soon abandon the ship. Elon is taking heat, his choice to help Trump is causing a huge backlash against Tesla cars. Like Trump 1.0, we could see high staff turnover. Trump is now making his staff wear Trump loyalty pins. Trump is an egomaniac demanding loyalty to him the incompetent emperor.
8. Out of control deficit. The budget needs to be slashed. Trump proposes a trillion dollar defense budget. Deagel forecast USA defense cut 90% by 2025. Something has to give. The USA has a huge deficit crisis which is being ignored – which means it is going to blow up in their faces.
So what I predict are multiple huge crises overwhelming the Trump Ziopuppet regime. If Trump is stupid enough to attack Iran, all hell will break lose, so it is doubtful Trump has the cojones to “go down there” “into the coulee” like General Custer at Little Bighorn.
The cave has begun:
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-global-economy/trumps-tariff-blitz-now-exempting-electrical-goods-like-phones-laptops
Dumb, dumb move. If you are going to threaten hold tough or just don’t threaten.
I don’t think the change was the end result of Apple applying pressure as much as Nintendo.
Nintendo’s new theme park attractions open as part of Epic Universe in Orlando on May 22. The Switch 2 tentatively ships on June 5.
It is all about the “synergy”.
Apple does have a new “SE” watch coming this year, possibly in June, where they didn’t release one in 2024.
I’ve noticed that even the $15/hour labor at the doctors’ offices around here (Austin) all have an Apple Watch.
> $15/hour labor at the doctors’ offices
I am continually amazed by the high percentage of doctors’ minions (female) who are grossly obese. You might think they would be “health conscious” since they work in the so-called “health” industry. But, nooo.
Same here in WA, which generally is sweathog central anyways.
“Once a sweathog, always a sweathog” St Sparkules
Most Puget Sound area restaurants have double doors for good reason.
Everyone in the clinic I go to for the yearly checkup is huugge. Sadly many are young, and would be reasonably attractive if they weren’t 80-100 lbs overweight.
Not to mention tatted, stupid and obnoxious…
Eat, eat, eat, don’t work out, and let yourself go. I do intermittent fasting, eat one light and one heavy meal a day, work out and stay active. If you start eating as soon as you wake up you’re doomed.
Amen, Adi –
One of my friends is a nurse and he has told me about the women he works with at the VA. Almost all are leftists and almost all are obese. This is the “health care” system.
It’s funny how people in the health care system often appear to be not in very good health. Jeff Burwick calls it hell care by the Center of Death and Criminals.
My father in law was always in great shape, cross country skier into his ‘80s. At 91 he had it out with his doctor when it was another “checkup” of 8 minutes and obviously another Medicare grifter. “You won’t listen and run me in and out in mere minutes – while I smell that disgusting cigarette odor from you, what kind of doctor smokes in this day and age! Plus all your staff are morbidly obese, fine examples ehh?”
Doctor apologized and actually spent reasonable time with him after that.
It’s the Mountain Dew fraus at the front.
Orange Jesus is a very bad actor, he is a compromised stooge…like all pols that get to the head of the class
No New Car meets my standards – which is why I will never buy another New Car. Last time I purchased New was in 2017 and that one was not US Spec.
OT but Darth Tangelo just exempted sail fawns, TeeVees, computers and some other tech-y things from his tough guy tariffs on Chyyyyyyna. The AI techno spy grid will not be hampered. Yay, more winning!
More winning — art of the deal, innit?
Stonks up five percent Monday morning!
Then they get knocked back down when some corporate giant defaults, or the repo market seizes up, or Donnie nukes Tehran, or whatever.
The peeps cry out in distress, but the shit show caravan impassively rolls on.
The best anyone can hope for is a peaceful death.
“Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
If we don’t eliminate the EPA now their regulations will just come back with the next administration. Even if eliminated I still expect new cars to be fuel injected, have catalytic converters and overdrive transmissions. The reason why is that most people won’t put up with carbs and do want decent fuel economy with low pollution emissions at a price they can afford.
Hi Landru,
EFI and overdrive transmissions and catalytic converters improve drivability and mileage hugely and have eliminated meaningfully harmful pollution coming rom vehicles and without massive expense. My ’02 Frontier has all three of those things and when it was new, it had a sticker price of about $12,000 – about $21k in today’s money. Try finding a new truck for $21k today – in this country.
But in other countries, one can buy a $13k truck- the Hilux Champ – which in inflation adjusted terms costs about half what my ’02 Frontier cost when it was new. But we’re not allowed to buy it.
Meaningfully harmful pollution is more accurate than low pollution emissions, but is what I meant. Reduce the stuff that kills the environment and forget about stuff like CO2 that helps the plants to live.
I want to go back to leaded gas.
The next Dem administration will drop the Federal speed limit to 55.
Whether or not the states go along, a Federal policy of 55 MPH will eliminate the top end of the gas mileage tests currently used at the EPA, making it impossible for *any* IC vehicle to meet the 50 MPG CAFE standard.
The 70s era “fudge factor” will return for MPG estimates. Europe already introduced the change lowering speeds of the gas mileage tests.
‘Statism always advances. Its “retreats” – when they occur – are merely slower advances.’ — eric
Case in point — the budget resolution the House passed this week. Despite Republican posturing as the party of fiscal responsibility — and Trump’s glib pre-election promise to end the Ukie war with one phone call to his buddy Vlad — R-party reprobates just voted for the first trillion-dollar defense budget ever.
No savings there, not even DOGE cuts, despite the Defense Dept. being perpetually unable to pass an audit. Trump has an idée fixe that the military, with its hundreds of foreign bases, ALWAYS needs more funding. It parallels his idée fixe that tahhhrrrfs are a magic potion — much like my childhood physician’s unshakable notion that a penicillin shot would cure anything from a bee sting to a scuffed elbow.
We live under a grifting gerontocracy locked into ossified policies. We’ve had a national security state (1947), a zionist apartheid state (1948) and NATO (1949) for over 75 years; ergo, they must soldier on forever.
‘Men go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one,’ wrote Charles Mackay. The US fedgov is the ultimate mindless herd. Approaching bankruptcy with its $36 trillion debt, it just keeps on ‘investing’ in the same negative rate of return follies. A complete crack-up, accompanied by the mass arrest and jailing of DemonRat and Repugniclown ‘leaders,’ is our only hope.
History will record that dimwitted Orange Hoover, who unaccountably believed himself to be a ‘stable genius,’ pauperized his own people. Imo buy me one of these here Donnie Fubar voodoo doll pin cushions — made in the US-fuckin-A:
https://tinyurl.com/3xu3pff4
In a nutshell, yes, our country is run by maniacal crypt-keepers. All this media nonsense propping them up is getting, how should we say it? OLD. There are no elder statesmen. They all need caregivers behind the scenes. Why would any sane person still give these people the time of day. the only ones who should have to listen to these megalomaniacs are their kids, grandkids, and great grandkids.
The ones who insist the only answer to every problem is moar, should be shunned from the public debate and gagged with a face diaper of their own choosing. In charge for over fifty years, and still the same lame prescriptions for what ails us as a society. The majority of the senate, and the jewdiciary should be chained in wheel chairs and put in a corner. They can press their life alert buttons when they need some attention.
Eliminating all political parties and not allowing anyone over sixty in any level of Government would be the right first move. If we cant have that, then perhaps a week long, no limits purge
Trump wanting to go back to 2O2O shows what a lame ass he really is. As regards auto regulation, he is doing the bidding of BigGov, Globull warming fraudsters, and the insurance mafia. Pathetic that so many fell for his MIGA schtick.
“I pledge that as a member of Congress, I will cosponsor and vote for the U.S. Term Limits amendment of three (3) House terms and two (2) Senate terms and no longer limit.” — Rep Eli Crane (AZ-2), age 45
https://eliforarizona.com/eli-crane-signs-term-limits-pledge/
Crane has said that in any case, he will leave the House after three terms on his own volition. Let’s see whether he sticks to this pledge.
This week he voted for the budget resolution, which squeaked through 218-216, based on a flimsy aspirational promise from the suave snake Mikey Johnson to seek more cuts. Yeah, right! Meanwhile Diogenes carries on his fruitless search for an honest politician in WARshington D.C.
1.5 trillion over ten years. Yippie. a drop in the proverbial bucket. A fraction of a fraction. The sooner these lying old actors exit stage left the sooner we can face the reality of mathematical certainty. The debt is unplayable and should be repudiated with extreme prejudice. Its the only way to reset the country and give it any chance of a future.
I’d like to see Crane run for governor. As opposed to the slimy rhino choices on offer. I’d say its past time for Az to have a true native in charge. Not going to count Raul Castro.
Once again the Pentagram gets a pass on accountability, too many people feeding off that gravy to ever bring it to an end.
Wow, 2020 standards, whoop-de-do.
Why does their have to be any standards? The free market (yes, I realize that doesn’t exist) will decide what is profitable and what isn’t. Let the auto manufacturers build what they want and see if it clicks with the public. Suffocating an entire industry to meet the “wants” of a few just bankrupts companies and robs the consumer of choice. Everything government touches they destroy. They acknowledge this fact, and yet, they still refuse to get out of the way.
I hear you, RG. How about going back farther than that? To when we were “allowed” to buy affordable, 8-cylinder engines, standard trans, the emissions crap be damned? How about a vehicle with no saaaafety crap on it? Ooops, sorry, those safety concerns are only for Amerikans. The rest of the world does not have to bow to the cult of safety and environmentalism on wheels. But it sure is nice to dream about what once was…
“All fed law need to be reverted back to 1950.. and assessed from there…”
I’d say 1910, perhaps even earlier (like 1850)
A fifty-year sunset clause would be a wonderful upgrade of ‘legal hygiene.’
But unfortunately, it would not fix the 14th, 16th and 17th amendments which fatally destroyed the republic. 🙁
While you’re at it, the 19th has to go too.
Et tu, Brute?
Get rid of the Federal Reserve Act and the Income Tax Act.
Feds need to be completely cleaned out and Constitutional Gov needs to be restored.
All fed law need to be reverted back to 1950.. and assessed from there. 😉
Make America great again.
OK
But why not 1750?
Rip the whole thing to shreds & start over again. We could have a convention. Technically the 1787 one was illegal, which illustrates one very important thing: laws don’t matter, as long as you get to be in charge. And so it was, and so it is, and so it ever shall be.
My parents claimed they lived through the best years in human history. I agree with them.
1950 USA sounds awfully nice to me. 🙂
Morning, AMC!
I can remember the ’70s and of course the ’80s. The freedom we had back then relative to the freedom we no longer have today is depressing to contemplate – especially because as each decade passes, fewer can remember it.
“laws don’t matter, as long as you get to be in charge.”
I do not often agree with Chairman Mao, but he was correct when he said, “Political power flows from the barrel of a rifle.”