April 28, 2006
Bush: I WANT control of CAFE (and a puppy)
President Bush today asked Congress for control of the CAFE standards... and a puppy like the one he was photographed with yesterday. So what IS CAFE? It's the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standard. Created in 1975, it establishes ridiculously easy targets for manufacturers to meet in determining fuel efficiency in automobiles produced in the US. It allows a manufacturer (let's say Ford) to make GIANT ASS TRUCKS (like the Expedition Sport Utility House) and smaller trucks (like the Escape Hybrid Sport Utility Box) and average the fuel economy to stay within the guides.
Bush is asking for this because "we need to have more fuel efficiencies and I'd really like to play with that dog somemore".
In Biloxi, Miss., Bush noted Congress was debating several energy-related concepts, "and one idea is to give me a capacity to raise CAFE standards on automobiles. "I encourage them to give me that authority. It's authority that I use for light trucks. And I intend to use it wisely if Congress would give me that authority," Bush said.
Congress, asked to comment, picked it's head up from the bar and mumbled something about 'gin collins' and that they'd 'never heard such a stupid idea'.
Posted by mcblogger at April 28, 2006 02:22 PM
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