The American Dream...a good job, a nice house, and a nice car that you can load the whole family into and go for a drive. Well, with a speech earlier this week, President Obama took one more step toward destroying the American Dream by mandating higher mileage standards for automakers. The premise of the law is that the automakers have to have an average fleet gas mileage of 39 mpg by 2016. To do this, automakers will have to manufacture a lot of smaller cars, meaning the SUV's, Mini-vans, and big cars will be harder for the average American to buy.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not against higher gas mileage. In fact, I'm all for it. But, I am against the federal government mandating a standard that is going to fundamentally change the market. If people want to buy a car that gets 10 mpg, they should be free to do that. If people want to buy a car that gets 50 mpg, they should be free to do that. The point is, this country is supposed to be free, so let us keep our freedom to buy the car we want!
It's obvious Americans don't want to buy the current vehicles that get higher mileage...if they did, there would be fewer SUV's on the road and many more Honda Civics. We Americans like our big cars...like I said, it's part of the American dream...a dream that Barack Obama apparently wants to destroy...one speech at a time.
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