If Detroit wins the CAFE battle, does America lose the war?
Can America survive a couple more decades of foreign oil dependency?So, the Senate has already watered down their original CAFE plan, and more diluting should be expected in the House, as Detroit-influenced lobbyists storm the halls of Congress. When all is said and done, you'll probably be able to drive a fleet of Hummers through the CAFE loopholes.
Obviously, Detroit has no choice. When around 70 percent of your business comes from selling the most fuel-inefficient vehicles, the phrase 'fuel economy' becomes fighting words. Besides, isn't Detroit just trying to protect American jobs and an important part of America's economy?
Yet, are those jobs more important than National Security? When a line can be drawn from the first Persian Gulf War to Bin Laden to 9/11 to Afghanistan back to Iraq because of foreign oil dependency, isn't it time to start asking serious questions and to take serious actions?
Labels: CAFE, Foreign Oil Dependency, fuel economy
posted by Dahcredyns at
8:54 AM
2 Comments:
I'm not sure it matters how tough CAFE is. If gas prices continue to increase at 10%/year, we will be paying about $6.50 a gallon in ten years. Until the US starts to use less gas, prices will increase because the rest of the world will also be using more gas. Things will change eventually as evidenced by the Prius. Who would have thought that the Prius would be a top 10 seller when it was first introduced? I think we have reached a tipping point. Detroit must change or they will die!
I just wish we could be a little more proactive as a nation. Obviously this is a complex issue, but is it too Utopian, too naive, to think every once while we could try to do the right thing, rather than just the profitable/economical thing?
And, truthfully, I believe that doing the right thing - ending foreign oil dependency or bust - would actually be profitable in the long run.
Is American greed consuming America?
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