President Obama Signs Environmental Memoranda

John Boehner: neanderthal in chief.

It’s good to see this, especially with all this bail out money going to the auto industry. It should be mandiated that if we are going to save American Auto, they have to get their act together and build a real car, as opposed to yet another concept, that gets super gas mileage and provide it at a competitive rate (not excessive for being a new technology-auto lost that advantage when they took taxpayer payouts).

Auto Manufacturers have, for the past 30 years, thrown around smoke whenever this topic has been raised (see posts here for good examples–just watch). One has to ask though: when auto manufacturers say “we can’t do this,” are they simply saying “Our American workers are too STUPID to figure out higher fuel efficiency”? Or is it that they’re protecting the oil industry? I for one think my fellow Americans in the auto industry are plenty smart to be able to figure out the better fuel efficiency. So what’s going on? Hmmmm….

Boehner (R-Ohio) needs to understand that the American public will NO LONGER SUPPORT Detroit’s automakers designing and building fuel-inefficient cars. It’s OVER. The FUTURE is electric and alternative fuel cars. It’s OVER labor unions. The FUTURE is pay for performance and NO PAY for non-performance. Got it? You’d better get it quick.

What a brilliant idea! Lets make things more costly for the auto industry, so government can continue bailing them out at the tax payers expense.
Spending in this country is about to get out of control. When all this spending Obama is trying to pass doesn’t work…a year from now…the donkies are STILL going to blame Bush. The spending isn’t going to work…it’s just going to create dependency and put us further in debt.

The Republicans are truly the “natting naboos of negativism”…a phrase coined by that true Republican…Spiro Agnew. They are not into solving problems – they are only trying to insure getting power in 2010 and 2012. What better way than playing “rope-a-dope (Muhammed Ali used this tactic of stalling and tiring his opponents) with the Obama policies. Truly a party of emptiness right now.

GREAT JOB OBAMA!!! You are such a “breath of fresh air” literally!!! Keep up the great work….we are sooooo glad to have you in office making sound decisions for the better of everyone. Good Riddance to Bush and his crooked oil loving cronies!!!!

“4 trillion on this war alone”
Making up numbers? The Congressional Research Serice puts it at $657B inclusing state and Va through June 2009. And that number includes around $100B for non war DoD spending.

I have to say, form the common citizen…It is great that they are even trying to get the auto industry to make cars with such wonderful fuel efficiency. But, who is going to be able to afford these cars, huh? While I am spending large amounts of money on fuel costs- I still cannot afford the $300-400 a month car payment for a new car. Who is going to help us, the “little” people afford these more efficient cars? Are they going to force us to buy new and go into mass debt? As well as finding financing for a new car…The whole system needs a good kick in the pants if any of us are going to profit from this decision. It is not like most of us are holding onto the extra $200,000 required to buy a new car and just waiting for that opportunity to spend it! Most of us are struggling to figure out how to get to work everyday to make the money that will go to fuel in the tank to get to work the next day. Someone really has to give politicians some perspective here.

Obama is sweeping in a new era of responsibility and accountability! Something the Bush admin clearly tried to dodge behind their “executive privilege” monikor!

indithinker…I won’t deny Bush spent way too much money. I wouldn’t consider Bush conservative at all his second term. Bush was successful keeping us safe and for most his presidency was accountable for a great economy…the last two years have sucked (not just because of Bush…Bush is a small reason for our economic failure). With regards to four trillion for this war…I’m not sure how you came up with that #. Iraq over the last seven years has cost about 84 billion. Lets not forget how many jobs this war has saved. Not sure were the other three point some trillion comes from…fuzzy math I guess.
If you think Bush spending was crazy…which it was…wait! The more our government prints money the less your dollar is worth…to me Obama will be responsible for the biggest tax increase in our history. Cost of goods are about to go through the roof which will be a huge tax on the American people. This non-sense about the middle class and poor getting a tax break is beyond my comprehension…everything is going to cost much more, so I would much rather give up the tax break, and let the dollar in my pocket be worth as much a year from now as it it today. Unfortunately, this isn’t going to happen…so four years from now when you’re asking yourself if you are better off today than you were four years ago, and you’re saying no…this is why.

I hope the states do it as a pack. I hate to see a series of different standards. Maybe one that the rest of the nation can follow.

The future of the auto industry just got a helluva lot bleaker. The decision for government to permit states to have their own standards is about as dumb as the boutique fuel formulation which keeps prices artificially high. Of course, both are due to the incompetence of government who know zip about cars or energy – with the exception of green sound bites.
However, the market for older cars – ones that people ACTUALLY want to drive – along with aftermarket parts just got primed for a big business boost.

Cleaner air is a good thing, but it’s not going to be free. The reason that gas is more expensive in California is because of the clean air act current imposed in this stae. It’s probably worth it but get ready to pay.

Repbulicans in Congress continue to play partisan politics while the economy crumbles. Obama has the votes – he should just steamroll those fools once and fo all. Why do Dems always try to play nice with Republicans who hate them? No mercy. Obama needs to crush the GOP and their failed policies once and for all if we’re going to move forward as a nation. Failed Republican policies and ideology only make us weaker.

In the Stimulus Plan who gets the jobs? American citizens or illegal aliens? What provisionas will be made to prevent contractors from hiring illegal aliens to do the work?

What a piece of nonesense. Now that Obama is beholden to the enviros we get this from Washington. Feel good laws that do nothing to clean the air or reduce our dependency but it makes the sheep feel good. It’s like the increase in the minumun wage: if you want to get rid of poverty, why not make the minimum wage $25? Why? Because everyone knows it is feel good legislation that does nothing to increase the standard of living and actually hurts those on the bottom economic ladder.

Yes just keep making cars with junk coming out of them….then instead of spending money on the clean air, we can spend it on dr.’s bills for cancer.
President Obama is doing the right thing.

This why Obama got elected. This is what the majority of Americans want.. much tougher emission and fuel standards in cars.
I hear a lot of whining from the typical neo-con nitwit crew, as expected. However no manufacturer is going to make numerous cars for different states. They’ll make one car that surfices the toughest standards.
For the neo-cons who are now upset for the auto idnustries survival… didn’t you yahoos want to get rid of the UAW, The way you whine you would think you actually cared about people, and we know that is not true…

Give people an incentive to have fewer children or at least remove the incentives to have more children, thus reducing population growth and the pollution levels can be reduced. As long as we make heros of people with 18 kids, forget controlling pollution, it ain’t gonna happen.

John Boehner and his Republican ilk are like DUI suspects who insist they would be fine behind the wheel if they just had a few more drinks!

Don’t you people get it? Obama & the Dems want the US carmakers to go out of business. Then they (the Goverment) will “have” to take over the car factories, hire all “government workers” and then produce cute little 3 cylinder cars that will meet the 35 mpg standards. Forget safety when you hit something with these little ‘green” cars.

Thank you, thank you, thank you President Obama. And to all of you who really don’t get it, the car manufacturers won’t produce different cars for different states, we’ll all get cleaner cars. And we will actually be making cars the rest of the world will want to buy. Anyone who sees this as a negative for American business really needs to turn their brains on a bit more. And had we really listened to those “enviros”, we’d have clean fuel, technology we could export, houses that made sense, a bunch more REAL jobs and a lot fewer problems with our economy. I’m celebrating.

I still don’t understand how enforcing stricter emission and fuel economy laws will cause more job losses. Seems like they would need to hire more people to adhere to these requirements. Can somebody explain to me please?

This why Obama got elected. This is what the majority of Americans want.. much tougher emission and fuel standards in cars.
I hear a lot of whining from the typical neo-con nitwit crew, as expected. However no manufacturer is going to make numerous cars for different states. They’ll make one car that surfices the toughest standards.
For the neo-cons who are now upset for the auto idnustries survival… didn’t you yahoos want to get rid of the UAW, The way you whine you would think you actually cared about people, and we know that is not true…
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Perhaps you did not read the legislation. The whole IDEA is to make “numerous cars for different states”.
This legislation is NOT generated to help the “people”. It is generated to satisfy Obama’s constituency.
Well, I have a bit of news for that constituency… and for YOU. The average temperature of the earth hasn’t risen a fraction of a degree above 59 deg F. since 1998, even though CO2 rate rose. The evidence isn’t even there to support the idea that CO2 raises the earth’s temperature. It seems YOUR party does quite a lot of “whining”.
The only thing Obama’s legislation will do is kill millions of jobs and raise more taxes.

This is called a cold shower, a slap in the face, somebody yelling in your ear “WAKE UP!!!”
This is a new era, folks – it ain’t make-believe and we’re living in the here and now; better get with the program and quit the bellyachin’.

We have nobody to blame but ourselves. Check it out: because you happen to be great at shooting a ball through a hoop, you make millions of dollars in a year whereas thousands/millions simply survive to make a living within the middle class scurry of 9-5. Why do you think this is? It’s because we’re stupid! We spend millions upon millions of dollars for our own entertainment and pleasures, but neglect investing that money into our society where it can do the most practical good, like health care, industry, medicine, education – just to name a few. Yet, we want to point the blame at “something” out there, the “government” or “somebody” because they are supposed to make things work while we continue to live our over-indulgent lives. Wake up! We, the citizens of these United States, are each responsibile for this economic failure! We all want to live well and there’s nothing wrong with that. Entertainment and certain pleasures are a must to stay sane in our complex world. But, there is a point at which we must understand balance! We are greedy, selfish who want and want and want, thinking little of how we are collectively wasting our minds and resources thereby draining our economy. Think about it. We need balance within our society so that the distribution of our wealth and resourses can spread out proprotionately to cover our economy NEEDS. This will lead us to successfully compete in a 21st century global economy. We can’t expect “others” to fix things; each of us must take responsibility for the state of our union and to act responsibly to maintain its economy.

Good for you, President Obama – don’t listen to the sour grapes from the righwing Republican losers who got us into this mess in the first place with 8 years of complete inaction. The GOP is out of answers, so they fall back on thier usual tactics of complaining and obstructing progress. The hell with them. They had their chance to run things their way and they blew it big time. That’s why they were chucked out of power. Obama has a REAL mandate for change and he needs to ignore the feeble whining of the GOP and act aggressively before it’s too late!

Chuck
Well said and i do not disagree with your thoughts
but
Who the heck are you to proscribe how I live

Believe that time has come for the auto makers to respond to the real problem that exists. If government has to bail them out because of their own failed policies, then we taxpayers need representation and demand that they build fuel efficent vehicles which has caused them to fail in the first place. The foreign car companies have overtaken us due to this problem.. No, Obama is right on target here.

The single most important item that PEOB can do is stop the flow of our resources to the oil exporting nations.
I did not support him in the general election, however I will stand by and support him in this, our most pressing and important agenda, bar none. When we whip this, everything else will fall into place. NO MASS deficet every year.
We have the technology right now and more to come in the field of electric
and batteries.
Go President Obama! How can I help.

Boy, for being the party of choice. The Democrats sure do their darndest to limit what people and business can do privately. All of their “my way, is the right way” is BS. Their dogooder mentality always ends up doing more damage than good. !

Smith… I never perscribed. I suggested. My point is that you can live how you feel is best for you and so can I. But don’t complain when are alternative means to the same outcome. People don’t want to give up their conviences and comforts. That’s human…I wouldn’t want to give up my sofa that I sleep very well on while watching my big screen… But I’m also not complaining that I paid a pretty price for it either. I had the choice of a smaller TV and keeping my older sofa. If you want these things that you don’t need…then great. But don’t complain about the cost once gas prices go back up. Adapt… I spent over 10 years in the Marine Corps… There was a saying that a Marine isn’t happy unless he’s complaining. But you know what…We’d find a way to get the job done. It’s amasing how comfortable a Corrolla is after driving around in a Humvee for 7 months in the dustbowl. It’s all a matter of perspective. I don’t NEED an SUV… I want one. But I’ve held off on getting one because it’s not economical or practical in the long run. It’s time we got the job done America. We’ve fallen behind the rest of the world.

More jobs lost today. More jobs lost tommorrow. republicans dont have anything to worry about, because Democrats dont have a clue. And before you respond just ask yourself one thing in 3 months did your pay go up if not you VOTED wrong?

The hoax is running out of time. If the current solar trends continue, and no one thinks they won’t, it will soon be so cold, the snow piled so high, the glaciers growing so fast, the sea ice getting so think, that Al Gore will be the only one left on the planet who doesn’t know Al Gore is an idiot.
Pay more in taxes to the government, so government scientist can fake the data and pretend to control the weather. The perfect scam.
Follow-up question — How do the magic tax beans fix the climate.

And BTW Ox…you do realize that we are in the state we are in becuase of de-regulation right. That is a conservative value…Not a liberal one. It takes years for laws and actrions by the government to effect everyday people as far as the economy goes. This recession started well before the election. But by your arguement, becuase the POTUS hasn’t fixed it since the election where he hadn’t any power at all…it’s all his fault. Very narrow minded I must say again.

I liked it better when oily Bush was kissing the butts of the Saudi’s and holding hands with them as the Saudi’s continued their middle eastern kingdom, non-democratic government and repression of women and democratic values.
I think the Bush family even went into business with them – on a massive scale. That’s the kind of wholesome morality and spirit we need in America.

Love it–the Republicans want to stand up for higher oil consumption and more pollution. That’s their jobs program: bad cars.
Meanwhile, Obama wants to make American industry more competitive, decrease oil consumption and improve air quality by setting sensible standards–a win-win-win.
Is there any question which party is looking to the future?

I am mystified how the Americans have got away with making such poorly designed and built cars for so long.
It is astounding how such large engines can be designed to produce such little power.
How is it that the nation that got to moon cannot design a car that corners properly?
I think you will find that it is much cheaper to build better cars than go off and fight for the remaining oil and you will kick yourselves that you didn’t do it before.
Three cheers for Barak Obama, you lot may start to be a little more descerning in your life choices.

“Forcing American car companies to make more efficient cars is the only thing that can save them.”
Yes they lose money on every small car but if they sell more of them that should help then turn the corner.
Is it any wonder these Democrat’s have never had a real job.

Is this the same Obama who will be giving our tax dollars to the auto industry to bail them out? Now he wants to put new restrictions on them that will increase their costs (costs that will be passed on to the consumer)? Nice double talk. Of course, Obama owes payback to the global warming zealots who helped finance his buying of the White House.

You know what costs millions of Americans jobs in the auto industry? MAKING INEFFICIENT STYLE-BACKWARD CARS, BOEHNER.

Remember the Geo Metro? I got 45-50 miles per gallon running around town with that thing. While I’m not sure how it’s emissions were, I don’t get why the fuel efficiency can’t be required sooner, while working on the emissions parts. Part of me believes a conspiracy,between car makers and the oil companies. The oil companies, thepoor dears, aren’t making enough profit -have they reached the trillions profit yet? Poor babies going bankrupt with only billions of profit. Sorry my sarcasm is showing. But seriously. I’d love to know how I can help make a difference in getting the oil company regulated so they can’t make so much obscene profit off of everyday people who are hard at work scratching out a living.

It’s so nice to actually see legislation being passed and orders being signed for once. It’s also nice to see a president who’s actually interested in being president who’s working hard and not worried about trying to rack up as many vacation days as possible. And John Boehner needs to just disappear. He sure does obstruct but what does he have to offer?