Chris' Blog

Kiplinger, known for its advice to business owners, has a write-up of Federal changes to automobile regulations for how many miles your car must get per gallon of gas:

[The automobile manufacturers] also effectively face a mandate to rev up development of ultra-high-mpg electric plug-in cars and hybrids such as the Chevy Volt, which is set to roll out by December and uses a small gasoline-fueled motor to recharge an onboard battery. Advanced hybrids getting the equivalent of 100 mpg or more will be a must for automakers to reach a minimum fleet average of 60 mpg by 2025. Just to meet the 35.5 mpg standard for 2015, automakers likely will be producing around 1 million gasoline-electric and plug-in cars a year by 2015.

There are a few things that need to be pointed out.

1. Obama has increased the taxes of the people who "can" afford a new car every year, which means fewer cars will sell.
2. Warren Buffet believes the recession/depression will get worse again.
3. What will hurricane evacuations look like with a charge time of an hour (traditional charges require several hours)?
4. The Federal Government is bailing out our primary (government-created) flood insurer.

The world is complex and even our elected officials can not keep up with everything. We think we are smarter than we really are.

EDIT: Not MPH, MPG. One would think that I could read straight with English as my first language. Oops.