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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: RetiredNow who wrote (16980)4/17/2010 5:52:51 PM
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Obama has already moved the mpg requirement up by 10 mpg, the first change in decades. The GOP failed to do that when they were in power. Obama also spent $80B in the recovery bill on renewable energy, which included low cost loans to major car manufacturers to produce hybrid and electric vehicles.

The bottom line is that Obama has set the stage for a revolution in how we use oil and gas in our transportation sector. The effects won't be immediate because it takes a long time to ramp up and change over an industry as large as this. However, the investment is going to pay dividends to the American people for decades to come.

Bush and the GOP didn't do a damn thing but increase our consumption of oil in the last decade and fight $1 trillion in oil wars. You had your chance and your party failed to deliver. So stop whining now that you guys are out of power. Tough shit.

You are insanely naive. Child-like, actually.

Your response is that Obama spent $80B on "renewable energy" to produce hybrid and electric vehicles? Why? Why in HELL would he do THAT? Nissan already had multiple electrics in the pipeline. Without a nickel from the US government.

Government can't make these things happen. Markets do. We saw what government manipulation of markets brings with the so called "Cash for Clunkers" program -- a total, absolute waste of billions.
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