Engel introduces “flex fuel” legislation
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U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, D-Bronx, announced today the introduction of a bill that would require half of all cars made in the U.S. be manufactured as “flexible fuel” vehicles, meaning they could run on gasoline, alcohol or a combination of the two.
Vehicles manufacturers would have until 2012 to meet this goal before it rises to 80 percent of U.S.-made cars in 2015.
Engel said in a news release issued today that these vehicles would typically cost about $100 more to make than a gas-only car.
Engel is a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. This Open Fuel Standards Act was also sponsored by U.S. Reps. Jack Kingston, R-GA, Steve Israel, D-NY, and Bob Inglis, R-SC.
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Idiotic.
If folks want to buy “flex-fuel” cars, they will and Engel plan is unneccssary.
If folks don’t want them, they won’‘t buy them.
US manufacturers will be sitting with warehouses filled with “flex fuel ” cars offered for sale at below cost. To stay in business manufacturers and dealers will focus (most likely) on high margin luxury vehicles.
US manufacturers would remove themselves from the market for low margin compact vehicles and encourage car makers in Albania (an Engel favorite), Korea, China, and India.
GOD BLESS AMERICAN PATRIOTS!!!
STOP TRADE WITH ENEMY NOW!
Oil is a weapon, we should not wait even 1 year
so the legislation is NOT ENOUGH!
WE NEED THIS MANDATE NOW AND EXACUTIVE ORDER to CONVERT ALL EXISTING ENGINES TO FLEX IN 3 month
Mandating that car makers offer flex fuel cars is a good first step, but, last I checked, is there any place outside of the Corn Belt where you can get ethanol/E85? Make gas stations start carrying it, too. Otherwise, it’s worthless outside the Corn Belt. (BTW, there are only 3 E85 stations in all of NY State.)
On a related note, McCain put his pedal extremity in his vocal orifice again today with this one about his energy “plan”...
“We have to drill off-shore. The oil executives say that within a couple of years we could be seeing results of it.”
Why is it that I get the feeling that the results we’ll be seeing will have more to do with oil company profits than any relief for us? Uh, John, you might not want to use oil execs as your big endorsers of your “plan.”
BTW, this is the same “Plan” that Kieran Lalor has been spouting. Just as bogus as McSame’s.
Let me make it clear for any morons actually buying what these two are selling- the US uses 20 million barrels of oil per day, we IMPORT 12 million barrels per day. Opening drilling offshore, or in ANWR will take 10-20 years to see any oil at all, and when we do, it’ll only reduce our imports by maybe 5%. US gasoline consumption is just under 10 million barrels per day, just for driving.
Want to end oil imports? The only sure way is to stop using oil. Period.
Put THIS in yer pipe and smoke it- Jimmy Carter, say what you will about him, was saying all this stuff 30 years ago, and pretty much nobody wanted to listen. If we had stated moving towards energy conservation and alternatives to oil back then, we’d already be 20 years ahead of where we are now. Instead, we made fun of him, and elected a bunch of likeable guys who told us what we wanted to hear.