Forget that we screwed up healthcare, global warming is our next mission. (minimum wage, Obama)

[rikoshaprl]

Obama will do anything to distract from the dismal failure of his signature legislation. Last week it was income equality. Of course he has done more to make incomes more unequal. More people's hours are being reduced to part time to avoid Obamacare's mandates. There are less jobs today than when he took office. Healthcare costs have skyrocketed for the middle class. The rich have gotten richer thanks to his feds policy of buying financial assets. Yes, his fed. His idiotic solution: raise the minimum wage. That will reduce jobs and effect such a tiny segment of the population that it will do nothing.

This week the new distraction from Obamacare is global warming. He is mandating that trucks get better gas mileage by 2025. If he had any leadership ability he would advocate installations of natural gas infrastructure so that trucks could use USA produced natural gas instead of diesel fuel. The retrofit for the trucks is relativly simple and the reduction in emissions would be realized in a couple of years not 21 years like his idiotic program. Natural gas puts out less than 50% the emissions of diesel. Obama is mandating 50% reduction by 2025. Yet another fail for Obama.

One thing the GOP can learn from Obama is that he doesn't throw his base under the bus. If the GOP keeps ignoring their conservatve Tea Party base they are done.

[OICU812]

This is just more lunacy from Obama, he thinks he can just mandate something be a certain way and it magically transforms. Obama has been pushing the private sector to move to natural gas, he has no clue what this might do to the fluctuating natural gas market, nor what it might do to home heating prices.

Obama: Natural Gas Is ‘Bridge Fuel’ for U.S.

As to increasing the fuel mileage of semi-trucks and buses, he has a arrogant and pompous notion that saving on fuel costs completely escaped the minds of all the thousands of heavy truck operators.

Global Pollution and Prevention News: New Truck Emission Standards and Controls

“Through new fuel-efficiency standards for trucks and buses, we will not only reduce transportation’s environmental impact, we’ll reduce the cost of transporting freight,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood. “This is a win-win-win for the environment, businesses and the American consumer.”

[T-310]

LaHood is thoroughly and completely full of crap.

Food will go up in cost.

[evilnewbie]

Sounds like someone invested in natural gas... Because no rich company owns any gas reserves... I prefer a generalized approach that allows to go different ways and achieve the same outcome... Global warming is still bs though...