Morticians Association of America Endorses President Obama's Tough New Fuel Efficiency Standards

[heartlessvietboy]

Does anybody even know how an electric motor functions along with a Transmission? Think about it. How does Two axles, one Gasoline Transmission and the Other Elec. Motor, work together efficiently??

[Vegemighty]

Normally, I like Reasons videos but this is just stupid. Those lightweight cars are made out of compressed carbon fiber, its 1/3 the weight of regular steel and twice as strong. Also, even china has a higher fuel efficiency standard than the US, so we cant even sell our cars there. Fuel efficiency is really about efficiency in design Those fuel efficient cars will be the future with or without the regulations. Theyre essentially a minimum wage set below equilibrium, no reason for scare tactics

[7514328]

Sarah Palin looks hot in leather skirt. Google 'Sarah Palin in leather skirt".

[thepew]

I would think the more smart cars on the road would lower the risk of bodily harm for smart car accidents.

So the more smart cars on the road the safer they become.

[Knoss]

What about commercial trucks, busses, and say cars designed to hold more than two people.

[aFlyInDaOintment]

smart car is safer than a h2

[NgyuenKim]

of all the ways you can attack C.A.F.E. standard this is the least effective.

you could have pointed out that cafe standards dont reduce oil use.

instead you point of the one piece that has been shown in peer reviewed papers to be false. Car to car accidents are not a problem. Car to semi trucks are. and car to object accidents comprise so little of accident reports that that they are not worth arguing over

i expect better reasontv

[Knoss]

hmm, I agree; especially since CAFE standards make it harder to maintain HTSA standards and vice versa. Personally, I think the choice between safety or fuel economy should lay with the consumer.

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[ab1tchslap]

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[ab1tchslap]

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[ab1tchslap]

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[RightKnight]

If only it were just satire.

[chevydriver1123]

I hate those tiny little cars, there worse than the Mini's and they are extremely cramped. As for the fuel standards, get ready to see higher car prices people.

[ab1tchslap]

Bikes don't use any gas; according to the logic of the statist, auto companies should produce bicycles as well. This is corporate fascism.

[onthejon55]

Your exactly right. FUCK OBAMA

[ab1tchslap]

It is stupid for the government to force auto companies to sell hybrids. besides the fact it isn't safe to drive a hybrid today, it also is economically retarded to the auto industry and philosophically unjustifiable. The auto companies are in the business of selling cars for a profit, not to be environmentally friendly. And the government has no right to tell the auto companies how to run their businesses.

[cubano517]

Sweet! I can't wait for President Obama to finally get me a girlfriend!

[barrytrussell09]

Here's a thought,lets make freinds with the arabs again like the old days they sell us cheap oil.We use the green technology already available for petroleum,no body dies everybody happy.Except ofcourse the people who just want to watch the world burn.I say we put them in a really nice prison cable conjigul,a.c.pretty soon htey would forget there own name.Oh well,peace

[Galt425]

"We use the green technology already available for petroleum,no body dies everybody happy." Barry, did you watch the video? The point is that people WILL die as a result of this policy. And the statistics are pretty widely available about the increase in fatality of car accidents when CAFE standards were first introduced. I wouldn't have picked the example that reason did, but what makes you think that mandating use of less massive vehicles -won't- result in increased fatality, again?

[Nilopollis]

This is about oil, not safety. And i dont give a shit about safety. Also your right, no one will be forced to buy these cars so the video is a straw man.

[0bodobod0]

I doubt you'll understand this but when the government is involved there's always force.

[Galt425]

"no one will be forced to buy these cars so the video is a straw man. " force was Barry's argument not the videos... it was a comment that was teh straw man. Good to know you don't care about safety, when this plan fails (assuming force is actually not employed) you'll understand that others do.

[Nilopollis]

the video implies that we will be forced to use smart cars. Thats the whole point of it. And it will most certainly fail, because people, especially americans, dont give a shit about anything outside of their lifetime.

[barrytrussell09]

I agree I just have a strange way of saying it.I know I prefer my truck .But if for some reason the only vehicle available to me was the smaller unsafe vehicle,I would probably use it and hope for the best.Peace

[barrytrussell09]

control,control,control,lets just have more control.I was just telling the wife,"Honey,I'm sure I don't know how to run my own life,i think I'll just let "The Man" do it.

[FlailingJunk]

There is political pressure to overrate tiny cars.

[sixletter]

Knucklehead of the Day Award goes to

Nilopollis!

[fomastephanovitch]

I'm waiting for Obama's apparatchicks to re-release the trabant.

[Nilopollis]

"If we all drive tiny cars then we will surely die when struck by bigger cars"

Its an obvious straw-man with a seriously disingenuous motivation. We know that safety is not the motivation behind this. No one is saying that a 37mpg car would be small and unsafe. If we all were forced to drive them, then they wouldn't be unsafe at all now would they? How is masturbatory overconsumption helpful? It is the opposite of reason. Fuck you reason TV. Sometimes the planet comes first.

[takerdust]

Environmentalism is probably your new religion.

Hey, this planet is going to wipe humans off its surface in due time, and re-arrange the continents again.

[Galt425]

What are you typing about? ". If we all were forced to drive them... " is obviously impossible with our current political and legal system. Cars last for decades, you would (literally) have to force people to buy new cars. Will I be imprisoned for not affording that? Force here has connotations that (I hope) you haven't given enough thought to.

[AikidoSaintTKE]

Forced? You advocate forcing people to drive cars? It's bad enough that the government forces me to pay unconstitutional taxes. Forces troops to fight unconstitutional "wars." Forces me to support thousands of capable individuals who are imprisoned over marijuana possession. It also forces me to buy farm products grown by extremely inefficient American farmers through subsidies. The government use of force has ab out reached the limit that people are willing to abide.

[ab1tchslap]

I love you. Not in a gay way though. But I don't have anything against gays.

[Nilopollis]

Who said I advocate forcing people to do anything? Im a libertarian and agree with just about everything you said. I just dont have a problem with very very slightly improved emission standards. This ad is just fear mongering. We should legalize pot, and not subsidies farms. I dont have a problem with taxes because they usually give me all of mine back every year. And no one forced people to sign up for killing folks overseas.

[AikidoSaintTKE]

Sorry, perhaps I misread. However I think this, like the 128 days later are meant to have some truth but to be seen as fear mongering. As in an easily recognizable mockery of what Obama's administration does as well as Bush, and Clinton before them. As well as most every other Presidential Administration. I cannot be sure of that but assume it to be true. Being born in '84 and spending more time looking to the future, I am unsure of how much fear mongering there was in past administrations.

[VerbotenDingleberry]

If this puts more Democrats in deathtrap cars then I'm all for it. I'll be driving my 1968 Chevy Impala (right through them).

[Nexus974]

LOL!!!

Classic!!

[LeGioNoFZioN]

funny

[uche007us]

i think the real killers are the people who allowed SUV monsterositys to be on the road in the 1st place.

I have seen what an SUV can do to an avg sized sedan and its not pretty. The only solution i see here is for us to buy bigger and bigger trucks till the point cars are 14 ft tall and made of armored plates.

Tank > SUV

[Klatuu1]

One's feelings about small cars is not the salient point.

That they are inherently less safe and that the federal government is going to force you to buy them is the point.

The lure of abdicating personal responsibility in favor having someone else make difficult decisions for you may be attractive on the front end, but the long-term results will gravely disappoint you. You have been warned. Most of you will ignore it, but you can't say you weren't aware of it.

[Nilopollis]

Hey...yeah! I want a RPG too, but the damn socialist govt. doesn't believe in personal responsibility apparently!

[FlailingJunk]

Only of you accept Daimler's PR regardless of other little things, like the laws of physics.

[theugaa]

Sorry but this is stupid. There is 10000 and 1 reason why I dont like these government programs but saying that ecocar = dangerous car is pure demagogy. Ads like this is what creates the idea that people who are against government subsidizing eco programs are cynical oil lobby.

[FlailingJunk]

Your internal organs can only handle so much acceleration. A car with less mass will experience more acceleration in a crash. Thats a fact.

[bertly71]

Great video. Direct and to the point. The unintended consequences of big government solutions to everyday issues.

[hnsbro]

meh - not impressed.

[Nilopollis]

hey reason tv

Fuck you all in your stupid asses

If everyone had a little car they wouldnt have as bad of accidents now would they? You just want us to buy gigantic wasteful shit we dont need, to keep some imaginary "economy" doing well. Fuck off, the earth comes first. Im fine on my bike thank you. I'm unsubscribing to this shit. It puts capitalism above all else as the standard of reason. You besmirch the word.

[icemilitia]

I'm a start littering now.

[ferrozm]

If you apply reason you would realize that capitalism would be more conducive to creating cleaner energy than government mandates. Government can't save us from global warming it will resort to tyranny. Letting entrepreneurs come up with cleaner technology will.

[freesk8]

Great video!

Free Minds and Free Markets!

[AKlover]

I love it!!!!

[666Qtip666]

Hey i hate Obama as much as the next capitalist but do you really have to dis smart cars. i happen to like them

[aeuiono]

What exactly is smart about unsafe?

[aeuiono]

Wow, if only I said that, your rage would've been justified.

I was just thinking that "smart cars" don't sound very smart. I think you'd agree that motorcycles aren't smart either. But I have no problem with someone driving a motorcycle or a "smart car".

I just think the name "smart car" is off, and they are being pushed upon the market by Statists, all in the name of what is supposedly "smart".

"Smart" is the new "patriotic" or "compassionate".

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[666Qtip666]

well i don't know exactly how you have come to the conclusion that they are pushing them into the market place, they don't give any tax credits on them because they are not hybrids. And given the parent company of smart is mercedes im sure they are extremely well engineered. In reality it is just another "choice" for people to have, "choice"of course we all know is absolutely essential for freedom, for without choice you are not free to do anything. choice makes people more free.

[HowdyCallmeDaddy1]

Rubbish? And how is this "rubbish" exactly? I guess you never saw a "soviet style" sh*tty little compact. That is what they are trying to do. Socialism. Forcing us all to drive sh*tty little compacts that we buy from a "national car company" government subsidized cars for the global warming HOAX! NASA etc. data from last year shows that the Earth actually cooled. China had the coldest winter in over 100 years. But dissenting scientist are not even allowed in the debates and the media propagates.

[gmakepiece]

HowdyCallmeDaddy1: How can U so cruelly mock government intervention via state control? Only yesterday I received my first government issue food, music, car, housing and clothes. Sure, I ordered the Soylent RED, I prefer a tune without instructions for CORRECT THINKING, a non-cardboard car, a non-echoing cubicle & a suit I can get out of..but the guy next door has the same rubbi..progressive egalitarianism, so I FEEL GREAT. REALLY GREAT! Colonel Robert Neville blogspot com thepeoplescube com

[CrashGames2108]

Funny, but you have to admit that this is bordering on propaganda. IF YOU DON'T AGREE, YOU WILL DIE AN EARLY DEATH!

[MooseOfReason]

I agree. Not every "energy efficient" car is as light or seemingly dangerous as a Smart Fortwo.

[HowdyCallmeDaddy1]

Propaganda or satire rooted in a fundamental truth? Seems soon we will all be driving "soviet style" piece of sh*t compacts. National cars like national health care. Imagine that you have a pain, you apply for a appointment, and bureaucrat puts you on a list, you wait, wait and six months later you get an appointment but they tell you the cancer has metastasized and your going to die. What they dont tell you is that government is slow and if you had gotten tested sooner you would have lived.

[CrashGames2108]

The philosophy isn't the issue, it's the presentation.

[highonhayek]

Agree.

This is teasing and smearing on the level of the radical film that tried to depict Somalia as a "libertarian paradise." The message is different but the tactics are the same.

ReasonTV swings, misses.

[Socksee]

haha excellent !

[harryogre]

LOL

5 stars!

[NevadaPolicyRI]

Genius!

[darkwhitedirewolf]

The hearse was not a mini smart car. Maybe put a trailer on a moped for a hearse?

I work in a gym, the early morning power lifters would enjoy packing me to the graveyard and tossing me in a pit. Eco friendly and fun funeral.

[disturbed119]

wtf is this shit. like regular cars are not as deadly

i disagree with obama on many things but this is just fucking nitpicking

[hakojo]

Actually, hybrid cars and what have you are often lighter and more likely to flip over than other vehicles. My mother (who usually drives a 2000-something VW Passat station wagon) was in control of a Prius on a road trip once and actually told me that the car was so light that it felt unsafe.

[manicmetropolis]

this is great lol

[FrancisPayne]

At least he's creating jobs ...lol.

[HeadTater]

Could be costing jobs too. With the Big Three out of the picture, Obama and his buddies would have plenty of more sheep place under the control of the welfare system. But of course, with less workers, you need less jobs. The problem fixes itself.

[MooseOfReason]

Yes, would you like to be a gravedigger or an undertaker?

[max1media]

Love it 5 stars

[bittergunowner12]

Funny as hell.

[truthsabre7]

Great...just great. Thx!