Mitt Romney on Fuel Economy: 2005

[kstompaint]

The CAFE restrictions are as ridiculous as the "scienc" that they're based on.

Allow the Iraqis to compensate us for their freedom in oil. Drill ANWR. Build refineries. These are the solutions.

Romney, like the rest of them, will say what is best when it's convenient for his cause (self empowerment).

[PreservingLiberty]

If we elect this CEO to be our next president you can forget about civil liberties. corporate fascism is destroying us, taking us to war, overspending, and keeping us in debt to our owners through media consolidation, lobbyist and beaurocrats, and people like this guy.

[bjalder26]

You know what this video is missing? Romney saying he's for CAFE standards in any way.

[surfzalot2012]

RON PAUL!

[paulwagner]

Romney talks out of both sides of his mouth on every issue -- why should this one be any different? He's the new Bush.

[GreatDarkSpot]

Mitt Headroom is so plastic. He was speaking the truth here, but now he spins a different tune for fear of losing votes in Michigan.

[rijderunner]

Washington DC is definitely broken. And John McCain is part of the problem. Rather than fix the cost of health care, John McCain's priority was campaign finance reform. McCain consistently punishes Americans. Even his judgment during a recession was flawed. Receipts dropped to 16.5% of GDP in 2003. The deficit was part of the recession! Tax cut it!

[rijderunner]

John McCain once again wants to punish Americans with bad legislation. Pigouvian taxes are a better option that forces foreign oil to share in the burden of gasoline consumption. Mitt Romney knows this and his advisors are some of the best in the world like Greg Mankiw.

[rijderunner]

The publication, The Economist, point blank called McCain illiterate and double talker on fiscal and environmental policy. And they are right, that old-ego-nutball, RINO, McCain can not even manage a $30M campaign without running it into the ground.

[jordanhef]

The McCain campaign is desperate. Mitt isn't saying we shouldn't have more efficient cars. He's saying that McCain's "I know better than everyone else" big-government regulaton is NOT the way to do it. This video says nothig different from what he's saying now. McCain is a big-tax, big-government liberal. His time came and went.

[fafafa3040]

Is there any issue he hasn't contradicted himself on?

[rwb8282]

I'll gladly answer that rhetorical question. NO! This is a person with not an ounce of integrity. It's not so much that he changes his position as he never truley buys in to one. Like a robot responding the its environment, Romney will just spews out whatever he sees to be in his best interest. Going from MA Senate race to Governor race to Presidential race is bound to change where his interest lies.

[rijderunner]

Good for Mitt. He recognized the problem of foreign oil while he fixed health care in his state.

Now a contradiction is "McCain's Unlikely Ties to K Street: 32 Lobbyists Aiding Industry's Longtime Foe" by Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and John Solomon, Washington Post Staff Writers. Let's make those Bush tax cuts permanent--McCain deserves the Presidency. Environmental policy—sure bundle up the cash for McCain.

[5M1L3]

Actually this sounds just like what he has been saying in his campaign. I think it would go over well in Michigan and anywhere in the country because it is true.