grokmedia | mediablog » cars http://blog.grokmedia.com grokking marketing, advertising, and design. Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:07:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= We’re from the Government, and we’re here to help. http://blog.grokmedia.com/2009/05/19/were-from-the-government-and-were-here-to-help/ http://blog.grokmedia.com/2009/05/19/were-from-the-government-and-were-here-to-help/#comments Tue, 19 May 2009 20:16:12 +0000 admin http://blog.grokmedia.com/?p=477 Like cars? I do. Enjoy them while you can, because today we’ve taken one step closer to making them all obsolete. You see, the ObamaNation today sent out a decree from Barack Agustus that all the world’s automobiles shall be taxed, to the tune of $1,300, in order to force the big, bad automobile manufacturers to build vehicles that will deliver 34MPG by 2011.

Pause with me for a nanosecond while we consider this latest bit of lunacy.

First Obama becomes Marketer-in-Chief for Chrysler, cutting their advertising budget in half. Today, he set nationwide fuel economy standards for cars and trucks sold in the USA.

If Obamanomics dictates that it’s in the country’s best interest to get the Federal Government out of the car business, they’ve got a funny way of going about it. The absolute last thing the auto industry needs right now is the government telling them to improve fuel standards. Nice idea, higher mileage cars. Bad idea to put the government in charge, and worse idea to do it right now.

Not much more to say about this – for now, other than to wonder just what else the ObamaNation has planned for us.

They sure are good at campaigning, though. Pity the election is over.

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