Marathon Pundit: Another look at EPA car letter-grade craziness

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Another look at EPA car letter-grade craziness

I still can't the thought of of my head that the EPA is considering giving letter grades to cars based upon fuel efficiency. We are not peasants who need guidance from the "enlightened ones." But the "peasants" are rebelling as we all know.

From Publius Forum:

But this new letter grade idea is yet another example of the Obama administration's penchant to pick which industries he wants to succeed and which he wants to fail, a role that no president has a right to involve himself in.

Worse it treats the consumer like a child. The current stickers offer all sorts of information that reflects an auto's mpg rating both for city and highway driving, as well as a dollar amount of the estimated annual cost of fuel, among other information. But the new stickers would lack that more detailed info. Apparently Obama feels American car buyers aren’t intelligent enough to understand the current stickers.

This whole idea is little else but more Obama nanny state, big government intervention in the market and one cannot help but wonder if it's all meant to benefit GM, now known across the country as "Government Motors"?