I give this proposal an "F." Not content with capping carbon dioxide emissions and crippling our economy, President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency now wants to grade cars. Some stuff you just can't make up.
From Wall Street Journal:
The government proposed labeling each new passenger vehicle with a letter grade from A to D based on its fuel efficiency and emissions, part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to promote electric cars and other advanced-technology vehicles.And it just so happens that government-owned General Motors just unveiled an expensive tax subsidized car, the Chevrolet Volt.
The proposed new rules, released jointly Monday by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Transportation Department, would be the most substantial change in 30 years to the familiar price-and-mileage labels affixed to the windows of new cars at dealerships.
Currently, the labels must show how many miles per gallon a car gets and its estimated annual fuel cost. Under the proposed changes, a new label design would carry a large letter grade assigned by regulators.
Under the system, the only cars that would receive an A-plus, A or A-minus would be electrics and plug-in hybrids, the government said.
Who else gives the EPA grades an "F." Well, the readers of car site Edmunds.com, who know a lot more about automobiles than I do, hate them. So does USA Today.
Make that grade an F-.
In conclusion: Stink, stank, stunk.
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