Now Obama Wants to Kill Off the Long-Haul Rig & Trucking Businesses
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, August 12, 2011, 4:32 AM
As if he hasn’t done enough already to destroy the greatest economy on earth, Barack Obama on Tuesday passed legislation to kill the American long-haul rig and work truck businesses.
Flanked by truck manufacturers and trucking industry executives, President Obama signed a first-of-its-kind order in May 2010 clearing the way for medium- and heavy-duty trucks to meet more stringent fuel-economy targets. (CA Transport)
Obama’s latest regulations on the trucking industry will force thousands of long-haul truckers out of business and will significantly increase expenses on all trucking companies.
The Daily Press reported:
President Obama announced the first-ever fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas standards for long-haul rigs, work trucks, and other heavy duty vehicles Tuesday, the second mileage pact with manufacturers in less than a month.
The regulations call for reductions on fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by 2018 of 9 to 23 percent, depending on the type of vehicle. Trucks and other heavy vehicles make up only 4 percent of the domestic vehicle fleet, but given the distance they travel, the time they spend idling and their low fuel efficiency, they end up consuming about 20% of all vehicle fuel, according to the Union of Concerned Scientists.
Experts say that a 20 percent reduction in heavy vehicle emissions would boost fuel efficiency to an average of 8 miles per gallon from 6 miles now.
The announcement comes less than two weeks after Obama and the country’s automakers unveiled new fuel economy rules for passenger vehicles that would boost fleet-wide average gas mileage to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, from about 27.8 miles per gallon now.
The success of the Obama fuel efficiency program, some of it hard-won through difficult talks with car makers, stands in sharp contrast to the failure of other environmental initiatives, like climate change legislation…
…The new standards would increase the cost of heavy duty trucks, which cost tens of thousands of dollars, by several thousand dollars each, depending on the vehicle. But the administration and the manufacturers’ group estimated that the higher costs would be recouped very quickly, often within a year or two, because of savings at the pump, one of the biggest expenses for any cargo or trucking business.
Obama won’t be happy until the economy is in complete ruins.
2012 can’t get here soon enough.
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shawn commented:
Who gives a rip honestly? Are you seriously that mad about tTruckers? They sit in a truck and drive it.
Granny commented:
“Obama passed legislation”??? NO. Obama cannot pass legislation. Either the Congress passed this legislation and bears some portion of the blame, or Obama used an Executive Order to make an end run around Congressional authority. Which one is it?
backhoe commented:
Everything you get is moved at some point, by a truck.
Do you really want to spend more of your money for everything you buy, including gasoline & heating oil?
Remember Duh!1′s “necessarily skyrocket?” words?
Impeach the bastard.
cedarhill commented:
Always a silver lining. Those huge windmill blades just won’t be able to get up any hills if this is enforced. The Greenies might cheer, however, to see 100 mile long series of tractor rigs trying to push it. Just think of the traffic jams those things will cause. Back to walking and killing squirrels for food.
Militant Conservative commented:
Shawn my neighbor is a trucker. Hauls heavy
Construction equipment all over Georgia. He’s
The only driver left out of twenty due to Obama.
You are a little retard that does not know how
The economy works, cranial rectal inversion.
Powder is dry
Little David Puddy commented:
This is unbelievable. If you look at the want ads in any local or regional newspaper in the country, the most prevelant if not the only jobs available are those for long haul truck drivers. Now douchebag wants to destroy the only industry where there seems to be an abundance of Jobs. Absolutely unbelievable. Could it be any more obvious that the man is trying to destroy the country. Man do I hate this a$$hole.
Militant Conservative commented:
OBTW all of your food in a grocery store comes via
TRUCKS. Shawn with a brain of a prawn.
Probably a soros media matters robot.
MDd commented:
They always said America would be destroyed from within.
jerrylud commented:
im a truck driver i drive a company truck and we havnt gotten a raise sense obama took office and his epa is pushing the global warming crap thats just what these new regs are all about you think things are expensive now at the store give it time we will be on our knees if we dont stop obama and his epa period
P. Aaron commented:
From the article, it appears that Obama signed ‘the first of it’s kind order’. So it seems a executive decree rather than a debated piece of legislation.
More Chavez’ing from el Presidente’.
carmen commented:
My whole biz is based on trucking – drivers load, drive, unload & make tight tight schedules – they are VITAL to everything you use at home and work. Truck prices equal freight cost increases – increases = consumer prices skyrocketing.
tarpon commented:
Be cheaper to just ‘can the freak’ and drill for oil. What are we running here, the Hugo Chavez tryouts for our man-child?
Why does the country with the world’s largest fossil fuel reserves have to put up with the liberal claptrap is beyond explanation.
What goes in can just go right out … I suggest the first Exec order for the new pres is erase any regulation passed since Jan 1, 2008.
chicago commented:
the next CONSERVATIVE president will have a lot of Executive Orders to cancel!
Gary Ogletree commented:
The market increases fuel economy. That’s how we get new technology. The socialists have already cut our income with ridiculous safety rules that have a negative impact on safety. They should have to work under such inflexible mindlessness. It’s all about nanny state control freaks. Printing trillions of fake Fed notes and shoveling free money into the corrupt investment banks will already give us massive, crippling inflation. Let’s ramp it up some more. Drive up the price of trucks and put lots of good old trucks in the junkyards. That hurts the independents the most. Which may be part of the strategy all along. Marxist Leninists don’t lilke independents or small business operators. I’ve been looking forward to buying a new Volvo tractor. That won’t happen til we get a Tea Party Congress and a President Palin to clean up the Obama disaster. May the sorry bastard rot in hell.
Joyce Sanders commented:
Has Idiot In Chief thought about the fact that the largest employer in the U.S. is Wal Mart that has their own trucking fleet. Prices at Wal Mart will skyrocket! I am sure all of the middle class will be thrilled with their necessities going sky high!
feduptoo commented:
He already allowed Mexican trucks & Mexican truck drivers, to cross our border and drive throughout our Country, delivering cheap Chinese made products.
The environmental upgrades to these trucks, was paid by us!
I have fought illegal immigration for years, I remember someone telling me, that they saw a semi truck pulled off the road, with two men holding a piece of paper up to a street sign….he stopped to help…they were Russians that did not speak English, and were trying to compare the words on the sign, to what was written on the piece of paper!
No business in our country is safe from Obama!
#1AMERICAN commented:
odumbass the mooslum…continuing to destroy america from day 1…. someone needs to frag his A$$ someday
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