{"id":19454,"date":"2013-11-15T13:06:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=19454"},"modified":"2013-11-15T13:07:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T18:07:52","slug":"president-obama-excited-to-kill-more-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/19454\/president-obama-excited-to-kill-more-people\/","title":{"rendered":"President Obama Excited to Kill More People"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the White House\u2019s official Twitter page, President\u00a0Obama bragged<\/a> that under his administration, “We set new fuel standards that will double the distance our cars and trucks go on a gallon of gas.”<\/p>\n

Ignore for a moment that the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency slapped the burdensome regulations on car makers 15 months ago<\/a>, so the Tweet is obviously a pathetic diversionary tactic to shift the public\u2019s attention away from the recent Obamacare debacle that has further tarnished Obama\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s focus instead on the reality that stricter fuel standards kill thousands of people a year.<\/p>\n

Since the simplest way to improve a vehicle\u2019s mileage is to reduce its weight, fuel efficiency standards turn cars into \u201csmall, underpowered death traps,\u201d according to the National Center for Policy Analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Obama\u2019s ridiculous miles per gallon regulations won\u2019t fully take effect for another dozen years, previous fuel standard policies are responsible for many of the deaths we see today.<\/p>\n

In 1999, USA Today<\/em> calculated<\/a> that the reduction in the size and weight of passenger vehicles necessitated by fuel efficiency standards had resulted in more than 46,000 deaths. There have been thousands more Americans killed unnecessarily in the years since that report.<\/p>\n

Highway deaths have been spiking recently. There was a 5.3% increase<\/a> in deaths on America’s roads last year alone. That\u2019s not surprising since, in 2011, another significant increase in minimum miles per gallon for passenger cars was put in place. As drivers upgrade to newer car models, they are unwittingly putting themselves in lighter, more dangerous cars.<\/p>\n

Judging by the White House’s tweet, it\u2019s apparent that the President is proud to force Americans into even smaller, lighter cars. He seems disturbingly at ease with the thousands of American deaths his decision will cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the White House\u2019s official Twitter page, President\u00a0Obama bragged that under his administration, “We set new fuel standards that will double the distance our cars and trucks go on a gallon of gas.” Ignore for a moment that the Department of Transportation and the Environmental Protection Agency slapped the burdensome regulations on car makers 15 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2969,4384,609,4381,4382,4383,24],"class_list":["post-19454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cafe-standards","tag-department-of-transportation","tag-environmental-protection-agency","tag-fuel-standards","tag-miles-per-gallon","tag-mpg","tag-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19454"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19456,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19454\/revisions\/19456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}