Unintended Consequences

Thursday 11 August 2011 - Filed under Uncategorized

The Stache on the Obama administration’s new fuel milage regulations:

Sounds impressive, but he didn’t mention the costs. The Center for Automotive Research says the new standard will raise the price of cars by about $7,000. You’d need to save a lot on fuel to break even.

But that’s not the worst of it. The new rules will kill people. Sam Kazman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute explained this on my Fox Business show last week. The MPG standard “has been killing people for the last 30 years,” Kazman said. How can that be?

“It forces cars to be…made smaller and lighter….They are simply worse in just about every type of auto collision.” The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration actually backs Kazman up. It estimates that smaller cars are responsible for an additional 2,000 deaths each year.

Imagine that—a government safety agency promotes a rule that kills people.

Gotta love those “unintended consequences” that government is famous for.

2011-08-11  »  madlibertarianguy