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While Congress ponders this and other cases of unintended acceleration, it should ponder its own actions which have resulted in the deaths of thousands of Americans."
Thousands of Americans have died, more than in the Middle East, due to Congressional mandates on fuel standards.
"According to a 2003 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study, when a vehicle is reduced by just 100 pounds the estimated fatality rate increases as much as 5.63% for light cars weighing less than 2,950 pounds, 4.70% for heavier cars weighing over 2,950 pounds and 3.06% for light trucks."
Government is a killer.
"A study done by USA Today, using data from the NHTSA and the Institute for Highway Safety, found that through 1998, weight and size reductions undertaken by automakers to meet fuel efficiency standards had resulted in 46,000 deaths. That's the population of Pocatello, Idaho, wiped out by misguided federal regulations.
A 2001 National Research Council study concluded that CAFE was responsible for up to 2,000 additional deaths on the highway annually. Compare this to Toyota's average of two fatalities per year in a country with 40,000 highway deaths annually, a death rate of 0.005%."
It is time to get Washington out of the "killing fields". We are being killed by radicals on the field of political correctness.
Shame on us for allowing government to harm our families.
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Thousands of Americans have died, more than in the Middle East, due to Congressional mandates on fuel standards.
"According to a 2003 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study, when a vehicle is reduced by just 100 pounds the estimated fatality rate increases as much as 5.63% for light cars weighing less than 2,950 pounds, 4.70% for heavier cars weighing over 2,950 pounds and 3.06% for light trucks."
Government is a killer.
"A study done by USA Today, using data from the NHTSA and the Institute for Highway Safety, found that through 1998, weight and size reductions undertaken by automakers to meet fuel efficiency standards had resulted in 46,000 deaths. That's the population of Pocatello, Idaho, wiped out by misguided federal regulations.
A 2001 National Research Council study concluded that CAFE was responsible for up to 2,000 additional deaths on the highway annually. Compare this to Toyota's average of two fatalities per year in a country with 40,000 highway deaths annually, a death rate of 0.005%."
It is time to get Washington out of the "killing fields". We are being killed by radicals on the field of political correctness.
Shame on us for allowing government to harm our families.
More...