Obamacare, Meet Obamacar (National Review, 03.25.10)

Posted by hpayne on March 25, 2010

Detroit — Thanks to Obamacare, the health-insurance industry is poised to enter Washington’s regulatory funhouse. The auto industry is already there. And while Americans aren’t yet forced to buy alternative fuel vehicles, the cost of Washington’s mandate of a 40 percent fuel-economy increase by 2015 (to 35 mpg) may cause sticker shock.

Once upon a time, automakers could make tiny econoboxes (and offload them to rental fleets, for example) to balance the bigger vehicles consumers wanted. Now “each size category of vehicle — ‘footprint,’ in federal jargon — will have its own miles per gallon bogey,” reports Dave Guilford of Automotive News after interviews with top industry development chiefs. . . .

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