How do these guys sleep at night? Here's what conservative activist and lobbyist Grover Norquist said regarding the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which President Bush signed into law last December, slowly raising corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards to a paultry 35 MPG by 2020:
The government itself has calculated that around 2000 people a year are killed because of those CAFÉ standards and our cheerful government has just voted to increase them, to make cars lighter, smaller. And more people will die. I mean 2,000 people a year die because the environmentalists think that you should be in a smaller car because it offends their sensitivities that you’re using gasoline.
What the fuck? I'd like to see what "government calculations" he is using to state that ridiculous claim. Not only is he a moron, he is absolutely fucking nuts.
Fuel efficiency is killing us! Go out and buy those Hummers everyone. Use those stimulus checks to buy a tank of gas at $4.00 per gallon!
The sad part is I used to like Grover back in the day before he was a lobbyist with his fuzzy, blue head and his gravelly voice, but since he's been in Washington, he's become such an asshole.
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