[quote=sdduuuude]
Uh. I didn’t say anything about pollution, and neither did your original post. That is a different matter entirely. Regulating pollution is sensible as it prevents people from infringing upon the rights of others. Your post has to do with gas mileage – a decision I have the right to make for myself.[/quote]

Actually, because pollution occurs during the extraction of oil, increasing mpg will reduce that pollution. One of the biggest ecological disasters in American history occurred as a result of attempted oil extraction this summer in the Gulf of Mexico. If mpg standards were higher, maybe we wouldn’t need to drill in such extreme environments. Wars waged to control oil fields also cause pollution.

In any event, the arguments you have made in this thread are incredibly simplistic. My son who is in the eighth grade makes more sound, logical, and compelling arguments. It’s great that you think you can make the mpg decision for yourself, but CAFE standards have been in place for a long time and are going up next year whether you like it or not. Hopefully, the mpg standards will continue to go up.

Feel free to continue to whine about how increasing mpg standards violates your precious rights. The majority of America disagrees with you, and I guess you will just have to live with that (unless you want to move to China).