Efficient Automoble Rebate System Bill (Failed)

[MaxQue]

I favor Tmth's amendment.  Marokai, I am not getting why you so strongly oppose it.  I guess I don't understand what you are trying to accomplish.

It guts the purpose of the amendment, which is to get people buying cars again. The average MPG in 2008 model cars was only 21! If we're going to continue to push the required number for buying a car higher and higher it makes it less likely people will buy new vehicles.

We're turning this into a solely environmental measure as opposed to an economic stimulus program, and we're mucking up a program that already had much higher requirements for MPG than the real one.

I don't want my name on such a thing.

I posted a good list of vehicles that met the requirements for cars. You can't justify your position as anything except roadblocking.

Almost all of them are foreign.

[MaxQue]

Well I don't support this program at all....but an "American only" clause is particularly disgusting.

And unconstitutional, which is why I didn't propose it.

How would it be unconstitutional?

Even if that was constitutionnal, I don't think it would be accepted by the Senate. See what happened to the ''Buy Atlasian'' of the stimulus. I would not support that clause, anyways.

By the way, I am against Tmth's amendment.

[MaxQue]

Nay

[MaxQue]

Aye

[MaxQue]

Nay, the economical impact will be only for rich people.