Personally, I see nothing wrong with vote-changing. I was 100% sure that I wanted this to pass, until I read John Ford's argument against it. Things happen. The more freedom, the better, in my opinion. Maybe I'm wrong; I dunno.
At any rate...
With four votes against to six in favor, I hereby declare this override to have failed.
I feel kind of sheepish having done this, but I couldn't come up with an argument against John Ford's, and because of that, I couldn't feel comfortable voting in favor of this. As I said before; I didn't vote against this because of the entire bill; I simply agreed with John Ford that the current mpg standards that it asked of the automotive industry were too high. If this was reintroduced with lower standards, I would probably vote for it.
True, but we are talking about 20 years from now. Ture that that time period might be a little short, but it is better than no time frame at all. We are going to have to advance as a nation sooner or later. If we cannot match-up to these standards in the given time, we can always vote to extend it later. Better to get something done than nothing.
