Obama’s ‘Doubled Fuel Efficiency’ Con: "the (ethanol) number is multiplied by seven"

Obama’s ‘Doubled Fuel Efficiency’ Con - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

In the second presidential debate, President Obama touted his MPG mandates as evidence of his commitment to energy independence. “That’s why we doubled fuel efficiency standards on cars,” said Obama at the Hofstra town hall. “That means that in the middle of the next decade, any car you buy, you’re going to end up going twice as far on a gallon of gas.”

No, you won’t.
...Because “in calculating mileage numbers to meet the federal government’s fuel economy standards, automakers are allowed to use the average of the gasoline mileage and the (ethanol) mileage for flex fuel vehicles. But the (ethanol) number is multiplied by seven to reward them for producing vehicles capable of using the alternative fuel,” explains the Detroit News.

Multiplied by seven.

That random number, bought by lobbyists, helps automakers (along with more credits gained from electric cars, and natural gas cars, and different air conditioning fluids, and “placing louvers on car grilles to improve aerodynamics,” and we’re not making any of this up) meet President Obama’s equally random 30 percent fuel economy increase by 2016. Or the “doubling” of fuel economy by 2025.

These are fictional numbers set by bureaucrats and manipulated by lobbyist dollars. They are a con. They exist only in Obama World. And in presidential debates where a president and his in-the-tank media willfully mislead the American people into voting for more and more expensive regulations that drive up the price of their cars even as they don’t deliver the benefits claimed.