THE OBAMA-NATOR: TERMINATING OUR AUTOMOTIVE LIBERTY

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On Tuesday, May 19, 2009, the end will be here.

Overly dramatic?

According to CNBC's Phil LeBeau:

The new standard will require automakers to cut tailpipe emissions by 30% by 2016. The fuel efficiency standard, currently at 27.5 MPG, will rise to 35 MPG by 2016. The automakers benefit because the new rule will give them flexibility in how they achieve the fuel efficiency requirements and there will only be one national standard, not a mishmash of varying standards state by state.

Under that quick of a time-frame, V8 muscle cars are most certainly going to be slaughtered in the headlong rush to build soulless, happy, smiley FWD Obamamobiles that are acceptable the appliance motorist greeniacs and their steroid-addled RINO lap-dog, California Governor Arnold Schwartzenegger.

Detroit, humiliated, humbled and beholden to corporate welfare will meekly comply, mostly out of the horror that could have arisen had the 9th Circuit and the soon-to-be Obama-ized Supreme Court had permitted the Peoples' Republic of California and thirteen other freedom-hating fellow-traveler police states to set their own fuel economy standards.

Thus, the long, gloomy nightmare that will be a redux of the 1970s, albeit about ten times more expensive and repressive this time, has now been assured.

For some of us, the EnviroNazis will get our "antique" V8s only as they pry the pistol-grip shifters out of our cold-dead hands. We are too old to wait out this long, dark, repressive nightmare. They may crush our collector cars and our bank accounts, but the power-mad looter vermin in charge will never crush our spirit and our resourcefullness.

Others, someday, may anticipate a new birth of vehicular freedom. Whether it occurs is up to a number daunting factors, such as advancements in alternative fuel technology, geopolitics and whether a sufficient number of courageous, freedom-loving voters can overthrow this approaching midnight of our discontent.

To say "see, I told you so" would be accurate, but it would not be helpful. We must fight in the short term to preserve as much of our automotive history as possible and in the long term to recover as much of it as we dare.

While the smokey, back-room Obama-Schwartzenegger-EnviroNazi power grab will dissuade millions of casual automobile enthusiasts from any defiance (mostly because pre-packaged muscle and sports cars will soon become neutered, sanitized, homogenized, and priced out-of-reach), a defiant core of resourceful believers in vehicular freedom and self-determination will reject the compromised, store-bought motoring appliances and hack together "freedom machines" that send but one unmistakable message to those who would attempt to crush our liberty and our dreams.

While the going will become much tougher and the way less traveled, rest assured that some of us will keep on keeping on, if only to gouge the eyes of the "Governator," the Obama-nator, and other pansies of motoring.