I read a short article in the newspaper yesterday and I’ve been fuming about it since. And what better place to fume than my blog? The title of the article was Carmakers say fuel-economy proposal too aggressive. The crux of the article was that the “Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers” wrote 70 pages “explaining” (wah-wah-wah) why the government proposed rules for increasing fuel economy in cars by 4.5% per year from 2011 to 2015 is “too hard”. The “Alliance of Cry Babies who Don’t Give a Carp About the Planet” said in their response that this proposal “would require manufacturers to expend resources at a pace that is excessive given the fact that the auto industry is already under economic stress”.

Idiots.

I mean, why are they under “economic stress” anyway? Is it because they make a product that people want? No. Is it because they make a fuel efficient automobile? No. Is it because they have an aggressive engineering shop who has the latitude to design the cars people actually want? No. it is the opposite. Economic stress means that they aren’t making money. And they aren’t making money because they aren’t making cars that people want. And they aren’t making cars that people want because they are, and always have been, terrible and horrible at responding to peoples actual needs, even though those needs are visible even to a box turtle years in advance. I mean, how long have most of us known that gasoline was reaching unreasonable levels? 3, 4 years?

Idiots.

The response from the “Alliance of MudHeads Who Make Excessively Big Cars” is less of a response to a good proposal and more of a list of excuses why they don’t want to stop making big cars with big engines which burn big fuel. Meanwhile the Japanese are busying themselves improving and producing hydrogen cars; the French and Indians are producing cars that run on compressed air; the Brazilians are running their cars on Ethyl Alcohol. And the American Carmakers? Living as usual in the side pockets of the Arabs who just keep getting richer and richer as they drive the U.S. into recession and eventual depression.

Idiots.

Why is it that the American car industry is Always behind the power curve when it comes to knowing what people want? Americans are faced with $6.00 per gallon gasoline in the not-to-distant future, and what is the “Alliance of Big Heavy Petroleum Burning Cars” doing? Supporting the industry; an industry that is still producing Hummers and Escalades and Silverados, even while used car lots are filling up with these vehicles because nobody can afford them anymore.

Idiots.

Why is it that the automobile manufacturers are posting record losses this year? Hint: it is NOT because people want gas hogs. Yet gas hogs are what the automobile manufacturers keep producing and will produce until they finally get jolted from their ignorant bliss by imported hydrogen cars.

Idiots.

Instead of bellyaching and crying and whining about the government’s “unrealistic” proposal, you would think that the car industry would be on the leading edge; that their marketing gurus would be yelling at the top of their lungs, “Stop the manufacturing lines! We need to retool!”. Nope. They want to whine. They want to complain. They want to keep making 15 MPG cars and then are actually confused when nobody buys them. They just keep thinking that everything will be alright. It isn’t, and it hasn’t been for a long time.

Idiots.

I want these idiots to wake up. At least one of them, anyway. How about you, Chrysler? You brought Lee Ioacoca back to bail your stupid butts out (again). Hey Lee…have you thought about any alternative fuel autos yet? Well, probably not. Excuses are easier to make than profits. And “Big Oil” would get laws passed even if you did.

So I guess we are the bigger idiots for not making more noise.