Author: Obama's Proposed Emissions & Mileage Standards Would Kill More Americans than the Iraq War

Via my friend Dave, Steve Milloy suggests that Obama's new automobile standards will result in thousands of American deaths each year.

Obama’s standards will require automakers to meet a 35 miles-per-gallon standard by 2016 — four years earlier than the same standard imposed by the Energy Security and Independence Act of 2007.

As discussed in my new book Green Hell, the only way for carmakers to meet these standard is to make smaller, lighter and deadlier cars.

The National Academy of Sciences has linked mileage standards with about 2,000 deaths per year. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that every 100-pound reduction in the weight of small cars increases annual traffic fatalities by as much as 715.

In contrast in the more than six years since the Iraq war began, there have been 4,296 deaths among American military personnel.

Read the whole thing.

posted by Gabriel Malor at 11:42 AM

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