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"Green" Is Murder

Goddamn environmentalists... these ignorant fucks have no idea how much suffering they've caused. Every law has unintended consequences, but do they stop and think about who their  "Green" policies hurt? Fuck no. Consider just one of the environmentalists' dictates that have gotten people killed: Automobile fuel efficiency standards (CAFE Standards.) Everything in life has tradeoffs. Guess what cars traded for government imposed efficiency: weight, size, reinforcement... AKA Safety. In a free market, each of us could decide for ourselves the safety vs. efficiency question, but environmentalists use government force to impose their choices on everyone. So, how many people have fuel efficiency standards killed? If we told you, you'd never belive it. So we'll let a respectable person break it down:

From J.R. Dunn at the American Thinker: 

Studies have repeatedly demonstrated the fatal results of mileage regulations, starting in 1989 with the Brookings Institution (in collaboration with the Harvard School of Public Health), followed by USA Today in 1999, the National Academy of Sciences in 2001, and at last the federal government's own National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration in 2003. This formidable lineup of organizations all came to the same conclusion: Fuel standards kill.
According to the Brookings Institution, a 500-lb weight reduction of the average car increased annual highway fatalities by 2,200-3,900 and serious injuries by 11,000 and 19,500 per year. USA Today found that 7,700 deaths occurred for every mile per gallon gained in fuel economy standards. Smaller cars accounted for up to 12,144 deaths in 1997, 37% of all vehicle fatalities for that year. The National Academy of Sciences found that smaller, lighter vehicles "probably resulted in an additional 1,300 to 2,600 traffic fatalities in 1993." The National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration study demonstrated that reducing a vehicle's weight by only one hundred pounds increased the fatality rate by as much as 5.63% for light cars, 4.70% for heavier cars, and 3.06% for light trucks. These rates translated into additional traffic fatalities of 13,608 for light cars, 10,884 for heavier cars, and 14,705 for light trucks between 1996 and 1999.
How many deaths have resulted? Depending on which study you choose, the total ranges from 41,600 to 124,800. To that figure we can add between 352,000 and 624,000 people suffering serious injuries, including being crippled for life. In the past thirty years, fuel standards have become one of the major causes of death and misery in the United States -- and one almost completely attributable to human stupidity and shortsightedness.
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