Another day, another "Smart Car" tragedy

It's actually sickening to me that motorized golf carts like this one are allowed to traverse major thoroughfares:

A multi-vehicle accident involving a prison work detail crew resulted in two people being airlifted in critical condition to an Atlanta hospital and two others being transported to a local hospital, authorities said...

A guard with the Coweta County Public Works Department was airlifted to Atlanta Medical Center, as was a driver in one of the vehicles involved, according to Todd Moore, deputy fire chief with the Coweta Fire Department.

CAFE (fuel efficiency) standards are the product of our fourth branch of government -- an unaccountable, unelected bureaucracy that exists only to create new regulations. And these standards kill people. Oh, and news flash: with the Obama administration dictating 54 MPG requirements by 2025, more will die.

It is inescapable that more weight means lower fuel economy, so heavier vehicles will have to go. So prepare to say goodbye to sport utility vehicles, pickups and minivans, the very vehicles millions of American families and businesses must rely upon every day... By far the worst result, however, will be the fact that thousands will die because Obama, fanatical Big Green environmentalists, and their allies in the federal bureaucracy care more about removing micro-amounts of emissions than they do about the safety and convenience of people on the roads. We know this because the fanatics persist despite the fact that for years government and private sector researchers alike have documented the terrible correlation between CAFE, lighter cars and highway deaths.


In 2003, for example, a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study estimated that for every 100 pounds of weight taken out of a car weighing under 3,000 pounds, the death rate goes up more than 5 percent; the increase is slightly less than 5 percent for those weighing more than 3,000 pounds. Two years before that, a National Academy of Sciences study estimated that the lighter vehicles required to satisfy CAFE were responsible for as many as 2,600 highway deaths in one year alone. And in 1999, a comprehensive multiple regression analysis by USA Today of the government's Fatality Analysis Reporting System data concluded that 7,700 people died for every one additional mpg attributable to CAFE regulation.

54 MPG?

Remember in 2012.