Welcome to a bold new era of American automobile fuel-efficiency standards which will, by the year 2030, cause our great nation to achieve the fuel-efficiency most European countries already enjoyed in the 1990s.
“And that could mean danger for many Americans,” according to Jerome Corsi’s Red Alert, an online newsletter which publishes articles with headlines like “Obamamobiles may kill Americans ‘faster than Iraqi war’: Dangers of tiny vehicles required for CAFÉ standards cited” (you can subscribe for just $99 a year!!!
Some blogs have lit up with fears that car safety may be undermined by a push for energy efficiency. In fact, fears about safety and security figure pretty prominently in public debate. In that vein, I’d like to propose a tax on the words “safety” and “security.” Any time a Christian (for starters) uses the words “safety” or “security” on TV or in the blogosphere, they would pay a fee of, say $1000 (or $2000 if it turns out that the speaker is a fan of Fox’s TV drama “24”). It might make us think twice about having safety and security as our pre-eminent values.
If that works out, we could think about using the money to subsidize words like “justice” and “mercy.” This way, we could harness market forces to better align our public discourse with Scriptural values. It’s just a thought.
Rusty Pritchard
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