It´s actually a good thing that it is done this way. Too many people don´t understand what has already been done to, I mean, for them.

1. zippy cannot be allowed to bypass Congress;
2. Anyone who thinks this is for safety is naive. This is a stalinistic tactic to track us (think of the mandate to computerize our medical records).
3. zippy must be stopped.

Next up...carbon taxes on mileage driven ,the leftys have many ways to incrementally steal your freedoms.

Somebody needs to put the brakes on!

Black Boxes will make it so much easier for zero´s Gestapo to track malcontents.

Get real:

Personal computers can be hacked.

"Secure" infrastructure computers can be hacked.

Government computers can be hacked.

These black boxes can and will be hacked and/or disabled.

There HAVE been data gathering boxes in cars for years. That is why insurance companies can tell what speed you were travleing, and if brakes were applied before a collision. Of course, I am sure these new boxes will have a lot for info gathered.
AND the cost is added to the purchase price of the cars.

Whatever you say mein Fuehrer.

Hitler didn´t need the Reichstag.

Enjoy what freedoms we have left, while you can....

great news..
this will help find your car when it stops in the middle of nowhere from using the E85 gas..
a government tow truck will then be able to be dispatched to give you a ticket and impound your car..

Evidently we have no need for a Congress. Or elections, courts, laws, the Constitution, the several states, or any of that other stuff. Just the Emperor and the Politburo, issuing diktats and ukases to we the proles. Much more efficient. How soon The Terror?

Love me some old pick-up trucks.

Obama bypasses Congress again? Think about it. Just two-hundred-thirty-six years from The Declaration of Independence back to "The Divine Right of Kings."

Will someone please explain to me how this man can bypass Congress with impunity and no one, NO ONE says much of anything?

and the congressional response is?
...[chirp] [chirp] [chirp]
Why bother voting for and electing any republicans if they don´t even use the brains God gave them? They seriously better have an opposing position...

The King has spoken, Long Live the King - - just kidding.

Totalitarian tyrant! This dictator thinks he can do whatever he wants.

The budget negations can get a kick start if Congress simply shutters its doors and goes home. It´s blatantly obvious that with obama bypassing congress so frequently, and with congress´s response being a resounding hush, the U.S. Congress no longer serves a purpose. They should close up, go home and save us the money wasted on an occupied but empty building.

Looks like George Orwell was a prophet...1984 is riding in on a 747 named Air Force One.

No new cars for us.

The beginning of taxing you for how many miles you drive.

How long until they tag and chip our kids?
I´m pretty sure it will be this administration that tries...

Somehow we need to find another way to stop him. The GOP leadership is stuffed with Progressives who don´t want to upset Obozo´s handlers...

Black boxes can also be used to apply all kinds of usage taxes..

The Dictator is watching you...

and its not Sasha Baren Cohen

Czar, Caesar, Lord, King, Pharaoh, Saviour, Exalted One, Master, Monarch - just to name a few.

How about ------ (use your imagination)

All these extralegal "mandates" and executive orders can be challenged in federal court. EOs are only supposed to apply to federal agencies and federal employees. Unless Congress ceded to the DOT the power to establish these types of mandates, they are illegal. The reason that the Transportation Secretary can promulgate CAFE standards is because Congress gave DOT that authority back in the 70s.

From Wikipedia: "The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) regulates CAFE standards and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) measures vehicle fuel efficiency. U.S. Congress specifies that CAFE standards must be set at the "maximum feasible level" given consideration for:
1) technological feasibility;
2) economic practicality;
3) effect of other standards on fuel economy;
4) need of the nation to conserve energy."

NHTSA is part of DOT. As with so much of what comes out of Washington, DC, unelected bureaucrats are empowered to create regulations that have the force of law (see Obamacare). But Congress does have to specifically give up that power.

King Obama!

Where is Congress?

FTA: "House Republicans, citing privacy concerns, had succeeded in removing a Senate provision requiring EDRs from the final transportation bill earlier this year."

And this joker, the Squatter in OUR HOUSE is deliberately slapping the Congress in the face and they just sit with their three monkey stance and grin!

If this doesn´t bring the entire House and Senate with fists raised out of their seats, then we are screwed!

Still waiting.

#21, they already tax you for the number of miles you drive via the gasoline tax. Wasn´t that another of Carter´s wonderful gifts to us?

At what point is this not dictatorship?
The other article was about Holder approving a super secret government (non congress passed) law monitoring of citizens.

This is dictatorship by definition.

As i have often said, beware the smile of the tyrant: it conceals a bloody maw.

No tyrant is ever benign. Every tyrant is a triple-A, control-freak personality, sanctimonious, self-righteous, pompous and arrogant, and thrilling with the exercise of power.

My oldish car is looking more beautiful to me by the day.

It´s good to be the king.

#29, the reason they want to tax mileage is that they are simultaneously trying to get us all to drive electric or hybrid vehicles, thus reducing their "take" from gasoline use (as does the increased CAFE standards on vehicle fuel economy mandated for the next 20 years)... they see a huge source of tax revenue being lost over time.

666.