SPEEDING DOWN THE ROAD TO SERFDOM: OBAMA TO MODEL NATIONAL EMISSIONS & MPG RULES AFTER CALIFORNIA

NYTIMES: The Obama administration will issue a new national standard for cars and light trucks that incorporates California’s tough auto-emission rules, industry officials said Monday.

President Obama will announce as early as Tuesday that he will combine that state’s emissions rules with the existing corporate average fuel economy standard overseen by the Transportation Department, the officials said. As a result, cars and light trucks sold in the United States will be roughly 30 percent cleaner and more fuel-efficient by 2016.

The White House would not divulge details, but environmental advocates and industry officials briefed on the program said that the president would grant California’s longstanding request to implement its tailpipe standards. Thirteen other states and the District of Columbia have said they intend to apply the same rules. That request had been denied by the Bush administration but has been under review by top Obama administration officials since January.

Yet Mr. Obama is planning to go further, effectively issuing a single rule for both fuel economy and emissions that matches California’s strictest-in-the-nation standard.

USING CALIFORNIA AS A MODEL FOR ANYTHING BESIDES LEFT-WING OVER-REGULATION AND BANKRUPTCY IS INSANE.

BUT THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT OBAMA HAS IN MIND.

DISSENT ACCORDINGLY.