Tricky End-Around on Auto Policy

President Obama cannot get enough support to require tougher federal emission standards. There is too much pity for the American auto industry in this country to make it work. So today it is announced that since he can't make the auto manufacturers meet tougher standards, he is going to let individual states do his dirty work.

The brilliance of this man is amazing. Not only can he sell this idea as taking away big government and allowing the states autonomy, he avoids the backlash from the public as well as from the lobbyists.

Now when California passes a new emission standard, it will force the manufacturers to toughen up across the entire country because it is too expensive to build to more than one emission standard. The rules of economics will take over and do for Obama and his green team what they cannot accomplish in Washington.