#3. Cowboy:

“”"”Obama’s new fuel standards are imposed through the executive branch, piggy-backed on new regulatory powers he’s granted to the EPA regarding carbon dioxide emissions as a greenhouse gas.”"”"”

Good Lord, that’s right! Past CAFE standards were legislated by Congress, not by executive fiat! How lawless and crazy is that? I missed that completely, as, apparently, did most people. When the feds bailed out Chrysler back in 1980 or so, I don’t recall that the feds took over Chrysler. This Mob-like inistence that “we own you” because we lent you money is frightening, but not as scary as the fact that the mechanisms and institutions that are supposed to be in place to stop such corruption are doing nothing to prevent it.