It's not fashionable to talk about de-regulation, but when it comes to automakers and CAFE standards, that's what needed. Holman Jenkins explains

Will Obama Motors do it. Of course not. Too many of his constituencies would pitch a fit.

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Unfortunately, Mr. Obama, that freethinker, took to the CAFE fraud like a bat to a belfry. He signaled his arrival on the presidential stage by sternly demanding higher mileage standards early in his campaign. The "change" candidate who might have broken with a generation of political cant about CAFE instead appropriated the fraud for his own careerist purposes.