Ok, here's what's really going on here: A crash team of German scientists are trying to create an elixir that will allow these mean to live forever, ruling the world under their enlightened form of benign totalitarianism.

2. Government spending is up, as it should be. The lack of government spending is slowing the recovery down. Granted, the spending now is from defense projects, as opposed to shit like roads and education.

I agree... absolutely. BUT CO2 mandates as a solution is even more bullshit. On another level.

Allowing manufacturer's to run their own tests and only auditing a handful. They cannot run every model variant of every car themselves. Car manufacturer's simply play the odds, although its easy to make real mistakes when calculating inertias and road load forces on a dyno.

CARB standard compliant cars are a LOT cleaner than the Euro cars everyone seems to be an irrational fan of. Having looked at real data on a daily basis, I can safely say the Euro standards are much more lax.

How about CO2 emissions like the rest of the world?