Last night, Ron Paul had a chance to carry the state of California.  When asked the question about CA's right to set emission standards, the answer should have been:

Absolutely!  When Pres. Bush and the EPA forced the CA Air Resources Board to remove the no emission car requirement, Pres. Bush stole the right of the California people to choice their own destiny.  By doing that, the "Big 3" stopped all electric car development, leaving only Honda and Toyota to fill the need.  If Bush and the EPA would have stayed out of their business, the people of CA would have cleaner air to breath, electric cars to drive, lower gas prices because of lower demand, and those unemployed auto workers in Michigan, that Senator McCain told their jobs were gone and they would have to be retrained, would not be attending McDonald's University learning how to flip burgers, they would be making electric cars.

Yes, it's continually amazing to me how short-sighted the American car companies are.  I guess quarterly profits reports trumps all intelligent long-term thinking.  Just another example of how the current financial paradigm for publicly traded companies is encouraging a pathalogical exclusion of long-term interests in any strategic planning.

...whoever is next as prez should be able to overturn it (or rather, assign someone to the EPA who will).

Sad that given that fact, the Bushies will continue to spend money and resources to fight it until they leave office.