Feds stop states from curtailing auto emissions

Isn't this great? We get a new energy bill that puts off doing anything to cut auto emissions for another 13 years, and what happens? Withing minutes of its passage, the Federal Government uses this as an excuse to stop the states from trying to solve the problem on their own:

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday denied California and 16 other states the right to set their own standards for carbon dioxide emissions from automobiles.

The E.P.A. administrator, Stephen L. Johnson, said the proposed California rules were pre-empted by federal authority and made moot by the energy bill signed into law by President Bush on Wednesday. Mr. Johnson said California had failed to make a compelling case that it needed authority to write its own standards for greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks to help curb global warming.

Please everybody, dump as many noxious fumes into the air as you possibly can. Our president loves them.