News Item: President Obama introduces legislation to allow states to control auto emissions standards

This is step one in the healing of the auto industry. While manufacturers will scream that more stringent emissions standards place further barriers to their recovery, this is not true. U.S. auto manufacturers have not kept pace with global emissions standards, and in a few short years, U.S. cars would fail to meet more rigid standards being imposed in asia and Europe, as well as other parts of the world.

Obama's edict will spark innovation in Detroit and among the Big Three, and protect and build global markets for U.S. built cars for the next decade and beyond.

"Year after year, decade after decade, we've chosen delay over decisive action," Obama said. "Rigid ideology has overruled sound science. Special interests have overshadowed common sense. Rhetoric has not led to the hard work needed to achieve results — and our leaders raise their voices each time there's a spike on gas prices, only to grow quiet when the price falls at the pump."

So, c'mon, Detroit! Turn your best and brightest onto creating cars that burn fossil fuels more cleanly, and new initiatives that utilize our domestic resources.