Obama Mandates a Market for His Green Cars - By Henry Payne - Planet Gore - National Review Online

The Obama administration’s reported proposal of a 56 mpg fuel-economy mandate by 2025 sets up an inherent conflict of interest for a government that has given away hundreds of millions of federal dollars to companies manufacturing batteries for electric cars.
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Those manufacturers are dependent on huge federal infusions of cash — as well as the federal purchase of electric vehicles in order to stay in business. The Obama administration, in other words, is mandating an artificial mpg standard to guarantee a market for its investment.

“Regarding the feds and the auto industry, conflicts of interest that used to be the exception are now the rule,” says Sam Kazman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a longtime critic of federal fuel mandates.
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Already this year, Obama helped the automakers towards meeting federal standards by promising that the feds will only fill their 600,000 vehicle fleet with hybrid-electrics.

The Mendacity of Al Gore’s Rolling Stone Article, Part 2: Special Interests and Climate Policy

On special interests and climate policy, Mr. Gore has it backwards, again. Special interests didn’t scuttle cap-and-trade; American voters did. Rather, special interests created cap-and-trade, in order to enrich themselves.