This just means California will have to wait another year to implement tougher standards. Once Bush, and his EPA flunkie are gone, I'm sure the Govinator will re-submit his request.
With an EPA official appointed by a Democrat President, he'll get his waiver.
Unfortuantely, we still have to breath dirty Republican-controlled air for one year longer than we should have to.
The auto makers better start retooling now. It's just a matter of time.

The auto makers should've retooled 30 years ago. Well, I take that back, they retooled for gas-guzzlers because they were more profitable.

China has at least eleven auto makers. All of them are making gasoline powered vehicles. Some Chinese believe the United States had 150 years of polluting the planet why shouldn't China have at least that long too?

I say let the Chinese use the old technology. Let them choke on their pollution. They should be used to playing second fiddle.

We in America are going to make clean running alternative fuel vehicles. America has always been ahead of the rest of the world. China will be eating their bamboo hats.

Let China use old technology...tick, tick, tick.
Let China continue to burn dirty coal...tick, tick, tick.
Let China, with 1.3 billion people, continue to do all those things that foul the environment...tick, tick, tick...
and we all choke on their pollution, while we tread water from the melting ice-caps.