Obama Raises CAFE Standards for Vehicles While Debt Ceiling Talks Go On.

Just so we all know what happened, in the middle of the debt talks, in the middle of the markets dropping, in the middle of credit rating companies looking to downgrade the US bond rating, Obama gleefully enacts a standard that is twice the standard of today. As of yet, no major car company has shown the ability to meet the 2016 mandated standard of 35 mpg so why not push for an even higher standard? [h/t Doug Brady at Conservatives4Palin]