The new CAFE standard requires American families to bear all the costs the regulation imposes, while allowing special interests receive all the benefits
Obama’s Cap-and-Trade Scheme for Cars
 | By Heritage Foundation Rachael Slobodien (Bio and Archives) Wednesday, December 26, 2012 Comments | Print friendly | Subscribe | Email Us |
Ever since the Senate rejected President Obama’s cap-and-trade scheme in 2009, his administration has been hard at work to find other ways to implement a radical, environmentalist agenda.
Obama made these intentions clear at a press conference in 2010 when he explained, “Cap and trade was just one way of skinning the cat. … It was a means, not an end, and I am going to be looking for other means to address this problem.” And this is a promise he’s doing his best to keep.
With the help of the Environmental Protection Agency and other departments, this administration has relied on backdoor, behind-the-scenes tactics to impose stringent mandates in order to regulate what it has been unable to legislate. This tactic empowers unelected bureaucrats in Washington to implement rules that have far-reaching, negative impacts on our nation’s economy and the way we live our lives.
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