Why end subsidies when we can add new mandates?

Environmentalists can find plenty of common ground with libertarians and conservatives if they are just willing to drop, for a moment, their affinity for Big Government.

Yesterday I went on MSNBC’s Dylan Ratigan show, and on one segment, an environmental lobbyist for the Union of Concerned Scientists (formerly he worked for the Sierra Club) came on to laud federal fuel economy mandates. He made it sound like people wanted fuel economy cars before, and now, thanks to government, we can all get those cars.