Regular Fellow

Barack Obama's recent press conference was full of the boilerplate one expects at these events. One of the few interesting moments was when he came out in favor of heavier environmental regulation of the automobile industry, and in particular was hoping California would lead the way in regulating even more than the federal government does. And he didn't just claim the cost to consumers would be good for us (actually, he didn't mention the cost to consumers), he claimed it would help the economy.