How does this make sense? Allowing states to set their own regulations on auto emissions that are higher than the EPA will certainly cause a lot of grief for the automakers. Here we are trying to help bail them out and then you present the possibility of needing to manufacture different cars for different states in order to meet different standards. Either that or a state like California suddenly has the power to set emissions standards for the entire country. Isn’t that what the EPA is for? Why not request the EPA to set the higher standards? While I dislike the big 3 automakers and their previous greedy executives and lack of leadership, still, it doesn’t make much sense to then turn around and make it difficult at best (and very expensive) to meet all those demands. Let them get the pill down they already have to swallow.