The news item on Obama's upcoming directive on energy-efficiency standards may be welcome news to many of us. I find it more inspiring that he seems to be addressing the "red tape" issue as much as the energy issue. As the directive seems to target appliances, it is not clear what impact this would have on the energy side of things as appliances are one place where energy-efficiency has increased and has been made visible to the consumer at the point of purchase.

On the down side, it would be much more beneficial to increase fuel efficiency in cars nationwide as opposed to allowing select states to do it.