He’s calling for an end to Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. As one of my schoolteachers said when the rules were first applied, so goes the auto industry, so goes the United States. Government Micro Manages IndustryAs a story from the Washington Free Beacon explains, government-dictated fuel economy standards after the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo. The station wagon, a part of American family culture, vanished as the large vehicles couldn’t meet the low fuel economy regulations. This is about choice, and choice is liberty.