Now they say they can do it
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Detroit's struggling automakers could do themselves and everyone else a favor by dropping their increasingly untenable four-year legal assault on California's efforts to regulate and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars and light trucks, according to an editorial in The New York Times. Three different federal courts have ruled against them. While President Bush has been far too sympathetic to their cause -- for either Detroit's own good or the environment's -- the Obama administration surely will not share those sympathies. Nor is there any technological impediment, despite what the automakers have long claimed. According to the business plans submitted to Congress by General Motors and Ford as part of their appeal for federal help (Chrysler has been far less forthcoming) both companies appear fully capable of meeting, if not exceeding, the California standards. 
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