THE 70'S ARE STILL GOING STRONG IN THE BUREAUCRACY:

EPA plans to overhaul tests to set more accurate mileage (Sharon Silke Carty and James R. Healey, USA TODAY)
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Government fuel-economy tests will be changed to more closely mimic the way people really drive, the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said during a tour of the EPA auto lab here.

EPA will propose, yet this year, an overhaul of its 1970s-era tests that will include hard acceleration, air conditioning use and cold temperature operation — none part of the current tests. There has been speculation all year about how the tests might change, but his comments here were the first official outline.

"Everyone agrees that the test procedure and calculations are outdated," EPA administrator Stephen Johnson said Friday in his first tour of the agency's emissions and fuel-economy test site in his 25 years with the agency.
Next the Fed will figure out that folks shop on-line and there'sd this newfangled place called Wal-Mart....