Arnold Schwarzenegger at the Los Angeles Auto Show

A quick comment on California’s governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s presence at the Los Angeles Auto Show. My friend Steve Ellis at Honda, who also spoke, submitted this video to EVWorld.

If you watch the first few minutes, you’ll see great political speechmaking at work. The governor introduced the car companies and the state EPA as if they were friends, working hand in hand to preserve the pristine California skies.

Of course, anyone who knows anything about the last 15 years of the state’s history knows that this is utter tripe. Not that anyone’s asking me to run for office, but this is the very reason I couldn’t get elected dogcatcher: I simply wouldn’t be able to pronounce a statement as patently absurd as this.