text: McCarthy and the Air Offices misleading statements about fuel switching discredited critics who claimed the EPA waswaging a war on coal and would, if left to its own devices, ban new coal generation. The fiction thatgreenhouse gas emission standards are unrelated to fuel economy standards gavethe EPA legal covertogin up a regulatory nightmare for auto makers the prospect of a market-balkanizing, state-by-state, fuel-economy patchwork just so the White House, in hush-hush negotiations, could demand auto industry support for the administrations motor vehicle mandates as the price for averting thedreaded patchwork.This is a complicated tale , which I will discuss in Part 2 of this series.