LAT editorials

The LAT argues today in an editorial that the electronic surveillance bill that Congress passed last week would expose Americans in the U.S. to having their international calls monitored by NSA even if their calls were to friends or relatives. The specific wording in the bill that concerns the LAT isn't cited, probably because it isn't in the bill.

In another editorial, the LAT argues for restrictions on uses of fuel similar to those found in Europe and Japan. LAT editors say Detroit automakers' claim that they can't sell high-mileage cars in the U.S. is bunk because they already do in foreign countries. You wonder whether the LAT is aware that fuel costs are much higher in Europe and some other countries than in the U.S., and that people drive small cars in those countries to save money on fuel.