We really can’t get the government out of the auto business fast enough. If you need more proof of that, look no further than the reports of the Obama administration’s own automotive task force. The task force concluded that existing fuel-efficiency standards have hampered GM and Chrysler’s ability to compete, and that raising fuel-efficiency standards (which the administration supports) would hamper their ability to compete even further. “On a standalone basis,” the task force reported, “Chrysler will struggle to comply with increasing fuel-efficiency standards.” And many of GM’s best-selling products, the task force wrote, “fail to meet the minimum threshold on fuel economy and rank in the bottom quartile of fuel economy achievement.” Obama needs to decide: Do we want viable private automakers, or do we want automaking government adjuncts in the business of selling green cars at a loss?