Exactly. State's rights and vote with your feet.
Except we all have to put up with crappy cars because the auto industry isn't going to make two standards. They're just going to make everything California compliant.
“I’m perfectly OK with California having stricter standards.
Let them try it out and see if it works before forcing it on the rest of us.”
The only problem is automakers DON’T make cars to different standards.
All cars are made to the strictest standards, California standards.
You are paying for those things the California Marxists mandate even if you buy your vehicle in Kentucky and never drive it anywhere else.
California has been costing the rest of us for decades.
Within your answer there is an admission that the stricter standard will be forced on US. If you are outside of CA what right to redress do you have on a State standard being imposed on those who live outside the offending State?
Commerce Clause and perhaps federal statutory preemption are two that come to mind. For the left, it is the doctrine of the “Ends Justify the Means.” How would California leftists take it if conservative states said that they were no longer going to allow motor voter or not participate in federal background checks, etc?
The states are the fundamental building blocks of America, which is why we have an electoral college.
If California wants to mandate minimum 200 mpg cars, then let them. If California wants to mandate only cars that emit no hydrocarbons while in operation, then let them. They can manufacture their own cars.
What bothers me is the Federal Government overreaching their Constitutional powers and imposing fuel economy and emissions standards on cars. That is 100% the authority of the separate sovereign states and the Fed gov should have no role in that whatsoever.