Additionally, the CA systems cause a notable reduction in engine efficiency, and quickly degrade in operation resulting in a slight net increase of tailpipe pollution emissions over 49 state vehicles.
California is in a position to lose big despite the assurances that the CAL EPA can bend the entire Federal Government, and 49 other state governments, around their little finger.
CA is like Oz :)
Pruitt has got to follow through on this. The last minute standards Obongo imposed were outrageous we will be forced to drive $40,000 golf carts.
I hope the Trump administration drops CAFE standards. It would be nice to see a resurgence of full size American cars on the road.
If kalifornia wants to impose a bazillion miles per gallon standard, and if car manufacturers are stupid enough to go along with them, I say go for it.
Let them do what they want. The auto industry can sell vehicles that cost $40,000 more than they cost in any other state, or just don’t sell them in CA. Let them walk
BTW if the inland portions of CA would like to break away I think the rest of the country would welcome them
“California’s ability to write its own tighter tailpipe standards was explicitly written into the federal Clean Air Act five decades ago to help the state combat smog in the Los Angeles Basin.”
Depending on the specific language in the law, this may come down to legislative intent- and Calif would lose.
Or, auto makers can begin to build 49-state cars and California can end up looking like Cuba in 10 or so years.
Who’s air is it anyway? :P
I recognize a local interest in reducing smog, etc. from certain environmental impact regions. As a believer in states rights and self-determination, I’d allow California to set the environmental regs they wish but those stop at the state border. Nevada, Arizona, Oregon, etc. have no requirement to follow them.
When Trump’s economic plans take effect, CA will be left in the dust while the rest of the country is forging ahead.
We used to be the Golden State. Soon we will be Left-Behind State.
California’s ever changing emission standards have also destroyed plenty of small businesses. I remember several years ago, small shops had to struggle to afford new testing equipment when they changed the program—the machines those days were in the $50-100K range.
Just about the time the shop owners were able to secure financing on the new equipment, Sacramento changed its mind again. So the small business owners were left up to their alligators in debt for nothing.
Normally, I do not want the feds interfering with state business. But, California has become a rogue state, engaging in unconstitutional practices and needs to be brought to heel.
So, their “religion” IS Gaia, the “revolution”, and their Mexican-atheist-socialist future.
California’s relevance is diminishing before our very eyes.
Children could do better leading my state, provided they hadn’t spent years being indoctrinated by Leftists.
It would be laughable if it weren’t so serious.
Time to IMPEACH Jerry MOONBEAM Brown. Bad laws, bad leadership. Oh Ya, we need the “Meth Express” excuse me the Bullet Train.
IOW, CA needs the money from all of the clean air fees, and the Feds are threatening their gravy train.
I’d love to see the manufacturers refuse to comply with CA specific rules. We could visit in a few years and CA highways would look like the streets of Cuba with all of the old model vehicles kept running.
SMOG in the LA Basin was pretty bad. Denver too. Local solutions were warranted. Best solution? Depopulate by limiting water stolen from outside the watershed.
Latinos, especially Mexicans, don’t give a crap about CA lib’s environmental gaia and pretty damn soon they will own CA at the ballot box.