Posted on 08/19/2026 7:58:32 AM PDT by simpson96
A bill to regulate car tires was passed by the California Legislature 20 years ago but never implemented.
“The California Energy Commission dusted off a 20+ year old bill to pass new rules restricting tire sales in the state,” KCRA’s Ashley Zavala reported Monday. “The CEC has not regulated tires before. I asked Commissioner (former State Sen) Nancy Skinner if she pushed it & why this sat dormant until now.”
Assembly Bill 844 “directs the California Energy Commission to adopt a Replacement Tire Efficiency Program to ensure replacement tires for passenger cars and light-duty trucks sold in California are at least as energy-efficient as the tires sold as original equipment on new vehicles.”
Skinner justified the decision by the California Energy Commission “we regulate appliances, tires are kind of like that.”
Nancy Skinner is the same lawmaker who tried to ban “Bullets, the very thing that make guns deadly,” she said in a hearing in 2013 I reported on. When she couldn’t ban guns, she tried to ban bullets.
In 2013, Assembly Bill 48 by then-Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) passed the Assembly by a 46-26 vote and moved over to the state Senate.
Her bill would have banned the sale of magazine parts kits that can hold more than 10 cartridges, and require mandatory reporting of law-abiding citizens who purchase more than 3,000 rounds of ammunition within a five-day period.
So naturally, when she can’t get you out of your car and onto public transit, she will make tires more expensive and difficult to get.(snip)
In 2024, when Senate Democrats rejected a bill to make purchasing a child for sex a felony, Senator Nancy Skinner actually attempted to offer cover to perps for buying and selling sex:
“Selling sex has been within human cultures for millennia,” Skinner said. “It is a very difficult area of law to get into.”
Really? Was Skinner serious? The short answer is Yes.
She’s a leftist Berkeley politician, authoritarian, pro-abortion, climate change zealot, gun control nut.
Former State Senator Nancy Skinner, a Democrat from Berkeley (redundant, right?), was confirmed by the Senate in May 2025 for an appointment to the California Energy Commission. Nominated by Governor Gavin Newsom for the California Energy Commission, Skinner was an institution in the California Legislature, having served since 2008, and known for supporting some of the most radical policies: pro-abortion any time in the pregnancy, global warming, climate change and radical environmentalism. Skinner even authored SB 345 which provides legal protections for medication abortions and “gender-affirming care” – dangerous, irreversible hormone treatments for gender-confused “trans” persons.
Nancy Skinner is reason for term limits, and why voters never bargained for termed-out lawmakers to get appointments to cushy boards and commissions.
The Insanity ,LOL
Sick people rule California. Truly the land of fruits and nuts.
Oh wait that means a very large amount of tax revenue will disappear with the tires ,LOL
People buy their tires outside of California
Fugggly
One of those gross creatures right out of Atlas Shrugged, who tells everyone how they must live, and uses their money to enforce it.
Why they want President Any Twosom or Kamala.
She’s not very bright , very Evil though
And not all of them grow on trees !!
“”She’s not very bright , very Evil though””
Ugly to boot...I said it even tho’ I know “if you can’t say something nice” etc. etc. etc.
She and deLauro in CT could have a contest for “the most ugly” US lawmakers...
I did it again!!
So they'll set up inspection stations at the border for all cars registered in California. If the tread depth on your tires is more when returning to the state, they'll fine you for changing tires. Just think of the new jobs they can create!! :-)
No, this ugly hag got a check from the CCP — they need to bypass tariffs and get $$. The same thing was done on solar panels, plastic bags, light bulbs, etc. The CCP grinds out garbage products and bribes regulators to require its use.
Rats. I didn’t see you had already posted its picture.
Is she related to B.F. {Beyond Freedom and Dignity) Skinner?
Harv Nyquist will buy new radial tires outside New Pastoria and not from Vern Soaper after all.
It was a Rockford Files plot point.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0688031/
I can think of a few people who would kill for an opportunity like that.
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