Posted on 01/26/2009 12:52:59 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Washington, CA (AP) --
President Barack Obama is asking federal regulators to reconsider tougher emissions standards that California and at least a dozen other states have been seeking for years.
It marks a sharp departure from Bush administration policy on the environment.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has championed the tougher tailpipe standards since 2005, says Obama's swift action shows the environment now has a strong ally in the White House.
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Conan the RINO!
Idiots, the lot of them.
I wish the automakers would just say “eff California,” and make their cars however they want. Sooner or later, Californians would get tired of driving old beaters, and maybe, just maybe, return to common sense.
How many car companies will decide that they no longer need the California market or will limit the number of models that they sell there?
I hate to say it, but let CA and other idiot states set the bar so high that they drive out business and make poor people walk. That is the only way the People will stop electing these rich pie-for-everyone fools who don’t give a damn about them or the environment.
The unspoken (mostly, anyway) agenda is to get us out of our cars and into mass transit buses and light rail. The Libs don’t care about the auto builders.
LLS
“Conan the RINO!”
He stopped being worthy of the Conan mantle long ago.
He has sullied the fictional character enough.
I fear greatly that I will not be able to buy a new Corvette in the future, or it will be greatly dumbed down, or cost way more then it should. IF they even make them at all.
Or maybe even tell me my 06 needs to go.
Scary times.
For those reasons, manufacturers will build for Kalifornia. Tougher rules in other states won't have the same appeal, however, and if a state decides to burnish their green creds by outdoing Kalifornia, they will get a rude awakening.
Also, this reporting seems to be a backoff from the "all states get to decide" position ... is Bambi feeling the heat? Now he's simply "exploring the possibility?"
Naturally! That way, Ahnold can set his own “standards” and tax the hell out of anybody he wants! AH, California! Bankrupted by 20 million Mexicans and 1 German.
“How many car companies will decide that they no longer need the California market or will limit the number of models that they sell there?”
Unfortuantely, none.
California is a big market, and I think I read there are actually 13 states that alread want to enforce stricter standards.
That’s the political ploy here: don’t force the issue from a fed level, just let a few states do it for you. In practice there’s no way the car makers are gonna make 2 levels of cars, so the result is the same: Total obedience.
Aside from the automobile industry question here, let’s ask another one: If states get to decide on their own about emissions, can we decide on our own about abortion? How about whether we pay federal income tax? How about prayer in schools? This could be a good thing...
I remember back in 1966 when almost all cars were American and German. They Clamped down on emissions and Japan was fastest at the quick fix. American cars became gutless with the smog devices until about 1972. Then when the first gas crunch hit in the mid 70’s, everybody jumped on buying the little Japanese cars.
Instead of one controlling authority in Washington DC, we would have 50 different ideas competing. It is chaos but is the foundation of our constitution. Gov’t was designed to be inefficient and slow.
Let’s see how many different varietals of gasoline we can come up with in the next 4 years.
holy cow
Tell me one Republican thing about Arnold.
“I remember back in 1966 when almost all cars were American and German. They Clamped down on emissions and Japan was fastest at the quick fix. American cars became gutless with the smog devices until about 1972. Then when the first gas crunch hit in the mid 70’s, everybody jumped on buying the little Japanese cars.”
That gave them a foothold but they consolidated it by building much better machines for a long period of time. Americans have closed a lot of the gap but the Japanese are still ahead.
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