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Posted on 07/03/2009 5:46:03 AM PDT by reaganaut1
[California] has regulated and spent itself into a well of debt so deep it makes the economic situation in the other 49 states seem not half-bad.
But instead of putting a chokehold on California's run-amok bureaucrats, the federal government just gave them the go ahead to impose California-specific fuel economy and emissions control requirements on new cars sold there, beginning with the 2016 model year. California has long wanted to demand that new cars achieve 40 mpg, on average -- 5 mph higher than the "49 state" requirement recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama.
Now there will be two sets of differing requirements for the flatlined auto industry to cope with: One for cars sold in CA, one for cars sold everywhere else. Maybe several different requirements, since a number of states have expressed interest in either following CA or maybe passing requirements of their own.
So, instead of building a single car to sell everywhere in the United States, the car companies will have to build some cars for CA, some for other states. Which of course will make them more expensive for everyone, since it costs more to build a "California Corolla" and a slightly different one for, say, Texas -- instead of just a Corolla that's sold everywhere.
The other option is for the industry to build all its cars to meet the CA standard and then sell them everywhere. But here again, state laws tend to be slightly different from state to state -- and it will take lots of billable hours for the lawyers to sort it out and then more time and money frittered away by designers and engineers trying to make it all work. Which means, probably, it'll cost you more, too.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Texas model is an F-150.
Of course there will have to be provisions made for those special cases where a person needs a larger,comfortable vehicle because of his importance in spreading the socialist propaganda.
People are so gullible,and none more so than those who pay $100 for concert tickets to hear millionaires masquerading as hippies and cowboys sing about being poor and hard times.Barbara Streisand at least doesn't pretend to be "one of us".
Great Idea.
Smart cars. Motorcycles. Scooters.
We will be riding bicycles and living on turnips... just wait. Washington will continue to be the imperial city and the rest of the country just a big communal plantation populated by tax-slaves and future tax-slaves (their children).
Yeah but the Cow Horn hood ornament adds $1,252.92 to the cost of that F-150...
The industry has been building cars specifically for the California market since the early 1970s. What is interesting now is that this is the second time they will simply refuse to comply. The first was with the "zero emissions vehicle" standards that got the State sued. Saturn produced the product looking to corner the market and the State simply failed to enforce the standard.
Not if you run over them on the side of the road!
Except that Ford will have to stop building the F-150 when the Federal 35mpg CAFE standard kicks in...(let alone the 40mpg Kali standard). Or I guess they could only equip it with a 4 cylinder.
Freedom & liberty, let the market decide...NO CAFE standards, the next time gas goes to $4. to $5. people will naturally gravitate to more fuel efficient cars, and people with the need for a V8 truck will still be able to get it. Stupid politicians...
I’ll keep my old one. :)
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