I’d love to see every gov’t car and truck in the whole state of Washington sit idle because they don’t have break shoes/pads. If every mfr just said, “Hey, it’ll cost too much, ain’t gonna do it,” you can bet the regs/laws would quickly be obliterated. Capitalism works if you let it. When the regs mandate something too expensive, just don’t make it. Let the gov’t try to find the replacements. But all the mfr’s would have to say the same thing. Just one won’t do it.
But it seems really hard for people to understand the long term costs/losses vs. the short term gains. Just how long do you think the state of Californicate’s gas blending regs would last if the gas companies said, “Sorry, only one blend available. Buy it or don’t run your vehicles.” I suspect it wouldn’t take 48 hours before someone called a special emergency session of the legislature to hastily make changes. That is if any of the legislators could find a bicycle to pedal to get to the capitol.
I just think that the mfr.’s should first just refuse to go along and refuse to sell to the gov’t. The public aren’t the ones making the regs. So what would the gov’t do? Force the mfr to make the product and sell it to the gov’t?
Oh, wait...
The gas companies have said, sorry only one blend available. We all get the CA blend. The oil companies are happy to sell the most expensive blend and charge the prices for it, too. All the western states burn the CA blend, whether they know it or not.
“I’d love to see every gov’t car and truck in the whole state of Washington sit idle because they don’t have break shoes/pads.”
...and there’s a business reason for it. If I ran a company that provided these products, I’d want to be TOTALLY CONVINCED that the alternate materials were safe (which they cannot be). If not, the company would be at huge risk of a lawsuit as people start crashing all over the place.