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California to stop buying GM, Toyota and Fiat Chrysler vehicles over emissions fight
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | November 18, 2019 | David Shepardson (editing by Tom Brown)

Posted on 11/18/2019 12:41:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv

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To: ocrp1982

Maybe his best.


21 posted on 11/18/2019 1:09:17 PM PST by ealgeone
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To: SunkenCiv

Isn’t it amazing how the Democrats have suddenly discovered the 10th Amendment?


22 posted on 11/18/2019 1:09:35 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Regulator

“No reason a state full of illegals should be entitled to ANYTHING from the other Western states. Same story for power.”

Then they’ll migrate east and pollute our states worse than they have already.


23 posted on 11/18/2019 1:11:41 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: SunkenCiv

California thinks it is more powerful than the Executive of the United States, and it is acting against the elected Executive. This fact ALONE indicates that are are already in a civil war.


24 posted on 11/18/2019 1:12:47 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Politics is the continuation of war by other means. --Clausewitz)
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To: SunkenCiv

Stories like this only make me love my old truck even more.


25 posted on 11/18/2019 1:15:00 PM PST by dgbrown
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To: SunkenCiv

Let them walk.


26 posted on 11/18/2019 1:15:21 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: redshawk

Actually, that is no longer the case. They dropped to 7th place and were still in downfall as of 2 years ago.


27 posted on 11/18/2019 1:16:40 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: Professional
An example of the Civil War’s early beginnings...

What's with this CIVIL WAR nonsense? Are you a leftist?

28 posted on 11/18/2019 1:18:02 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm ( 32:12))
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To: SunkenCiv

Hardcore institutional TDS

lol


29 posted on 11/18/2019 1:18:47 PM PST by SteveH (intentionally blank)
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To: SunkenCiv

I was going to say that Toyota should retaliate by moving their US HQ out of California ... but it turns out they already did, moving to the DFW area in 2017. Ha!


30 posted on 11/18/2019 1:19:08 PM PST by Campion ((marine dad))
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To: SunkenCiv
One thing the California ruling class might want to consider--electricity being no longer dependable--would be donkey transportation--or of course horses for the ruling class.

Equidian flatulance could be a problem, contributing as it does to global warming...so I suppose they'd be right back where they are now.

I don't know what they're going to do if electricity, fossil fuel, and animal transportation are no longer available for consideration.

I suppose they'll have to walk from place to place... Lots of California people are into hiking. Maybe that's where this is leading.

I've got it! The ruling class can continue to fly from place to place--or drive with gas guzzlers. Everyone else can just walk. Problem solved!

31 posted on 11/18/2019 1:20:27 PM PST by Savage Beast (The curse of high intelligence is watching the unintelligent fumble, uncomprehending the obvious.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Ironic that Ford is pro-Kali and GM(Obama Motors) is anti-Kali...


32 posted on 11/18/2019 1:23:51 PM PST by rhinohunter (I am Cristeros)
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To: monkeyshine

They run behind the cover of whatever serves them in the current exigency.


33 posted on 11/18/2019 1:24:03 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

They should get them some 1950’s scooters, the foot powered kind like we had as kids.


34 posted on 11/18/2019 1:26:10 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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To: SunkenCiv
Actually if it is based on what is stated in the article that sounds criminal on several levels.

State Government purchases are governed by state contracting and bid laws. California can establish criteria for bidding such as to award to a “low evaluated bidder” where some of the criteria include emissions. The could even establish thresholds of emissions that would bar certain manufacturers from bidding, but those thresholds of emissions would need to have a rational explanation and effectively blacklisting a manufacturer for political reasons would not hold up, except in a kangaroo court.

Now then comes the issue of restraint to trade and anti-trust violations. The down side for California is the anti-trust violations often have a cost of triple damages.

Again, this sounds illegal.

I remember how the courts stopped Trump's change to immigration policy because he made some comments about Muslims, even though the policy change was not specific to religion.

This should play out nicely in the new Republican appointed majority 9th Circuit court.

35 posted on 11/18/2019 1:28:02 PM PST by Robert357
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To: SunkenCiv; P-Marlowe

This sounds like “quid pro quo” or extortion. Maybe we can impeach California.


36 posted on 11/18/2019 1:28:08 PM PST by blue-duncan
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To: Erik Latranyi

$69 Catalytic Converter for 49 State cost $300 for CA.


37 posted on 11/18/2019 1:28:50 PM PST by Soros Billions (Gore is a pussy, Hillary : There's a man for ya)
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To: SunkenCiv

Sounds like CA’s pricing on Fords just went up, way up.


38 posted on 11/18/2019 1:29:42 PM PST by keat
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To: SunkenCiv

They’ll look like cuba before they realize what happened!


39 posted on 11/18/2019 1:32:14 PM PST by caww
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To: packrat35

This latest ban can’t help their falling economy.

How commie of Kali.


40 posted on 11/18/2019 1:34:30 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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