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)

[SunkenCiv]

California said on Monday it will halt all purchases of new vehicles for state government fleets from GM, Toyota and Fiat Chrysler and other automakers backing President Donald Trump in a battle to strip the state of authority to regulate tailpipe emissions.

Between 2016 and 2018, California purchased $58.6 million in vehicles from General Motors Corp, $55.8 million from Fiat Chrysler Automobiles $10.6 million from Toyota Motor Corp and $9 million from Nissan Motor Co.

Last month, GM, Toyota, Fiat Chrysler and members of the Global Automakers trade association backed the Trump administration's effort to bar California from setting tailpipe standards, which are more rigid than Washington's proposed national standards.

Starting in January, the state will only buy from automakers that recognize California's legal authority to set emissions standards. Those automakers include Ford Motor Co, Honda Motor Co, BMW AG and Volkswagen AG , which struck a deal with California in July to follow revised state vehicle emissions standards...

The state also disclosed it will immediately no longer allow state agencies to buy sedans powered by an internal combustion engine, with exemptions for certain public safety vehicles.

California's vehicle rules have been adopted by 13 other states.

[Husker24]

Why should we fight to keep that garbage in the Union? I say good riddance.

[SoCal Pubbie]

California sends more tax revenue to Washington DC then it gets back in federal spending. Furthermore California is not even in the top ten for welfare spending per capita.

[SunkenCiv]

I think Ford's impending EV line is what Ford has in mind for vehicle sales in CA and to the CA regime.

[Dr. Sivana]

Good, in a few years they’ll look like Cuba. Oh, wait, they already do...

Still missing premium cigars and well-maintained 1950s Chevrolets, Cadillacs and Imperials.

[SunkenCiv]

Getting those pesky peasants the hell out of the way of all the entertainment industry nitwits' vehicles (including the limos) and the ruling class is one reason for the policy.

[rcofdayton]

This will be challenged in Federal Courts and those automakers will win. Notice that California is asserting that only those automakers who ACKNOWLEDGE the right of California to set its own standards will be granted the privilege to sell to the state. In other words, they must bow to the state.

Sounds medieval doesn’t it?

[Governor Dinwiddie]

The weird thing is that New York State sits on top of the Marcellus shale formation. They have more natural gas than they could use in 100 years. But they don’t allow the extraction of this gas. They made their bed; let them lie in it.

[dynoman]

CARB is also responsible for those STUPID GAS JUGS THAT PRESSURE UP AND SPRAY ALL OVER WHEN YOU TRY TO USE THEM!!!!!!

[Responsibility2nd]

California is a failure as a socialist state. But they are a huge success as a welfare state.

 

No other state comes close to California in terms of total welfare spending

 

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  • 4.1 Los Angeles County, California
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  • 4.6 Ventura, California

 

 

More. Much much more.

[dynoman]

300 is low. We were quoted nearly 2k for a converter on a Chevrolet Cobalt. My daughter just drove it with out of state registration and it eventually migrated back to us. They put the 2k to a newer car of their own.

[Skywise]

GM and the other manufacturers should immediately pull all support for the current government fleets.

[Savage Beast]

Yes, if the ruling class can just drive those uppity peasants out of California and replace them with more compliant peasants, they will have achieved their objective--at least in California--but they will still have the uppity peasants elsewhere in the USA to deal with--at least until they can replace them too.

[House Atreides]

I’ve hear that California economy is the 5th largest in the world. Just saying.
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Perhaps today. The question is “for how long”. I suspect that, sadly, we will begin to see a decline as they gradually drive their most productive citizens and businesses away.

[Mariner]

CA remains 5th in the world, and growing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_California

[Regulator]

“Then they’ll migrate east and pollute our states worse”

They’ll find the states east of California to be far less accommodating then the squeamish limp wrists of California who let them overrun their state.

Tucson recently voted 71-29 to nix “sanctuary city” status and that’s just 60 miles from the Mexican border.

And I don’t have any problem at all with setting up border controls at Yuma, Blythe, Needles and Reno to bottle up the attempted invaders. Nothing would be funnier then seeing the Calitrash trying to talk their way out of that.

[gibsonguy]

Extortion

[Jeff Chandler]

A Mustang SUV?!!!

What’s next, a compact Camaro?

[Carriage Hill]

Good idea; I hope it works.

[patriotfury]

All liberty will quickly die, if we don’t keep the institutionalized anti-American, anti-God, anti-Constitutional socialist from “creeping” out of CA.

[headstamp 2]

[[[The state also disclosed it will immediately no longer allow state agencies to buy sedans powered by an internal combustion engine, with exemptions for certain public safety vehicles.]]]

LOL. Have the cops chasing you in golf carts.