Posted on 11/18/2019 12:41:10 PM PST by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
The single party state of California heads down the road of "states' rights" and secession. If they leave the union, no more water or electricity for the bastards.
An example of the Civil War’s early beginnings...
california :
calhealth = feces on streets
calelectricity = FIRES and blackouts (to protect windmills)
citizens = Mexican terrorists and anything else creeping in
In NY state, Fredo's older, even more violent brother is trying to control interstate commerce of the natural gas producers.
next year they may ban them from being sold there....you never know, but thats the pattern of progressives.
next year they may ban them from being sold there....you never know, but thats the pattern of progressives.
They have already - symbolically - left the Union. Unfortunately they are the biggest Welfare State in America.
They hold the records in the number of homeless people AND welfare recipients.
” If they leave the union, no more water or electricity for the bastards”
Two points...
1 - We already left the Union the day they declared the Sanctuary State
2 - I’ve been saying CA should be thrown out of the Western Interstate water compacts for a long time. No reason a state full of illegals should be entitled to ANYTHING from the other Western states. Same story for power.
California nationalists...
I’ve hear that California economy is the 5th largest in the world. Just saying.
So no Suburbans for the Governor? Maybe he can ride in a Yugo....
They will never leave. The rats would never win another election without their EC votes.
Good, in a few years they’ll look like Cuba. Oh, wait, they already do...
I’m sorry to not see Ford and others on that list.
Is Toyota really going to care about $10 million from California? They probably spill that much coffee in a year.
How many miles of range does an armored Nissan Leaf on full charge get? 12? 4? .5? Surely the gov’ner and the important people will give up their vast SUVs. Or are the excluded/better than everybody else?
Didn’t Ford just showoff it’s Mustang Electric Golf cart
If California has already seceded from human civilization.
California’s separate emissions standards are no longer necessary and unconstitutional.
They were granted a waiver that basically said we allow you to interfere in interstate commerce so you can fix your pollution problem.
The problem has been fixed, but CARB (California Air Resources Board) has grown into a multi-billion behemoth that is abusing manufacturers and is corrupt to its core.
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