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 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.>>>> i hope we can suck it all up here in PA.
So typical of the spoiled brat to take their marbles and go home.
The pols of CA need to be removed and replaced and all these freaks on the left within government fired and kicked to the curb.
Exactly correct. All political expediency all the time. No principled positions, just what suits their ambition.
“Used to be fully 1/5th of the US economy. “
Never was that proportion.
Maybe WWII? But, doubt it.
I don’t see the relevance of your link to the size of the CA economy.
Or, does you hatred just compel you to say bad stuff about the state that anchors the US economy?
CA is heading for a fall and only those blinded cannot see it. The drive to stop global warming and the gas engine will kill off the economy fairly soon.
It's not going to work out for them though.
Once the Calipornication Latinos start to purge the white libs, we need to be ready to keep them out of our respective states' politics (by any means necessary).
“CA is heading for a fall and only those blinded cannot see it. The drive to stop global warming and the gas engine will kill off the economy fairly soon.”
When?
What does your prediction of failure look like?
And if it does fail, it will take down the entire national economy.
I saw that the other day. It figures it would be an anti-Trump protestor who did it.
I'm sure the two Demwits making the attack had police backing them up.
No doubt about that, especially in California.
Thanks Erik.
The sacrifices our dear Leader makes for his subjects is inspiring!
It’s pure narcissism, Lord of the Flies style. The left always eats their own. They will learn the hard way.
You do understand that California is the state with the largest population, right? And the concept of per capita, right?
https://www.foxbusiness.com/features/states-that-spend-the-most-on-welfare
Yes the government of California is totally messed up. Still, I prefer facts over “truth.”
Take all government autos away from CA government employees. Jerry Brown was a first class nut case but I believe he drove an old Plymouth the first time he was in the Governor’s mansion.
“So no Suburbans for the Governor? Maybe he can ride in a Yugo....”
No, he can have Jose or Manuel pull him around in a rickshaw.
I”ll be that the regulations cost a hell of a lot more than the paltry $58.6 million that they might lose.
People will just go to states like Oregon to buy vehicles and pay no sales tax (in the thousands).
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