No problemo Harry,
Just do what the latinos do, steal your pick of cars or trucks in Texas,
slip across the border past Pancho Villa land and into sunny californio. Ah!
californio, use your fake Mexico liscense plate,no drivers liscense, no
inspection sticker and stolen credit card. No insurance and no liability.The
law won't stop you cuz the jails are already full. LaRaza rules.
Richard
Maybe, but, for as long as I can remember (which depends on the
weather =), standards have always been different for California.
Indeed, certain items are different for "Calcars" and must be so
maintained, eg the Toyota Echo required iridium tipped spark plugs to
meet CA standards. These cost $15 each. Standard $3 plugs were fine
elsewhere.
The car makers will only make two cars: Calcars and everywhere else,
assuming CA has the most restrictive standards.
Terry
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>
wrote:
Obama today announced that individual states will be allowed to impose
their
own MPG standards and other environmental standards. The Bush
administration
opposed this for many years. Automobile companies objected because they
say
they cannot afford to make different kinds of cars for different states.
Obviously they cannot, therefore they will have to make all cars to meet
the
state with the highest standard, which happens to be California, which is
also the largest state with the biggest car market.
What this means, in effect, is that automobile gas mileage standards will
now be decided in Sacremento by a Republican governor. Schwarzenegger
strongly favors higher MPG standards, as well as plug-in hybrids and
other
new technology. His term ends in 2011, giving him plenty of time to
implement new standards in the present climate of accelerated political
change and rapid decision making. This will take the heat off of Obama
and
leave the Repubicans little to complain about. It is increasingly clear
to
Obama is a skilled politician. Instead of picking a fight over this
issue,
he made it the responsibility of a leading Republican. What's more,
Schwarzenegger may gain national stature and credit, but he cannot run
for
president, so he is no rival to Obama.
California may be in a position to set other efficiency standards, even
for
devices that could be manufactured differently for different states, such
as
ceiling fans. California is such a large market that every manufacturer
has
to sell to it, and once you go to the trouble to develop a high
performance
ceiling fan, you might as well sell it everywhere.
- Jed
