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Originally Posted by gtahvit
California doesn't represent the entire country. The constitution is in place so that no single organization can dictate to the rest of the country. States have thier own legislature for a reason. Nothing in our government give a state to establish federal policy or standards.
Having said that. If the president choses to use the policy of a state as the federal policy then I better get to my confressman and senators and tell them that I disagree. I know CA didn't make this decision but I don't like that the current administration isn't considering what the rest of us want.
I know my sig is anti cafe. Maybe I'll change that. I do believe in the long run it can be a good thing. It seems to me we are cutting off the big three while claiming to be helping them survive. It seems like CAFE and Federal loans are pulling the big three in different directions. CAFE is costly and restrictive and we are throwing money at them to stay alive... Hard for me to grasp right now.
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Mabe these new Federal policies are being modeled after California because of California's high standards?
I don't know about you, but I have to 'smog' my 33 year old truck every year or two, and if it doesn't pass I can't register it and it becomes illegal to drive it on public roads.
So you think that people who live out in the boonies should be able to drive their gross polluters that get 3mpg because their states have a lower poulation?
To the Obama administration, it's a 'global' issue, and California is leading by example.
Are you opposed to driving a car that gets 50mpg? Now it's GM's job to make a high mileage vehicle that people will want to buy, or they can just leave it up to Japan and Korea.
It sucks having to live by all these strict rules in California.... but we do it just fine, so why can't you?