For we’re going to need it.
California seeks greenhouse-gas control
Backed by numerous environmental groups and about a dozen other states, California officials demanded federal permission Tuesday to impose their own greenhouse-gas emission controls on cars and other vehicles.
The only voice of opposition at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hearing came from an auto-industry lobbyist who deemed California’s approach “counterproductive” and said there was no proof it would help deal with global warming.
“This is more important than any issue that EPA’s going to have to face,” California Attorney General Jerry Brown told regulators who will recommend whether to give California the waiver it needs to implement its emissions law.
At least 11 other states, including Washington, are ready to follow California’s lead.
At issue is a 2002 California law that requires automakers to cut emissions by 25 percent from cars and light trucks and 18 percent from sport-utility vehicles starting with the 2009 model year.
Because if automakers already knew how to cut emissions by 25%Â in the next 14 months (when the 2009 cars will hit dealerships), Â they of course wouldn’t have already put them into current models. They’er evil you see, and need government to force them to do it.
At least if you’re a California, or Washington, legislator or a member of the eco-socialist conspiracy center. But I repeat myself.
When will these knuckleheads learn that to R&DÂ the CO2Â management equipment that would cut emissions by 25% will take a decade?
You’d think that they could at least study about how it takes a minimum of three years of R&D before a car manufacturing company can roll-out a new body style on an existing model and at least five for a new model using some the parts from an existing model.
What the hell are we electing?
So the car manufacturers stop selling cars in California.
They’ll take a financial hit, but there will soon be lots of Californians that will be all kinds of pissed at their legislature…
So what does happen if the car manufacturers can’t meet (not won’t meet) that standard? Do what Freddy says and just stop selling them? Make everyone of them a hydrogen cell vehicle for $80K each? Give everyone segways?!?!
Let’s face it, this proposal is just a disguised way of starting the elimination of hydrocarbon-fueled vehicles, which is what the greenies really want to do anyway. Electrics and hybrids not selling on their own merits? Let’s force them on the market by legislative fiat…by clamping down on carbon dioxide emissions even though the link to global warming/climate change/whatever the buzzword of the day for that effect is is tenuous at best. Guess I better stop breathing, too.
Honestly, I just cannot comprehend why the voters of my FORMER home state keep sending Governor Moonbeam back to Sacramento in other capacities. He did enough damage back in the late 70’s and early 80’s for one man. If the damage were contained only to California it would be tolerable for the rest of us who escaped…but fellow travelers in other states, unable to think for themselves, feel compelled to fall in line, too.
G.O.H., is AG Moonbeam the same one as Goobernator Moonbeam, or it it MoonBAT Brown, son of, etc?
So far, NONE of the states will pull the trigger on forbidding licensing older vehicles, so the solution is to go to a state where the sales of what you want are still legal (ID, MT come to mind), buy and license the vehicle (diesel pickups are in this soon-to-be-banned category), then take it back to Kalifornia, OR, WA or the other moonbeam states and re-license it. Your only penalty will be paying the sales tax where you buy it then having to pay the “value” tax (another sales tax in disguise) when you re-register it.
Hmmm…thought just occurred: NH has NO SALES TAX, and probably won’t subcribe to the moonbeam law either, so maybe THAT is the place to buy.
I have a contact in NH who makes regular trips to OR. Perhaps he could be convinced to do the ferrying.