Wednesday, July 15, 2009
"Magical Thinking in California"
Governments at work.
Wouldn't you think they could put a hold on these things until things get at least bit closer to "normal" again?...
Wouldn't you think they could put a hold on these things until things get at least bit closer to "normal" again?...
Eric Peters reports at Spectator.org:
"California's a mess. A bankrupt fiasco. A state that has regulated and spent itself into a well of debt so deep it makes the economic situation in the other 49 states seem not half-bad.
But instead of putting a chokehold on California's run-amok bureaucrats, the federal government just gave them the go ahead to impose California-specific fuel economy and emissions control requirements on new cars sold there, beginning with the 2016 model year. California has long wanted to demand that new cars achieve 40 mpg, on average -- 5 mph higher than the '49 state' requirement recently passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama.
Now there will be two sets of differing requirements for the flatlined auto industry to cope with: One for cars sold in CA, one for cars sold everywhere else. Maybe several different requirements, since a number of states have expressed interest in either following CA or maybe passing requirements of their own."
