19 Replies to “Please Be True”

  1. Yeah, I don’t think the National Govt can do this without violating State’s rights. But, here’s the thing. Libby Dole was able to get every state to raise their drinking age to 21 by legalized extortion. Essentially, she withheld federal transportation funds until the state raised the age. It worked most of the time. I’m thinking the Trump Administration will do something similar. You saw something similar to this when Trump wanted to stop funding Sanctuary Cities. Initially, a Los Angeles judge shot it down and applied an injunction. But, in July of this year it was overturned and the injunction lifted. I wouldn’t be surprised if this move is directly related to the recent decision of the appeals court.

    So, in effect they wouldn’t be stripping California of the ability to set their own emissions rules. Instead, if the Federal Govt. thinks they are ridiculous, they will hold back any federal funding that they can attach to transportation appropriations. Essentially, California…enjoy your cavernous potholes.

    1. So then … you’ve driven in my SHITHOLE of a State (sorry Kate … sometimes it is necessita) . I purchased a car once, in Florida … and for the experience and fun of it … drove it cross country, back to CA. Yeah, the next car I bought on the East Coast, I had shipped. But what an eye-opening experience. We drove through; Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona EVERY other State. The roads were gorgeous. Wide parkways, with beautiful landscaped medians and shoulders. The paving was smooth as a baby’s bottom. And… despite much of the highways being only two lanes in each direction, the drivers were polite and moved over, if I came roaring up behind them (as I am want to do). It was driving bliss.

      then

      I crossed the Colorado River into Southern CA. O.M.G! Instantly, the pavement was a crumbling mess, and the drivers complete a&&holEs. The change was SHOCKING to experience. Esp. after having come through N.AZ where the roadways were sublimely smooth asphalt. What does CAL TRANS do with all the gasoline taxes (recently jacked up) and auto registration fees (recently jacked up) … the auto-related taxes that are not STOLEN by a corrupt super-majority Communist Legislature? Pensions. Big, fat, bloated CAL TRANS pensions … thousands upon thousands of $ 6-figure SPIKED pensions that are bleeding the State dry.

      Uh, yeah … CA is gonna sorely miss every centavo that Trump swipes from my backward, 3rd world regressing State.

      1. well kenji, is it not true HUGE amounts of infrastructure dollars were diverted into the private prisons
        to prop up ye olde ‘3 strikes’?
        https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-justice-advocacy-project/three-strikes-basics/
        “California’s State Auditor estimates that the Three Strikes law adds over $19 billion to the state’s prison budget. Criminologists agree that life sentences for non-violent repeat offenders does nothing to improve public safety.”

        (psst. follow the money. you will find it in the bank accounts of the prison guard lobbyists and union)

    2. California requires an executive waiver to set it’s own vehicle emission standards, which has been in place for a long time. Trump is removing this waiver, as is the president’s prerogative. If california, or congress has a problem with it, they can attempt to put it into law at the congressional level, or take it to court if california so chooses.

      1. Xavier Becerra, the Mexican, err CA AG … LOVES to sue PDJT. Ha-vee-airh has dozens of mouth-foaming leftists Lawyers queued-up to file brief after brief, injunction after injunction against PDJT. Against the established LAWS of this Nation and State. Against the US Constitution. Hah-veigh-airh is filled with HATE and RAGE against every traditional institution of our nation. Ha-veh-airh is the 1st-Lieutenant in charge of the Reconquista Trojan Horse. Slaughtering my Nation and State from within our borders.

    3. US Federal law is supreme. End of story. States can not choose their own foreign policy, either.

  3. TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SET TO ANNOUNCE Thursday that they will separate California from the continental United States. San Andreas Fault in accordance with plan.

  4. I sold cars back in the 90’s, and was thus given the opportunity to grasp the rip-off that is “California emissions.” I sold a 93 Jeep Cherokee to a lady who moved to California six months later. In trying to register the vehicle in Redding, she was told she had to get it emissions tested first. When she went to get it tested, she was told they couldn’t test it because it did not have a California emissions sticker. In desperation, she phoned me to see if I knew of any solutions.
    Now, it just so happened that I had the phone number of the head of emissions compliance for ALL of Chrysler Corp. This guy was a Big Kahuna. The fact that I had his number is an interesting tale in itself, for another day. I told Mr. Parent of my customer’s dilemna, and asked if any solutions might be at hand. He chuckled and told me to tell my customer to sell her car. Then he said “Every car and truck we build meets California emissions. The difference is in the (emissions) testing cycle, and we simply add the cost of that separate testing regimen to all California vehicles, along with a sticker.”
    Ain’t big government grand?

  5. Perhaps California can redirect its focus to the human emissions in its fourth-most-populous city (that would be San Francisco).

  6. The special status accorded to CARB California Air Resources Board to set emissions for California and then see them adopted across an entire industry has been especially debilitating to the trucking industry.
    By 2010 the emission standards set by CARB had truck builders scrambling to supply engines that would meet the new rules. The engines from that era did not run properly and needed constant repair. Caterpillar simply ceased building truck engines because they knew the emission standards were impossible to achieve.
    To this day a truck with pre emission standards will sell at a premium to a newer truck and what had been achieved by CARB?
    Truck engines that didn’t work and burned way more fuel than the older engines.

    1. People are spending over 100 grand totally rebuilding old trucks that don’t have to meet current emission standards. There is also a craft business reprogramming new trucks to burn way less fuel with more power. I assume this only works in jurisdictions without emissions testing.

  8. …Truck engines that didn’t work and burned way more fuel than the older engines…”

    Funny that. Same thing has happened in the 2500-3500 series of Diesel Trucks.
    2000-2004. Most LB7 Equipped Duramx’s could easily get (with proper tire pressure – tire size – tire type), achieve an easy 24 mpg’s doing 65mph. (unloaded vehicle).

    As emissions standards got sticter and added more and more GARBAGE to these vehicles…fuel efficiency dropped and one ends up burining more fuel.

    Mine is an 06 LBZ Duramx – Ive eliminated the EGR, Catalytic converter, Muffler to open up the exahaust along with larger intake air system …and can easily attain 20-20.5mpg at 65mph. (unloaded).

    The newest versions of these trucks are getting at best . 16-17mpgs. And have to add DPF fluids on a regular basis

    Wheres the benefit..? There aint none.
    Same story with Ethanol.. Just ask yourself why Costco can sell Regular Gas at 4-6 cnts/litre less than Esso or anyone else.?? (Ethanol – which will absolutely reduce your mileage). All of it, policy formulated by those…not one of which has a degree or any understanding whatsoever about Fuels and Btu/Litre or Gallon.

    Its all unicorn farts and faery dust BS mandated by Eco-Fascists.

  9. States rights and all that shit. Just don’t sell cars to CA. That should be fairly simple and one year later the government has changed their minds and you have just unloaded the entire overstock in CA. A win for all automobile manufactures. Fact, you as a company do not have to sell your product anywhere in the state.

  10. and another thing.
    californicate emissions driven (pun intended) by air quality on the burbank freeway . . . . . . .
    working their way to friggin *northern ontariowe*?
    huh??
    yep !!!

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