"We embrace federalism and the role of the states, but federalism does not mean that one state can dictate standards for the nation."
NOBODY is dictating anything. One state reached an agreement (voluntary) with the car makers for standards. NOBODY is saying the rest of the country has to join in. NOBODY has to buy a vehicle from one of the signatories.
I am so tired of stupidity and its hold on the USA.
Your characterization of the half of this country that you despise is about as strong as your dependence on Wonkette for news aggregation. Needless to say, there's an inverse correlation.
Professor Jonathan Haidt (hardly a rightwinger) says himself that leftists are uniquely incapable of predicting the behavior of people whose politics differs from their own. While centrists, libertarians and conservatives generally understand how leftists operate, leftists derive their entire understanding of the morals of conservatives from grotesque generalizations trotted out by their preferred media outlets. (And leftists are far more dependent on partisan media than others. While conservatives resort to conservative media about 60-70% of the time, and centrists use it 30-40% of the time, liberals turn to leftist media 95% of the time.)
No wonder the echo chambers are 100X more entrenched at sites like Wonkette than they are on Daily Wire.
I would argue oil companies and Saudi Arabia are more short sighted and blinded by greed and or just dont care than evil. Trump I geniuenly thinks hates the envirnoment and gets off on destroying it.
GM announces they're killing off their hybrids in the same week oil prices spike after world's largest oil refinery getting blown up set the stage for Saudi/Iran war. Nice timing there....
California's more stringent standards allow auto makers to use California as a testing ground for emission controls. Californians get to have the bugs worked out of cars that are still under warranty. Californians get cleaner air, the rest of the U.S. gets more reliable cars when federal standards catch up to California's. California's standards aren't just good for the air, they're good for automakers and car buyers in the other 49 states.
I grew up on So Cal in the '70s, south of Los Angeles. I hated going to Los Angeles. As soon as we started coming down into the basin, my eyes would start stinging. I don't live in Cali anymore, but I went to a conference in LA about 10 years ago. I was a little nervous about going there. Turned out to be no reason to worry - the air was as clean as it is in urban Missouri.
You don’t need the fairness doctrine. The left controls the vast majority of the media ( broadcast and print ). The national news media is basically the communications arm of the Democratic Party & the left.
Tax credits for electric cars that no one wants or can afford. The state of California is demanding electric cars even thoughthe auto companies lose money on them.
Depends on the price of gas. High prices produce less driving and are aburden on the poor. Low prices with high efficiency mileage produces more driving milesand less of a burden on the poor.
"We embrace federalism and the role of the states, but federalism does not mean that one state can dictate standards for the nation."
NOBODY is dictating anything. One state reached an agreement (voluntary) with the car makers for standards. NOBODY is saying the rest of the country has to join in. NOBODY has to buy a vehicle from one of the signatories.
I am so tired of stupidity and its hold on the USA.
Your characterization of the half of this country that you despise is about as strong as your dependence on Wonkette for news aggregation. Needless to say, there's an inverse correlation.
Professor Jonathan Haidt (hardly a rightwinger) says himself that leftists are uniquely incapable of predicting the behavior of people whose politics differs from their own. While centrists, libertarians and conservatives generally understand how leftists operate, leftists derive their entire understanding of the morals of conservatives from grotesque generalizations trotted out by their preferred media outlets. (And leftists are far more dependent on partisan media than others. While conservatives resort to conservative media about 60-70% of the time, and centrists use it 30-40% of the time, liberals turn to leftist media 95% of the time.)
No wonder the echo chambers are 100X more entrenched at sites like Wonkette than they are on Daily Wire.
I would argue oil companies and Saudi Arabia are more short sighted and blinded by greed and or just dont care than evil. Trump I geniuenly thinks hates the envirnoment and gets off on destroying it.
i keep expecting to see him tweeting about missing strawberries
When you live in a desert then you don't care about birds.When you live in computer-run market systems then you don't care about living things.
I don't rely on Wonkette for news aggregation, just snark. But thanks for the tarot reading!
GM announces they're killing off their hybrids in the same week oil prices spike after world's largest oil refinery getting blown up set the stage for Saudi/Iran war. Nice timing there....
California's more stringent standards allow auto makers to use California as a testing ground for emission controls. Californians get to have the bugs worked out of cars that are still under warranty. Californians get cleaner air, the rest of the U.S. gets more reliable cars when federal standards catch up to California's. California's standards aren't just good for the air, they're good for automakers and car buyers in the other 49 states.
Trump plans to make California Smutty again:
https://media.giphy.com/med...
I grew up on So Cal in the '70s, south of Los Angeles. I hated going to Los Angeles. As soon as we started coming down into the basin, my eyes would start stinging. I don't live in Cali anymore, but I went to a conference in LA about 10 years ago. I was a little nervous about going there. Turned out to be no reason to worry - the air was as clean as it is in urban Missouri.
6 of one, half-dozen of the other....
That is a pretty interior. I just picked the Mk V because when I was a kid that was the sign that you had "made it." Even more than a Caddy.
You don’t need the fairness doctrine. The left controls the vast majority of the media ( broadcast and print ). The national news media is basically the communications arm of the Democratic Party & the left.
Good point, as long as it does not interfere with interstate commerce.
Tax credits for electric cars that no one wants or can afford. The state of California is demanding electric cars even thoughthe auto companies lose money on them.
Depends on the price of gas. High prices produce less driving and are aburden on the poor. Low prices with high efficiency mileage produces more driving milesand less of a burden on the poor.