Sorry, but you’re probably not even Canadian. You don’t even know, bud! No maple syrup, no beaver in the backseat, as a french-canadian it doesn’t sound like that guy even offered the officer a poutine or Tim Bit.

Actually, if you’ve ever been here, it’s the transplants that are the worst. Californians are great people. Which is why it’s the best state in the land, asshole. We’re leaders, not luddite morons. And, our state no longer flirts with bankruptcy because our Democratic governor worked our shit out. Unique states have…

Fortunately the electoral college doesn’t apply to market share or buying power. California alone buys 13% of all new cars. Throw in the other CARB states (you know, the states with money), and it approaches half. CARB will reign supreme. There’s zero incentive for California to back down, environmentally or…

Far too big a market, especially with the other 11 CARB states. His hope has a decent chance of becoming reality, yours has none.

There were over 2 million new cars registered here last year. There were approximately 17.5 million new cars sold in the entire US last year - that means we alone account for more than 10% of cars sold.

Or better yet, just don’t build cars for sale in California and Massachusetts.

Fucking leave then

California’s economy is actually booming since they put a democrat in office and took control of both chambers of the state legislature. It’s financial house is rapidly improving.

Is it really all waste, though, if it serves the public good in the states that follow CARB regulations?

Right but the reason CARB exists is because historically the federal standards have been too soft. Do you actually think Trump would agree to Euro6? Hell no. So CA needs to do what it needs to do in order to take care of its own environmental issues.

Sure, states’ rights are bullshit except when y’all are talkin’ about the civil war, right? ;)

Actually California’s requirements are much closer to the rest of the world. Its the US federal regs that are the global anomaly.

there’s also a little known place called ‘europe’ that seems to actually give a fuck or two about the environment and kids being able to breathe the air outside and what not... now, admittedly they don’t tend to buy a lot of the crap that the US automakers are building (mainly on account of it being crap,) but i’m…

Frankly, the CARB states drive the US market. It’s not just California (which is an economy so big, it would be among the top ten worldwide if it were an independent country), but also New Jersey, New York, Washington, and a bunch of others. Arizona, even (yep, despite being a deep red state politically - they have…

California has the sixth largest economy in the world.

California has a unique environmental situation compared to most of the country. Just look at old photos and you will see they need better emissions then the rest of the country

Have fun going out of business then; when people in a baker’s dozen of states - generally some of the more affluent states of the nation - can’t buy your cars, they’ll buy cars from other automakers that are happy to supply them.

Yeah, its getting really annoying. Comments seamlessly blending into another article is no bueno. #MakeTheCommentSectionGreatAgain