“I’ve got not love for Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein is way better. I don’t get why there’s so much love for BS at all when YF exists. “

I would love to give Mel Brooks a Laurel and Hardy handshake regarding this masterpiece.  

Very timely to be discussing a movie about a rapacious capitalist mediocrity enriching himself by driving the residents out of the institutions they built.

Scatus Pack

As I said: “Generally...” It can easily be argued that both the states and the feds have an interest in controlling pollution. But in this case, the feds are arguing that the states shouldn’t have any control over pollution that happens locally, simply because the source of that pollution was the result of interstate…

So it’s OK for someone to force everyone else to do something

TL;DR: Do YOU want to pay $3500-$4500 more in Ypsilanti because some douche in LA voted for tighter restrictions?

In reality we’ve had two different regulations for decades: Federal and Cali+13 other states. From a practical standpoint, you’d never see a lot of different regulations because auto makers would refuse to build and sell to those markets. You are arguing to an extreme that would never happen. And California standards…

You don’t get to call California intolerant while simultaneously telling them to negotiate with the rest of the country.

And it never would have been an issue if this administration hadn’t chosen to be capricious in their regulation by trying to roll back absolutely anything that Obama put into effect...

Except California doesn’t set standards for anyone else, only for themselves.

California was granted express permission to set its own standards by the government. States may choose to follow federal guidelines or California guidelines. The EPA adopted California guidelines in 2016.

Equating emissions standards to slavery is one hell of a strong take, man.

So the manufacturers can keep doing what they’re doing and make one vehicle that meets the higher standard.

California originally established CARB and set their own mpg and emissions standards in direct response to overwhelming and deadly air pollution. At the time the Federal government was not responsive to California’s request for higher standards. So the state decided that it had to take decisive action.

You’d think that it would be in the best interest of everyone to have a single standard that is set across the board, and incentivize people from California/NY/WA etc to work with more of the country to drive forward MPG standards.

The wrong side is the one that makes you look like a Captain Planet villain.

no. if it were up to the congressional delegations of the mooch states, we’d all be driving carbureted cars that belch unburnt gasoline.

They’re limited to two standards already. Congress set this limit, under the Clean Air Act, to reflect the fact that California set emissions standards before the feds. Then they limited this to require any states wishing to adopt standards stronger than the federal standards to adopt California’s.

I’m disappointed by how many of these are obviously fake this year :(