California banning "high" rolling resistant tires

[pentode]

Let's just try to center more on the actual ban and its details and ramifications.

I've been praying for that for years. Apparently, God doesn't want to do that yet. Make them suffer through wildfires and earthquakes and their own stupidity for a while first.

 

[MISWFL]

I was always surprised they had an emissions test but no safety.

I'd say let's all just hold everyone to a reasonable standard on both but "reasonable" and government don't seem to go together. I still don't believe a 65 Impala, starting today, can ever create as much pollution as it takes to make one Tesla, but I'm open to being proven wrong.

In my non college educated opinion, an existing older vehicle that's more dirty to drive still generates far less pollution than building a new modern cleaner running vehicle every 3-5+ years. It takes a lot of energy and materials to build a new vehicle vs keeping older ones on the road.

 

[Li'l Work Truck]

I love how the corporations and the government agree on what the average person has to do, but if you find a way around it, you're a criminal.

 

[superj]

And they don't follow any of their rules.

 

[MISWFL]

And they don't follow any of their rules.

Don't even get me started on the whole: rules for thee, but not for me thing.

I remember living in Cali when the governator ( who I voted for ) ended the current yearly rolling exemption of smog testing, which was at 1976 at the time, back to 1975 & permanently keeping it there. He also doubled the base vehicle registration fee from $40 a year to $80, overnight and retroactively. I also remember reading a Hot Rod article or editorial by David Freiburger during that time talking about how the governator was driving around in a Hummer with an illegal engine. I don't remember the specifics, if it was federally illegal or just in California.

That and some other CARB BS ( their war on post 1975 carbureted vehicles ) made me decide to permanently leave California.