California, as a state of the union, has the right to adopt any emission standard it wants. We live in a confederation of states, a democratically elected republic.
If you want a totalitarian, communist state, the federal government will dictate and override those standards. States rights are where it's at baby. States can do good things and bad things as long as it doesn't interfere with the several rights outlined in the US constitution and the respective state constitution. We as a people can vote what we think by living there or leaving for another state. If California wants only little shoebox cars, that's what they'll get. Mike ________________________________ From: tyler <casi...@usermail.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 8:29:37 PM Subject: Re: [MBZ] What do y'all think? That's a slippery slope argument. In California, through the democratic process we have decided that we want to do something about our air quality problem but the federal government is trying to stop us. This statement is logically meaningless: "political changes happen in California tend to eventually happen in the rest of the country" If you don't live in California, and don't want to have the same laws, then don't vote for them! You are correct that overpopulation and geography are unique problems here, but that doesn't mean we need to pass our laws based on someone elses unique problems rather than our own! Tyler Tom Hargrave wrote: > Tyler, > > Your city is a unique situation and I understand the concern about ozone in > LA. But the rest of the country does not have the problem and unfortunately, > what political changes happen in California tend to eventually happen in the > rest of the country. So, why should the rest of us give up our preferred > mode of transportation so that LA can be rid of its smog problem? > > And the issue isn't cars anyway. Modern car exhaust puts out CO2 and water. > The issue is that LA is in a bowel surrounded by mountains that block air > circulation and there are about 3X too many people living in the area. So, > if 2/3 of the population would move somewhere else (doesn't need to be > you!!!), the problem would take care of itself. > > Thanks, > Tom Hargrave > www.kegkits.com > 256-656-1924 > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20090127/adda12f3/attachment.html> _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
