Brought to You By the California Taxpayers
January 1st saw the implementation of California mandating all new vehicle sales having a "global warming score" sticker of 1-10, where 10 is a greeny self-righteous electric car driven by grown-up hippies and 1 is a gas guzzler driven by seal-clubbers/whale-harpooners. California already has strict vehicle emission standards through the process of smog check certification, so what this program hopes to achieve is unclear. But the state has an entire online eco-campaign dedicated to educating the public on how to "drive green". CO2 is a byproduct of the combustion of octane (gasoline), so a car that burns more gas to get from point A to point B would make an automobile "less" friendly to Gaia. That's a one-sentence summary of this entire wasteful government PR.
The California Resources Board defends their existence:
"This label will arm consumers with the information they need to choose a vehicle that saves gas, reduces greenhouse gas emissions and helps fight smog all at once," said ARB Chairman Mary Nichols. "Consumer choice is an especially powerful tool in our fight against climate change."Real change in CO2 emission policy would be developing transit infrastructure which is woefully inadequate in Los Angeles, the second biggest city in America where traffic is a baffling ordeal. Instead, the state has chosen to waste money on a program that has negligible value while the state budget reaches a disastrous deficit and teeters on bankruptcy. No wonder California is fast becoming the "get packing" state for businesses.
American Thinker weighs in on this touchy-feely legislation as well.
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