Replying to a message of John Massey to All:

 JM> Just this one policy initiative from PrezBo shows how out of touch he
 JM> is, and how completely beholden he is to the environmental left - a
 JM> movement dedicated to the destruction of American capitalism. Obama
 JM> has now decided that every state shall be free to set its own
 JM> environmental standards for auto emissions. This could mean as many
 JM> (though we hope not) as 50 different standards for automobile
 JM> emissions. Now how in the world is our auto industry supposed to deal
 JM> with this? One thing for sure, this will mean a rather steep climb in
 JM> the cost of automobiles. When an automaker has to meet one standard
 JM> for California, and another for Arizona, then costs can't help but go
 JM> up. This whole mess is due to leftist alarmism over man-made global
 JM> warming .. a creation of the left and something that has never been
 JM> shown outside of a computer model. This could be a death knell for
 JM> the American automobile manufacturing companies.

It ain't just cars.  In parts of California it is illegal to mow your lawn with
a gasoline powered mower (those same municipalities will also climb all over
you if you *don't* mow your lawn, and won't let you keep sheep on the property).
It is also illegal in some parts of that state to barbecue on a grill in
the back yard.
And it is illegal in some parts of that state to burn your burnable trash in an
incinerator that's made and sold for that purpose.  Dunno about wood stoves - I
do know that in some parts of Colorado they've been outlawed (apparently too many
people had them and were burning too much wood in addition to the smoke problem).

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