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RMc @ Feb 8th 2008 9:27AM
Dear God of Cars,
Please give Subaru (and others) the technology and insight to get NOx emission within the ridiculous levels set forth by CARB so that we Americans can enjoy these lovely new diesels.
Thanks,
RMc
psarhjinian @ Feb 8th 2008 9:43AM
The NOx levels by CARB are perfectly reasonable. If you'd spent any time in a major Californian city--especially in the 1980s--you'd understand why CARB is such a hardliner about this.
If you live in some flyover state in the midwest where there just you, your 1970's pickup truck and blue sky for hundreds of miles around, you might have trouble understanding CARB's take. Since California collectively has more people, buys more cars and drives more miles than any other state, they get to dictate terms.
California _alone_ is the sixth to eighth largest economy on earth. That's bigger than Canada or Mexico and much of Western Europe. It's certainly more than any other state in the US. If you think California (and the tax its citizens pay) is somehow a burden to the rest of the US, I'd be really amused to see how badly the rest of the country would do if they seceded.
The automakers aren't about the piss off such a large market just to satisfy a handful of wingnuts in other states.
(note, I'm not from California. I'm not even American)