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    Default California hates cars. No- Really, they do!

    When one thinks about the lifestyle and economy of California of the 50's- through modern day, what comes to mind first? For me it is is cars. Cars are more of a status symbol in CA than in any other place I've ever been. Famous songs have sung about the California automobile, cruising was invented in California. American Graffiti was a world famous movie featuring the car culture of California. Anyone who visits California is in awe of the amazing traffic clogging the streets and highways like steel and crome cholersterol in concrete artieres.

    So my reaction to this news story was:

    YOU'VE GOT TO BE SHITTING ME!!

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060920/...nment_autos_dc
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    Oh they HAVE to be kidding! How rediculous...
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    It is April First right? I'm sure it is... and this is bizaro world perhaps? Nah not that lucky. I guess they'll go after OPEC next.
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    Reminds me of that movie "Who killed the electric car?"

    One of the causes for the death of the car was the California government it's self!!!

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    I am so damn irritated with this state, you can't imagine.

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    They might as well sue the construction companies who built the highways next. I mean if there were no roads, there would be no need for cars right?
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    Aw, now you're making me miss my lawsuit-happy lawyer-infested home state. Where the air is chunky style.

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    Quote Originally Posted by cherryripeboy
    It is April First right? I'm sure it is... and this is bizaro world perhaps? Nah not that lucky. I guess they'll go after OPEC next.
    I was kind of thinking the same thing. Like the obese guy with heart disease suing McDonald's for making him sick and fat, or smokers suing the tabacco companies for giving them lung cancer and emphesema.


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    This is no different than when California tried to impose quotas of electric cars that the auto makers HAD to sell by certain timeframes. They threatened to shut down all the dealerships or have the automakers pay heavy fines.

    Of course, the automakers never made the quotas and CA never collected, but eventually some of the automakers got the message.

    Toyota's LA based US headquarters is loaded with photovoltaic solar arrays.

    http://www.powerlight.com/success/pd...ers%20solar%22

    And Toyota just ran through the US federal quota for hybrid cars which qualify for a higher tax credit. Alas, if you want to find an excuse for buying that Lexus hybrid, don't look for the tax credit... Look for the extra horsepower!!! (not kidding, look at the specs).

    Damn, those Californians... Do they have to remind us that we need to hold people accountable for waste and pollution? Why can they do this? Um, maybe because they are the fifth largest economy in the world?


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