More Folly from the land of fruits and nuts

In a press release from SEMA, click here, we discover that those mental midgets Sen. D. Feinstein (D-CA) and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) are trying to pass legislation to crush newer vehicles that use, in their opinion, too much gas. This is not a clunker program, they want you to crush your Hummer in order to buy a Prius, or some other mode of clown transportation. Please note the common denominator between these two-D-CA!

Apart from the overall idiocy of this program, they don't even think it through. They do not take into account the energy already expended to create the subject vehicle, and the energy it will take to destroy it.

Also in California, thousand of "Mom and Pop" businesses are opting out of the gas-vending business as new pumps, required by law, are too expensive for them to support. (Click here for more)
From the article,

April's regulations promise to cut what are known as reactive organic gas emissions by 7 tons per day statewide, but opponents point to the fact that California produces 2,322 tons of such gases per day.

Please note that all this carnage will yield an improvement of .003% in emissions.

Both measures will benefit the car companies and large gas retailers. Makes you wonder who is lobbying for this nonsense.

All this from a state that is undergoing a net exodus of taxpayers and businesses seeking to avoid stringent taxes imposed upon them by an out-of-control nanny state.

In recent years California has gone from the 4th largest economy in the world, to a projected budget deficit of $40 Billion.

Arnie, please don't be back!