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    Exclamation California as the Boss of Us

    California as the Boss of Us

    https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2018...ornia-boss-us/

    By eric - February 6, 201817490

    Bad enough that we’re ordered about by the government in Washington. But what about this business of being ordered about by the government of California?

    Its befehlshaber (that’s German for order-giver) Jerry Brown just ordered the tripling – the almost quadrupling – of the of the number of electric cars which must be on the state’s roads by 2025.

    Instead of a ludicrous 1.5 million of them, it must be a preposterous 4.5 million.

    He did not suggest. Offer it up as a worthy idea. Befehlshaber Brown simply issued an executive order – a Fuhrerbefehl (that’s leader order, in German) that it will be so. In order to “curb carbon pollution from cars and trucks and boost the number of zero-emissions vehicles driven in California.”

    He means force-feed them. “Boost” them sounds gentle and voluntary, even – like a Girl Scout fundraiser or some such.

    But what has this to do with the rest of the country?

    Unfortunately, a lot.

    By decreeing that nearly 5 million electric cars must be on California’s roads by 2025 – less than seven years from now – Brown has personally imposed billions in costs on the car industry, which will have to design and build these electric cars – for which there is currently no market.

    If there were a market, such production decrees would not be needed.

    The car companies will build and design electric cars to meet their quota – just like affirmative action, only on wheels.

    But the broader point is that if the car companies are compelled to make such a massive investment in EVs, they will want to make money on the proposition.

    One way to do this is to jump on the electric car bandwagon nationally. To not only acquiesce in the CA EV idiocy but to seek its imposition countrywide, so that everyone will be compelled to buy in. In order to spread the costs around.

    People may not particularly want these electric wunderwagens, much less be able to afford them – but perhaps they can be nudged into renting them . . . perpetually.

    Especially if there is no alternative – no way to opt out.

    The model for this nudging – it’s more like a bayonet in the back – is decades-old.

    California – a huge state and the largest market for new cars in the country – decrees “California” emissions standards. It has been doing so since the ’70s. These are more severe than the “49 state” emissions car companies have to comply with outside of California.

    It is expensive to have to build two versions of the same car – a “California emissions” car and a “49 state” car for the rest of the country.

    The solution is obvious: Build one car – to California’s standards. Make everyone pay more for what California has decreed. This is already the case with regard to exhaust emissions. It will probably be the case with regard to EV production quotas.

    It will be egged on by the tendency of regulatory bureaucrats in the other 49 states to be of like mind with those in California. There is no such animal as a government bureaucrat uninterested in the expansion of his fief for the sake of the liberty of the citizenry. California bureaucrats are worse than average by this measure – but none are better.

    Thus, the bureaucrats in other states can be counted on to issue similar befehls. They have done so already with regard to California’s emissions befehls – writing their own duplicates, which then makes it a fait accompli as far as what the car companies will build.

    One size fits all.

    This is what Brown hopes – and intends – to accomplish by issuing “executive orders” – Fuhrerbefehls – that millions of electric cars will be incarnated by decree.

    No permitting market demand to decide the matter.

    As Captain Picard used to say, make it so.

    Brown has also decreed – at a cost of $2.5 billion – the erection of 250,000 electric vehicle charging stations across the state. As with the EVs themselves, if there were market demand for this, it would not be necessary to decree it. It was never necessary to decree the erection of gas stations – because there’s money to be made selling gas to people who freely wish to purchase it at market price.

    EVs – and EV charging stations – are about stealing (or transferring) money.

    The government of California is getting into the “business” of using funds extracted from the people of California, in order to erect state-owned recharging stations to further subsidize state-mandated electric cars.

    The Soviet Union didn’t disappear back in 1989. It moved West.

    And now, it’s going national.

    “We want to stay aligned with California,” said EPA official Bill Wehrum.

    Indeed.

    Fuhrer befehl – wir folgen! That’s German for: Leader command, we follow!

    Like it or not.

    And no matter where you happen to be living.
    Another mark of a tyrant is that he likes foreigners better than citizens, and lives with them and invites them to his table; for the one are enemies, but the Others enter into no rivalry with him. - Aristotle's Politics Book 5 Part 11



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    How is this going to be enforced?

    Simple: you will have no choice.


    California lawmaker wants to ban gas car sales after 2040

    http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-...176030626.html

    September 29, 2017 12:01 AM

    France and the United Kingdom are doing it. So is India. And now one lawmaker would like California to follow their lead in phasing out gasoline- and diesel-fueled vehicles.


    And this will pass handily after the next election cycle sweeps in a wave of Super Soviet rulers into the Kalifornia Single Party government:


    Think California politics is on the far-left fringe? Just wait for the next elections.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...=.aab692f5c27e

    SACRAMENTO — For those who think California politics is on the far-left fringe of the national spectrum, stand by. The next election season, already well underway here, will showcase a younger generation of Democrats that is more liberal and personally invested in standing up to President Trump’s Washington than those leaving office.

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    Won't people just move out or never visit? Seems like a quick end to their hopeful new country.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pao View Post
    Won't people just move out or never visit? Seems like a quick end to their hopeful new country.
    Nope.

    People will tolerate much, much more tyranny than this and still not run away.

    See: Jews in Germany 1938.

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    What if auto dealers choose to not sell their products in CA.

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    most of teh stupid originates in California and New York and then moves to the masses over a decade or so.
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    Trump had to donate the "right way" and hang out with the "right people" in order to do business in NYC and Hollyweird and in order to investigate and expose them.
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    ...And when I become governor, I am going to establish an EO decreeing that every democrat, liberal, and progressive medically suffers from an incurable, inoperable, degenerative mental health illness affecting ceaseless delusions, paranoia, dullardism, and psychotic tendencies and that every law enforcement personal upon contact must, for the greater safety of the public at large, place a permanent hold upon all such childish monstrosities and immediately transport them by zipline, while donning a straitjacket, into a designate zone of a state operated loony bin conveniently located inside a 86-story concrete and rubber padded building on Alcatraz.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Schifference View Post
    What if auto dealers choose to not sell their products in CA.
    If I was CEO of a major auto manufacturer, that is precisely what I would do.

    But nobody will.

    Too scared of market share and stock value losses.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Todd View Post
    most of teh stupid originates in California and New York and then moves to the masses over a decade or so.
    Stupid has natural limits when it becomes physically destructive.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Todd View Post
    most of teh stupid originates in California and New York and then moves to the masses over a decade or so.
    So now we know where to build the walls.
    Liberty is lost through complacency and a subservient mindset. When we accept or even welcome automobile checkpoints, random searches, mandatory identification cards, and paramilitary police in our streets, we have lost a vital part of our American heritage. America was born of protest, revolution, and mistrust of government. Subservient societies neither maintain nor deserve freedom for long.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pao View Post
    Won't people just move out or never visit? Seems like a quick end to their hopeful new country.
    More likely those sick commies will want someone else to pay for the junk , expensive , non green electric cars . CalExit .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Fuhrer befehl – wir folgen!
    He forgot the vowel umlauts. #disappoint #badgermanorthography
    Quote Originally Posted by Torchbearer
    what works can never be discussed online. there is only one language the government understands, and until the people start speaking it by the magazine full... things will remain the same.
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    Quote Originally Posted by pcosmar View Post
    So now we know where to build the walls.
    I think the Colorado River is going to pose some difficulties in plannings some of the walls...
    Quote Originally Posted by Torchbearer
    what works can never be discussed online. there is only one language the government understands, and until the people start speaking it by the magazine full... things will remain the same.
    Hear/buy my music here "government is the enemy of liberty"-RP Support me on Patreon here Ephesians 6:12

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    Quote Originally Posted by heavenlyboy34 View Post
    He forgot the vowel umlauts. #disappoint #badgermanorthography
    Führer befiehl, wir folgen


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    Quote Originally Posted by Todd View Post
    most of teh stupid originates in California and New York and then moves to the masses over a decade or so.
    This is true, and it not only emanates from their politics but also the transplants that move to neighboring states. Such political shifts have been happening in Nevada, Oregon and Washington State for years. Nevada will become a "blue" state its just a matter of time.

    We're being governed ruled by a geriatric Alzheimer patient/puppet whose strings are being pulled by an elitist oligarchy who believe they can manage the world... imagine the utter maniacal, sociopathic hubris!



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    Quote Originally Posted by Pauls' Revere View Post
    This is true, and it not only emanates from their politics but also the transplants that move to neighboring states. Such political shifts have been happening in Nevada, Oregon and Washington State for years. Nevada will become a "blue" state its just a matter of time.
    Troof. Lots of Cali expats come here. They don't seem to tilt the politics much tho-and usually aren't as annoying as people from the east coast.
    Quote Originally Posted by Torchbearer
    what works can never be discussed online. there is only one language the government understands, and until the people start speaking it by the magazine full... things will remain the same.
    Hear/buy my music here "government is the enemy of liberty"-RP Support me on Patreon here Ephesians 6:12

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pauls' Revere View Post
    This is true, and it not only emanates from their politics but also the transplants that move to neighboring states. Such political shifts have been happening in Nevada, Oregon and Washington State for years. Nevada will become a "blue" state its just a matter of time.
    I think you can never know with these types of of things. I never knew who Ron Paul was until I saw bumper stickers on a $#@! ton of cars in Nevada that said Google Ron Paul.



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