COLD SHOCK: Warming up your car illegal!

[chariot13]

We have accepted the government we have.

No, we have been force fed the government we have and it's time to throw up.

 

[Swedish K]

This garbage regulation makes marginally more sense than the CA air resources board's push to make it illegal to sell cars painted dark colors. Yes CARB did push this agenda in the last few years claiming that dark colored cars get hotter in the sun requiring the owners to run their A/C more which makes CA's carbon footprint worse. How's that for logic - you can't have a car other than yellow, white, or silver because if your car is black or otherwise a dark color you might burn an extra few gallons of gas each year to stay cool... Just more conditioning of the sheeple to conform with what .gov says.

 

[U201491]

This garbage regulation makes marginally more sense than the CA air resources board's push to make it illegal to sell cars painted dark colors. Yes CARB did push this agenda in the last few years claiming that dark colored cars get hotter in the sun requiring the owners to run their A/C more which makes CA's carbon footprint worse. How's that for logic - you can't have a car other than yellow, white, or silver because if your car is black or otherwise a dark color you might burn an extra few gallons of gas each year to stay cool... Just more conditioning of the sheeple to conform with what .gov says.

Seriously ? That does sound like CA though.
I am surprised they didnt say black cars give you cancer in CA.........

 

[bnsaibum]

This garbage regulation makes marginally more sense than the CA air resources board's push to make it illegal to sell cars painted dark colors. Yes CARB did push this agenda in the last few years claiming that dark colored cars get hotter in the sun requiring the owners to run their A/C more which makes CA's carbon footprint worse. How's that for logic - you can't have a car other than yellow, white, or silver because if your car is black or otherwise a dark color you might burn an extra few gallons of gas each year to stay cool... Just more conditioning of the sheeple to conform with what .gov says.

They aren't doing their due diligence. They should be looking at the entire chain for auto paint from raw minerals to increased need to wash the finished product. Who's to say that white paint doesn't have more of an environmental impact due to mining and refining processes and paint binders required than black paint does because you may need to use an extra nth of a percent of fuel to cool your car. I'll bet they didn't even think about the warming effects of darker colors in the winter making them marginally quicker to warm up the interior.

 

[Doc In UPlace]

Must be nice to have the power to create arbitrary rules and impose fines for infractions with virtually no oversight.

Yeah who do they think they are, anyhow? The BATFE?

 

[simon99]

So...according to their logic, because I can't warm up my lifted 4X4 1-Ton Dodge Cummins Diesel, when I perform some monster truck rally action of some liberal treehuggers Prius because I can't see out the window due to ice, that's somehow acceptable?

I must be off to never-never land.....