Welcome To The New Era Of Government Controlling Everything! Now California May Ban Black Cars!

Aren't enough people moving out of California already?

— JMB1013 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/26/2009 11:22:24 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6   

Where I live in Orange County people are moving in, not out.

Maybe these enviro wimps would like to go to war over banning black cars?

— EL34 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/27/2009 12:51:23 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

"why not just remove the engine too and have people peddle the car around..."

flinstones, meet the flinstones...

— 100octane (View Profile)

Posted on 3/27/2009 7:11:50 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

you don't cool the OUTSIDE of the car

idiots

Don't lawmakers have better things to do? I see how California can save some $$ with a few cuts

— Gambit (View Profile)

Posted on 3/26/2009 8:26:33 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6   

hasant california ruined the driving experience enough.

— 1UAW (View Profile)

Posted on 3/26/2009 8:49:36 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 7   

The problem is that this is a virtually impossible attempt unless there are incentives available. :)

— WorldofLuxury (View Profile)

Posted on 3/26/2009 9:11:26 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Cars? House roofs I can understand, but cars???

— t_bone (View Profile)

Posted on 3/26/2009 9:11:59 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

Racists.

— Jordanski (View Profile)

Posted on 3/26/2009 9:21:29 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

Liberal State that should secede from the lower 48.

Are you REALLY surprised by this?

— kablaam (View Profile)

Posted on 3/26/2009 9:50:19 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Black cars do get hotter and take longer to cool. They also suck to keep clean. But the government has no business telling us what color our cars should be.

— crslmn (View Profile)

Posted on 3/26/2009 9:58:26 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 5   

For a second here, I thought it was April 1st. There are plenty of other things to ban in California, if you ask me. But this is ludicrous.

— 1evlaudi (View Profile)

Posted on 3/26/2009 11:37:22 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

It's because of the environmentalists that I don't recycle anything any longer when I can get away with it.

They can go straight to hell!

— EL34 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/27/2009 12:49:54 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Damn communists.

— Jordanski (View Profile)

Posted on 3/27/2009 1:06:44 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

If they didn't have such strict regulations on window tint, then this whole issue would be resolved.

— adamsaf723 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/27/2009 1:22:59 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

How about banning California legislators who waste time and energy drumming up ridiculous, needless and self-righteous ideas such as this one?

— 204E60 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/27/2009 2:02:08 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 6   

This is what you get when you have one party in power, no check in balance and this is just the beginning. Now you voted in CHANGE, hold on...

— inspirion7 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/27/2009 2:14:27 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

In their defense my white Mini is much cooler on the inside on a sunny day than my friend's black Mini. Arnold needs to do something about the other branches of government in that state, maybe storm their chambers in full Conan uniform.

— rigid (View Profile)

Posted on 3/27/2009 7:51:27 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

what about at night? and white cars would be worse, b/c they reflect heat and light back into the atmosphere and "warms" up the earth. either way this law is stupid, and almost fascist.

— lexusrox123 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/27/2009 9:12:05 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

LOL, so cali has banned, glowing pet fish, hand weeding, texting while operating a train and now black cars. Seriously? That state's gov't is all types of jacked up.

— The675Griffin (View Profile)

Posted on 3/27/2009 9:46:47 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

So dark-colored cars are effectively out. Where does it stop? Commercial buildings? Houses? Clothes? I can see 2 liberal groups clashing on this: the lawyers representing the NAACP will claim that this legislation is somehow racist, while the tree huggers will defend it!

— hybridfarce (View Profile)

Posted on 3/27/2009 9:48:45 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hx8kBQ4A7Ys&feature=PlayList&p=B4B5C108

— M53R (View Profile)

Posted on 3/27/2009 10:28:13 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Oh theyve been doing this stupid crap for ages, why don't we have diesels here in America..... (try a RIDICULOUS emissions reg)

Just wait, soon enough, they will mandate radios have no more than 10watt output and not be able to do anything but play NPR.

Then power windows/lock will go away since they drain power.

Then power/heated/cooled seats are going to be illegal.

Does anyone else think this CO2 thing is absolutely bogus?

— neutral (View Profile)

Posted on 3/27/2009 10:47:13 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 4   

And fat people in shorts aren't exactly known for treadmill tolerance.

— Jordanski (View Profile)

Posted on 3/29/2009 1:24:38 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

Thank you - Basically Austrian People are Germanic Anyways, just like most Swiss, peeps from Luxembourg and Leichtenstein...just like the original colonial inhabitants or North America are all Anglo (British English) Saxon.

— TECHGEEK (View Profile)

Posted on 3/27/2009 1:05:48 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

How can anybody say that Arnold Schwarzenegger hates anything that is black? After all, his last name is Schwarze-negger. 'Schwarze' is German for Black, and 'Negger' is phonically indistinguishable from... well...

— Jordanski (View Profile)

Posted on 3/29/2009 1:22:10 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

arnold is a RINO: a republican in name only.

— lexusrox123 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/31/2009 10:40:11 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Racist.

— Jordanski (View Profile)

Posted on 3/29/2009 12:56:29 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

bigIdiot speaks from experience, being an ex-jailbird pedophile. ;)

— XYZZ (View Profile)

Posted on 3/29/2009 1:09:22 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

No XYZZ, hes just a bigot.

— Jordanski (View Profile)

Posted on 3/29/2009 1:26:43 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 0   

Whats next, The banning of black people in the state of California? "...because our skin contains an increased melanin (ability to "absorb" sunlight), resulting in a higher body temperature; thus increasing our need(s) for air excising devices."

— Jordanski (View Profile)

Posted on 3/28/2009 12:22:38 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 3   

politicians were too afraid to even propose a substantial gas tax that would have pushed manufacturers to utilize these technologies without regulations forcing them to.

— 1995e34 (View Profile)

Posted on 3/28/2009 10:48:48 AM | reply to this comment | Votes: 2   

This is definitely a "slippery slope" issue, perhaps a few lunges in the wrong direction will mobilize people to push back, it ultimately could be good in the long run

— Jaybrn (View Profile)

Posted on 3/28/2009 12:09:15 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Do you know how much Energy is expended in manufacturing a new vehicle ?

It makes more sense to drive a vehicle till it is no longer able to go further as opposed to crush a working vehicle and replace it with a new one.

— I95SPEEDINGTICKETS (View Profile)

Posted on 3/28/2009 11:33:02 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

Sounds like something Nancy Pelosi and Obama would propose. Total lunacy in Sacramento but as we know, Arnold is really a member of the tribe, not a Republican!

— bgagliano (View Profile)

Posted on 4/2/2009 8:46:57 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

I suppose black hair, black shoes, black pants/skirts/shirts/ties/shirts/skateboards/cellphones/candy/licorice/sports uniforms/watchbands/bracelets/stockings/roofs/highways/roads etc.etc.etc. are next? Where does this nonsense stop. I cannot believe this is true. Check it out on Snopes.com

— bgagliano (View Profile)

Posted on 4/2/2009 8:50:50 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1   

According to Snopes.com, this is not going to happen.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/traffic/darkcars.asp

— bgagliano (View Profile)

Posted on 4/2/2009 9:09:44 PM | reply to this comment | Votes: 1