Did California Just Top TRUMP? Strikes Deal With BMW, Ford, Honda And VW For An Alternate Path To REDUCE Emissions

No. They coerced manufacturers by implying that they would do a smear campaign against them.

@MD - Can you elaborate? Apparently 12 other US states also support and abide by the California emissions standard. So these mfg's are not just covering 1 state, but 13 or pretty much 1/4 of all US states. Sounds like a no brainer of a deal from mfg side of the desk. And it is a weaker deal than the original Obama era targets. Everyone goes home happy.

The California official who announced the kowtowing of the 4 manufacturers implied that California will do a smear campaign of any company who does not agree to the Gestapo.

Certainly helps around LA metropolis

All the automakers wanted was one standard to meet for the whole country. Not a big ask. But they know where the business is going (ever lower emissions), even if the WH does not. Easier to agreed to the higher California standard and get on with business. I fully expect other automakers will jump on board now that this group has stepped forward.

They are just being smart. You either lead or fall behind.

More like cave in and avoid extortion.

The man is a great counter puncher. The wrath of Trump will prevail.

The day after his landslide victory in 2020, he will go after California and bitch slap them into a bloody pulp.

Atleast he won’t have much to pack the day after he loses considering Melania refuses to live with the Orange Baboon and his kids want nothing to do with him but a check...makes the moving staff’s job a lot easier

C4L - you're such a pathetic coward and a joke... get over your stupid self.

C4L Do you just make up lies? Oh wait. Yes, you do. You're a Democrat.

Lol I love hitting these Republitard’s nerves, they are so easily triggered and immediately forced to name call because they do not have the intelligence to form an argument...

Notice how they couldn’t even refute the fact that Melania won’t go near the Orange Baboon, much less live with him HAHAHA

Poor Tiny

C4L all you are is CTRL + V with cliched boilerplate. #ZeroThought

Tell me, would you be OK with people bashing Obama and Michelle as you do Trump and Melania? Lemme guess. No. They are not to be touched because they are black and Democrats, but it's OK with white Republicans. #hypocriteUare

LMAO THE OBAMAS DIDNT EMBARRASS THEMSELVES WITH PORN STARS LIKE STORMY DANIELS

MICHELLE WENT TO PRINCETON AND GOT A LAW DEGREE, MELANIA TOOK NUDE PICTURES AND STOLE HER SPEECH

POLITICS ASIDE THERE IS ZERO COMPARISON OF THE TRUMPS ABD OBAMAS FROM A CLASS AND MORAL STANDPOINT

NEVER DISRESPECT THE OBAMAS BY PUTTING THEM IN THE SAME SENTENCE AS THOSE REALITY STARS

Yes. The Obama’s were a class act.

Providing guns to Mexican smugglers

Having the IRS target political opponents

Claiming Benghazi was a reaction to anti-Muslim tapes with less than two months to go before the 2012 election

Wiretapping journalists

Sending a plane of money to Iran in the middle of the night

Lol very classy considering everything you mentioned, now let’s go through trumps list of failures that affected the average American

Failure to come up with an actual alternative to Obamacare
Failure to fund and bill a wall he can’t even break ground on
Failure to release tax returns
Failure to impose actual sanction Kim Jong Un gives a shit about
Failure to draw a line in a sand with Russia because he’s too busy bending over in the sand for Putin

Business Failures....despite millions of dollars in funding from his daddy
Trump Airlines
Trump Vodka
Trump Mortgage
Trump the game
Trump Casinos
Trump Steak
Trump Magazine
Trump University

C4L is triggered.

He's CTRL + Ving in caps. Spewing like a psychopath.

Sane people see frothing imbeciles like this and wonder if it's psychosis or meth addiction or both.

But as I thought, he's into double standards. C4L can bash the President because Trump is white and Republican, but racial token non-citizen cannot be touched.

Hey, C4L. Wanna park your Tesla on my lawn and take your chances?

Hey guys let’s drink everytimr this idiot says C4L or uses his lame “CTRL” sayings lol ??

And here we go, why do retardicans always pull the race card? Try again Mattie boy, Michelle going to Harvard and Princeton, and Melania taking nudes and stealing speeches are about principal not race. Obama staying committed to his wife and being an example to his daughters and young men everywhere while Trump has fun with Stormy and tell young men to grab em by the p**** has nothing to do with race, just class, stop race baiting and stand on principal

Oh and I’m happy to hear the used Hyundai dealership has allowed u to afford a lawn, good for u, keep it maintained plz, I hate when ppl get something they can’t take care of

Failure to come up with an actual alternative to Obamacare??? He does not want an alternative. It is a failing mess. It is driving health care costs up instead of the promised reduction. People on it hate it and want their own choice back.

Failure to fund and bill a wall he can’t even break ground on??? Check the news. The Supreme Court confirmed he can shift budge to fund.

Failure to release tax returns??? There is no law that states he has to publicly provide his returns. If there are illegal filings, it is up to the IRS to investigate. They audit his returns every year.

Failure to impose actual sanction Kim Jong Un gives a shit about??? He has done more solve the issue then all presidents before him. The great Obama did nothing resulting in misses getting fired over Japan.

Failure to draw a line in a sand with Russia because he’s too busy bending over in the sand for Putin??? Russia hates him because he is so hard on them. Last time I checked, Obama was in office when the so called interruption in the election occurred and he did nothing.

Yup you failed miserably at defending you trash President, all you did was come up with excuses no solutions kind of like your president.

he can’t find an altrernative to Obamacare because need flash THEY HAVE NONE, spent loved a decadetrash talking it but couldn’t come up with a solution!

LMAO AT THE END OF HIS FIRST AND ONLY TERM he gets to try to place a budget for the wall, newsflash TIME’S UP

IT SHOULDNT TAKE A LAW TO REQUIRE HIM TO RELEASE HIS TAX RETURNS, ITS CALLED PRINCIPAL AND MERIT AND RESPECT FOR THE AMERICANS AND COUNTRY U SERVE, but u republitards NEEVER hold him accountable u just look the other way, his predecessors on the right and left did it, this Orange Baboon should not get special treatment as he’s been given his whole privileged life

Last I checked Kim Jong Un wasn’t launching Missiles ever Friday night when Obama was in office. Kim Jong Un watched how Trump got Bitch slapped by Putin and figures he can do it too

LMAO Russia could care less about America because they know Putin is grabbing trump by the P**** which is why trump won’t snitch on Russian spies/politicians colluding and interfering with our gov.

#OrangeBaboonIsDone

Lots of Fox viewers here, so sad...

Oh come on now.

If you look at the sheer volume of spew of the Left VS Right in this site, the volume is easily 75% Leftist CTRL + V boilerplate spew from CNN.

Lol it’s not sad at all I look at is an opportunity to educate the Fox viewers and put them in their place no matter how upset and angry they get.

They need to no their trash President and porn Star First Lady will NEVER compare to the GOAT Obama and Harvard Law degree Michelle

Get outta here with that buls***

So to recap @C4L1 you have the balls to be an arrogant son of a bitch but apparently it come with a vestigial manthing because you can't say "bullshit".

TheSteveV2.0

That’s right I’m no more arrogant than your trash President who is so arrogant he feels he doesn’t have to release his tax returns co kiss both our arrogant asses! LMAO

Hey dumbass, guess what? He's YOUR President too. #game #set #match

Not for long LMAO, u stupid ass moron...GAME OVER

It actually makes sense, most of the world that is still in the Paris climate accord ... well all of the world now except us and I think Iran... anyways they want lower emissions so it makes sense they would align with California and make engines that work world wide instead of one dirty engine for part of the the US that does not understand nor believe in science and clean engines for the rest of the US and world.

You need to stop getting your new from The View.

Australia just held an Election where The issue was Climate Change and the Paris Accord. It was rejected overwhelmingly.

What do you think the weekly protests “yellow vests” in Paris are all about........Raising of taxes on Fossil Fuels as part of the Paris Climate Accord.

Brexit at its core was a rejection mandates from Brussels on immigration and Climate Change.

Those that still believe in man caused Climate Change instead of the natural cyclical Climate variations that it is the actual cause are pretty much the same as the people that still believe OJ didn’t do it. It’s all about the money and Taxing Air.

You mean the post menopausal lesbian finger buddies on PMS can't be trusted?

OK so Putin has successful elsewhere other than just US and Europe/UK in particular. Weak minded people susceptible to this kind of interference and long term psyops are everywhere. Hopefully things like reality and actual science will win out in the end.

Ummm...

This site is supposed to be about cars. Can we please stick to automotive issues?

Yes, the article touches on politics. But only as a backdrop to a discussion about new regulations on vehicle emissions.

Matt does not believe Emissions should be regulated - he feels that should be set by the market - which I consider misplaced.

Like Trump - Matt questions Global warming - I guess he does not own a house on a Ocean Coast where the Regular Ocean level has risen over the Dock that was once well above the water level. It is happening - average temps have risen worldwide.

And once again TomM is attributing to me things I have not said in an effort to demonize and bully.

I've literally never said the market should set emissions regulations.

Emissions are what's coming out of the tail pipe.

I have said that the market should set the MPG. I simply don't care if a vehicle gets 10mpg for 40mpg, as long as what comes out of the tail pipe meets emissions, then it's legal.

TomM wants to conflate MPG with emissions and that is just the socialist misdirection that his merry band of fascists loves to do.

@fancool, funny stuff "those that still believe in Man caused climate change" like 97% of the climate scientists, scientists from the major oil companies, military scientists etc... Of course politicos, talking heads and know nothings are smarter with regards to the science. Who would you get input from when making political decisions that require an understanding of the science?

CTRL + V

Of coarse ignore, the fact that NASA, NOAA, UN-IPCC have been caught manipulating their data multiple times. Ignore the hacked emails from East Anglia discussing manipulating data, all to keep the Grant money flowing. Taxing Air guarantees a steady flow of revenue.

Then look up what the U.N.’s real end game is, which is control of the largest producer of Carbon Dioxide that runs 24 hours a day 7 days a week. It’s called Humans and Population Control. Look it up it’s in the U.N. Reports.

CTRL + V

Of course, it is all a big conspiracy... Amazing how they have pulled this off, all kept it under cover, 1000s of super rich researchers taking in millions of research grants to jet around to the Bahamas while writing their bogus reports, modifying satellite data etc... One side in this propaganda war has a lot of $s interest and is spending it to manipulate the opinions of people who apparently never learned the basics of critical thinking. The other side in this propaganda war is apparently a massive group of corrupt scientists... yea right.