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Speaking of Press
On 19 Nov 2019, Tom Enright > posted some
: > On Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 6:45:19 PM UTC-5, Tim VanWagoner wrote: >> Not electric cars Tom, just higher fuel economy standards. >> >> I agree that it is stupid, but disagree that it’s “whiny > ”. I just >> question what the endpoint will be? If they want to punish one or >> two automakers, they can. But without the ability to set all fuel >> standards in the state, that punishment would be limited to trying >> setting a standard that all government fleet purchases can only come >> from companies that meet a standard. They can’t do that alone. A > few other >> big states jump in and they could certainly do it. >> >> Just don’t think they should try it. > > If California stopped buying cars from companies because those companies > could not meet the state's requirements, that's cool. > > If California stopped buying cars from companies because those companies > agree with Trump on some issue, that's being a whiny bitch. > > IF former is true, CNN sucks for going out of the way to slap Trump. The originator of this thread and CNN both lack overall historical knowledge of the facts. It's an intentionally toothless threat. "Chrysler" and Toyota are both laughing, "Big whoop....so what". Go for it. Give it all you got. All the information below is publicly available for download and the vehicles listed have already survived multiple purchase boycott attempts by the shrieking nuts who fall from trees daily in this state. https://data.ca.gov/dataset/california-state-fleet California has traditionally been a Ford customer first, MOPAR 2nd, Chevy, Nissan and others when the fancy strikes them. The CHP and most law enforcement departments drive Ford and Dodge vehicles. Ford has the larger share. Ford 57,946 Chevy 36,112 Dodge 19,566 Dodge RAM 15,680 BMW 500 Chrysler 94 Jeep 1,532 Nissan 1,011 GMC 6,927 John Deere 5,418 Sea Ray 20 Buick Century 18 Toyota 4,796 Kia 62 Hyundai 84 Honda 3023 Pontiac 589 Caterpillar 1,255 Kawasaki 715 There are 210,772 line items in this spreadsheet. The way this boycott thing works is it goes in the crapper as soon as law enforcement or the politically connected, i.e. DWP place a requisition. |
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