[jsbisviewtiful]

Sure but do you recall what LA looked like in the 80's? The gas is more expensive but the unseen cost of that level of pollution is very high. The gov can solve all future gas problems with EV subsidies and manufacturers can help solve this problem by making affordable EVs, but getting the current admin or manufacturers to do either seems like a cruel joke at this point. The fed is going as far as to deny Chinese car imports because the EVs are so cheap it would crash the US car industry.

[rickydroll]

Boston had a similar problem. I remember more than once coming over Belmont Hill on Route 2 and seeing this gray-brown cloud sitting over the city with the Prudential Building sticking up out of it.

The problem with Chinese imports and the American auto industry gives me serious flashbacks to the 1970s, when cheap Japanese compacts came in and took business away from American automakers.

Seems to me the American auto industry can't learn to adapt until some foreign competitor comes in and repeatedly kicks them in the nuts.

[gjsman-1000]

Not everyone in California lives in LA or has LA’s problems.

[jjav]

> Not everyone in California lives in LA or has LA’s problems.

That's why smog rules vary per county.

[duck]

True, but the gas blend requirement is state wide which I think was the point being made.

[jsbisviewtiful]

I won't engage any further with a strawman argument made in bad faith.