Sixteen States Sue The EPA For The Right to Be More Strict

There should only be national safety and emissions standards. Can you imagine the administrative duplication and waste if every state had its own standards. That is the problem in countries that are basically a federation of smaller jurisdictions. State rights interfere with strong nationhood at the federal level.

Everyone should be able to buy a vehicle at an affordable price. If every state forces its own standards on the auto industry, the industry will have no choice but to pass the related higher incremental costs on to the consumer -- this in turn will reduce auto sales and threaten jobs in the domestic auto industry which is already struggling financially.

By the way, my comments apply equally to Canada where we have provinces instead of states. Emissions and safety inspection rules vary and provincial labor laws have prevented skilled workers from one province from temporarily working in another province. State and provincial rights do nothing but balkanize a country and encourage local politicians to be seen to be doing something better than their federal counterparts.

I would go so far as to encourage the adoption of federal license plates and drivers licenses. Perhaps this is an idea that Homeland Security could pursue.

I agree, however on the other hand the EPA is cracking down on states with excessive automotive pollution and their first reaction is to tighten controls on cars sold there. so the state is caught in the middle. Sell cars that meet EPA standards and then get fined for having too many cars on the road. A no win solution.

This is liberal/communists extremists pushing there agendas on the American people and business. Several studies have shown that the Federal Regs are doing there job and Bush just signed in even tougher standards. These people don’t care about the people or business it’s just another way for them to try to control business and create more Government programs with our tax dollars. Basically the average person will end paying more for gas, autos and more in taxes. This is the work of people who have a communist’s agenda and no I am not full of it.

The more power the CENTRAL government has the more COMMUNIST the country is, lets just get that straight... ok?

Now the problem of paying taxes in too many directions is a concern, any free minded person will want as little government as possible, but what is good for you and your community is sometimes not what is good for another community. So California NEEDS less pollution than Montana and there is just no getting round that.

But in our oil and environmental crisis it would make the most sense to enforce the strictest laws asked for by any state on everyone.

The oil is going to be in less and less supply and gas is never going to be as cheap again as it is now, so we may as well get used to it. If we were to take the situation as seriously as it actually is there should be international laws restricting maximum fuel consumption to 45 miles to the gallon, not matter what class of vehicle!