It gets even more insane! Californiaâs clean air standards for cars and other such things are so much higher than everyone elseâs! So if a car manufacturer in Detroit wants to sell their damn cars in California, they need to build their cars to California clean air standards. But retooling an assembly line and car design to have some cars meet California clean air standards, while building others to other clean air standards is a lot of work, so car manufacturers all over the country have to build all their cars to California clean air standards.
Which is why California went into an uproar earlier this year when the Federal Government tried to argue that states canât set their own environmental guidelines! âFuck you!â says California, âwe remember Los Angeles in the 80s, how bad the smog gets, go pollute your own damn air over in your own damn state where there isnât a thermal inversion layer to trap all the smog down near ground level!â
âBut youâre making it soooo haaaaaard to sell our cars everywhere else!â they whine.
âFuck you!â California shouts. âAnd while weâre at it, we donât give a shit what you say, Mister President, weâre gonna open our damn states when weâre good and ready, and our friends Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, and Washington State agree! Also, weâve decided to legalize weed!â
âBut the Federal Government says itâs illegal!â shouts the other states.
âFuck you, we make the drug laws in our state, and we say toke up!â
âNow, hang on!â shouts the Federal government. âYou can legalize weed in your state, but all banks are federal agencies, so if your weed dispensaries set up bank accounts, those accounts have money from illegal practices in it and are subject to seizure by the federal government!â
âFINE!â shouts California. âHey, weed guys, you can keep selling weed, but you can only deal in cash!â
âHow the fuck is that supposed to work!?â
âI DONâT FUCKING KNOW, TAKE IT UP WITH DC!â
âBy the way, if youâre gay married elsewhere, we wonât recognize it,â mutters Texas.
âOH FUCK YOUUUUUUU!âÂ
And so it goes and so it goesâŚ
