Today we learn that the EPA is threatening California with the loss of federal highway funds because of its allegedly inadequate efforts to meet Clean Air Act standards, while, at the same time, the Administration is moving to block California's auto emissions standards because they are too strict! As the guys on the Monday Night Football pre-game show would say: "C'mon, man!"
It's a FU to those "libruls" on the coast. It's a red meat strategy for the base. Eff those guys that drive the GDP paying my social security check!
This is what happens when brain dead liberals confound auto pollution with life-giving CO2. California also banned MTBE fuel component in favor of ethanol which is worse for air pollution. This is what happens when policy decisions are made by virtue signaling.