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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
I think the imports tried to over Americanize their trucks.
The fed should burn the individual state tail pipe emissions requirements. States like California have been trying to regulate exhaust emissions to clean their smoggy air for 50 years and it hasn't worked. Yes there is less smog compared to decades past, but they still come at worst air quality in the nation, so literally everyone has been able to clean their air better than California without their own emissions standards. So the only thing that will work is pollution exportation, generate power and air pollution up north and in other states and send it to the smog capitals.
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Yes pollution is likely worse in California than most other states. But California has a population of over 40,000,000 people. The next closest is Texas at around 30,000,000 and a few states at about half of that. Why do you think they have tougher standards? And yes the standards do make a difference as you noted in your post. I remember how brown the skies were back in the 70's in LA. Not nearly as bad now.
JJ