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Protest Toyota suing California to stop AB1493

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Toyota joined a lawsuit in Fresno District Court that seeks to block implementation of AB1493. AB1493 proposes to reduce GreenHouseGas (&quot;GHG&quot;) emissions from cars 30% by 2016. This is not a lot, not even enough, and certainly less than we could do if we were in emergency mode.<br /><br />AB1493 was passed by we, the people, the California legislature, signed by the Governor, and chaptered into the law of the state of California.<br /><br />The people want to clean the air.<br /><br />What gives Toyota the right to sue us, to stop us from cleaning up our air?

Toyota joined a lawsuit in Fresno District Court that seeks to block implementation of AB1493. AB1493 proposes to reduce GreenHouseGas (&quot;GHG&quot;) emissions from cars 30% by 2016. This is not a lot, not even enough, and certainly less than we could do if we were in emergency mode.<br /><br />AB1493 was passed by we, the people, the California legislature, signed by the Governor, and chaptered into the law of the state of California.<br /><br />The people want to clean the air.<br /><br />What gives Toyota the right to sue us, to stop us from cleaning up our air?
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    Toyota joins lawsuit to keep air dirty -- Tape 1

    by liveoilfree 2,772 views

    AB1493, chaptered as statutes of 2002, calls for a 30% reduction in auto emissions of Green House Gases ("GHG", principally CO2) by 2016.

    The Auto Makers Alliance is suing the state of california in Fresno Federal Court, claiming that regulating CO2 is tantamount to regulating mpg, pre-empted by the federal government's Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency ("CAFE") standards. Of course, the federal standards are very lax, and politically cannot be made stronger (Democrrat Dingell represents the unions, who join with Republicans to defeat any strengthening of that law).

    Previous attempts to regulate emissions runs into the Constitutional restriction of interstate trade regulation to the federal government. This was to prevent a patchwork of regulations that stifled trade.

    There is also AB32, a new California statute that calls for lowering all GHG emissions 25% by 2020. This law is also being challenged by the "dirty duo", auto and oil company industry associations.

    Prime malefactors are the Auto Manufacturers Alliance and Western States Petroleum, which have fought for dirty air for the last 20 years.

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    Protest Santa Monica Toyota Tape 3

    by liveoilfree 706 views

    Toyota is suing the state of California to stop us from cleaning the air. AB1493 was passed by the legislature, signed by the governor. The people want to clean up the air, but Toyota is fighting for dirty air.

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    Protest Toyota Santa Monica Tape 4

    by liveoilfree 1,137 views

    Why is Toyota suing to stop implementation of AB1493? Toyota could easily make plug-iin cars, like the Toyota RAV4-EV. As Bob Lutz points out, GM's proposed VOLT is just an EV, like the Toyota RAV4-EV, with a range-extender.

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    Protest Toyota of Santa Monica Toyota fights for dirty air

    by liveoilfree 1,228 views

    Toyota sues California to stop implementation of AB 1493, which will force auto makers to reduce CO2 emissions 30% by 2016,

    Why is Toyota suing to stop California from cleaning its own air??

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