The California market is too large to ignore so I am sure this will effect the rest of the country.

I read [somewhere] years ago that California’s pollution laws made it more difficult for the US to meet the standards of Kyoto and lower greenhouse gasses because they made it difficult for certain kind of diesel engines common in Europe to be driven here. In other words the Euros had traded one kind of pollution for another.

This will change that. But I do think it will be hard on people that can least afford it. I also heard $3,000-$4,000 more per car. That seems excessive to me. What about old cars? How long can people drive them?

I also think the federal government may fight this becasue they have long held that certain rules are to be in the hands of the federal and not the state governments.