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I'm really hoping that the suit against Hawaii over the effects of climate change is a landmark case that drags state power back inside state borders.
I remember a dragging case here in Florida where New York was attempting to apply their laws to things that happened here.
Eventually they got told to stop and that a legal sale in Florida is still a legal sale even if the gun ended up at a New York Fucking City crime scene.
No laws were broken until the legal purchaser took said gun into the state of New York.
It took forever for that to run its course.
Then there's California and all of their bullshit crap. Too damn long to list even a summary, but you've all seen their Prop 65 cancer warning.
They're trying to dictate how our food is grown and how our electricity is produced because said food or energy might someday be brought into their state.
The sensible response from producers should be, "this is the product for sale, if it doesn't meet your standards, don't buy it." The courts should take a position that California has no standing to force an out of state entity to change anything about how they do business.
They're rapidly chasing everyone who can make anything out of their state, for putting these dumb restrictions on everything.
California and New York have gone full out crazy in a lot of areas. As you say, too many to even get started on. It isn't just manufacturers that are fleeing California and New York, it is so many of the critical skilled people. Their business unfriendly environment and oppressive taxation and stupidly high cost of living has caused an exodus of their best and brightest. To the point where the Austin area adds 150+ residents every day. And most of the are coming from California or New York.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, as to Hawaii, I hope that the oil companies just decide not to do business in Hawaii anymore. If Chevron and Exxon and a few others all decide to shut down all their operations there, it would cause a huge problem and a huge public outcry when fuel prices would likely skyrocket. And Hawaiians already pay very high prices at the pump due to the costs of importing oil there. It is after all quite a distance from anywhere. They also have other regulations which further exascerbate the problem. But it could be much worse for them if the supply there was suddenly cut short and competition was severely curtailed leaving anyone still in the market to be able to hike prices.
Damn... think I forgot to sign that one... -swj
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