Kommiefornia did it again…
California regulators on Monday approved new rules that will restrict what tires you can buy when it’s time to replace them on your car.
In a unanimous vote, the California Energy Commission voted to adopt new rules that will phase out the sale of replacement tires that don’t meet certain energy efficiency standards.
Tire manufacturers and the commission’s staff are at odds over whether this will add to the cost of living in the state. Both sides acknowledged this will no longer allow the sale of a significant portion of the tires currently sold in California.
Full article, HERE from KCRA Sacramento.
BLUF- The California Energy Commission has acknowledged that the state will no longer allow the sale of 70% of tires currently sold in California by 2033, a statement Goodyear made in the original version of this story.
This is yet again a ‘good idea’ that is going to cost folks LOTS of money, and limit choices even more than they are now…
It’s all about ‘rolling resistance’ on the road, e.g. a harder tire compound that lowers the rolling resistance as the car goes down the road.
But…
They do more damage to the roadway (see HOV lanes on 395 into DC), and do not handle wet roads well (can you say spin outs, sliding rather than braking, etc.).
I can’t find the article now, but in the mid 2005ish time frame they did a test on which vehicle did more damage to the roadway, a Prius or a full sized SUV. The Prius did due to the hard tires (low rolling resistance for high mileage)…
And now they are going to do the same thing in Kommiefornia, where the roads already suck, and are only going to get worse!
And I’m betting they ‘hope’ to get this pushed nationwide, so they can force the tire manufacturers to bow to their will.
I’m sorry, but if I ran a major tire manufacturer, I’d say you can buy what we make, or we will go elsewhere. We are not going to bend a knee to you.
Ronnie Barrett did it with the MK-82 after they outlawed .50 cal rifles out there, and he pulled all his business and maintenance from all of California, including the departments that had bought MK-82s! And strangely enough, his sales went up!
Whodathunkit???
“We are not going to bend a knee to you.”
If more companies would do this with regards to California, it’d help stop their nonsense. Unfortunately, profit is king, and California is a huge market that companies aren’t willing to let go of.
Classic monkey trap, but we’re the ones that feel the painful outcome of the monkey getting netted.
I bet 99% of the tires typically used for off-pavement will be axed.
Rural people screwed again
So there will end up being a black market in tires, or the tire dealers in NV, AZ and OR close to the CA border will have a sizable increase in business. But CA will then start trying to regulate the tires non residents have on their cars when they visit CA.