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You mean like the scientist with the fake degree that made up the research for the California Air Resources Board’s diesel rules?[/quote]
This is a perfect example of how rules and regulations, taken to an extreme, can do far more harm than good. CARB’s actions probably do help the environment on an almost infinitesimal level (even that is debatable), but what about the hundreds of thousands of jobs lost? These rules aren’t hurting big corporations, they’re hurting thousands of small California businesses like short haul trucking companies and farmers. They’re being forced to either shut down or take their business out of state, while their former employees are left wondering how a couple fewer parts per trillion of particulates in the air helped them or their families.
At some point, rules simply become a control issue on the part of career politicians. On both sides.
