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A neighbor of our explained to me the government is essentially shutting down the USA manufacturing company he has worked at for over 30 years, with him short of making retirement. Being a smaller community there is no replacement job here (or likely anywhere) meaning among other things losing the house he has been paying for to be paid off by retirement. Everyone with the company is losing their jobs.
For half a century it has technically been illegal to modify cars and trucks driven on the road due to EPA and DOT regulations. However, none of this applied too off-road vehicles, racing vehicles, boats and non-vehicle motors. Thus, parts for such modifications were legal to make and sell - the only illegality is using them on street vehicles.
California outlawed making and selling parts that MIGHT be illegally used, even if the also could be legally used. The California market was huge for the company, financially breaking the company. In addition, California is using the Federal EPA to impose California law nationwide. The owner (we also know) said when coming to his company the federal inspector - a climate change fanatic - told him that he is "murdering the planet."
What it means is to buy such parts people will have to order them online from China since the EPA can not control Chinese manufacturing. The only effect of the regulations is to 100% eliminate USA manufacturing and selling of the products to 100% shift production and sales to China. It's ok to "murder the planet" - as long as this makes jobs and money for other countries, not Americans and the USA.
Thus the real effect is NOT to do anything to affect climate change whatsoever. All it does is shift 100% of relevant jobs and income from the USA to China - just like essentially every climate change policy goal does.
Climate-change radicals essentially are foreign agents and lobbyists of China's and other foreign child labor sweatshop factories.
The counties that voted for Hillary Clinton accounted for 64% of the nation's GDP. The counties that vote for Trump, just 36%.
Another Clinton-Trump divide: High-output America vs low-output America
Yeah, yeah, yeah, "but Detroit", sure, Democrats run Detroit. They also run almost every other major city in the country and have for decades. Minneapolis, Seattle, Houston, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Boston and so on. Meanwhile, look at the areas ran by Republicans, places like Mississippi, rural Alabama, rural small towns across the rust belt, basically, what amount to third world level ****holes. The places ran like you want things ran are utter ****holes. So now, in typical chasing pennies, tripping over dollars fashion so common on the Trump supporting far right these days, you are bitching about regulations that impact about 0.000000001% of the economy.