[rodneym]

Originally Posted by patrickt

RK's right. Cars don't get equal protection rights. The legislature could pass a law that requires stricter emissions for all "blue" cars if they wanted to. All they would have to do is come up with any conceivable set of facts that provides a rational basis for doing it and *poof* it's fine. And in the real world, nothing ever fails that test.

You mean like recently proposed legislation in California where CARB wanted to make black cars illegal? Tinting mandatory? Up to a year in jail for low tire pressure? Look on the CARB website and you'll see a thousand pages on how they want to screw us. Too many lawyers with nothing to do.