{OT} California proposing to ban black cars

If this doesn't explain part of my logic in escaping the idiot farm in California nothing will.

Was on the local Spokane news that California is proposing to ban black cars! Reason is that they absorb solar heat thereby taking more fuel to cool them. Yes, dark cars get hotter. But are they going to ban dark clothes, or dark roofs, or maybe dark suntans? If I wear a dark shirt I get hot, I look for cooling.

Somewhere sometime this lunacy should end.

Does government really need to be involved with the persons choice in colors of a car?

I'd not have a black car, never have, never will. They're hot and to hard to keep clean but its my choice.

Okay, I'm done

Ron in Idaho

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ron
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They do not call California the land of fruits and nuts for nothing. If we allow BO to get away with all the socialist crap he is trying to foist upon the country we can look for the rest of the US to be bankrupt like California and the EU.

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Mike Hunter

Autolinedetroit.com had the following comment:

Yesterday we ran a story saying, =93You=92re not going to believe this story,=94 about how the California Air Resources Board is talking about banning dark colored cars. Well the CARB contacted Autoline Daily yesterday to say, =93You=92re right, you shouldn=92t believe that story.=94 The truth is that the CARB is exploring paint pigments that reflect more of the sun=92s rays, which keeps cars cooler so the A/C doesn=92t work as hard, which saves gas, which reduces C02. The pigments work with any paint color, so the Air Resources Board is not looking at banning dark colored cars.

-- Ron

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Ron Peterson

Every time the industry fiddles with paint formulas, they flake off faster and don't last as long. Like what happened when lead was taken out of the formula.

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Sharx35

I don't think that lead pigments would give superior wear characteristics.

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discusses paintpigments that reflect IR better than conventional pigments.

-- Ron

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Ron Peterson

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