It's actually quite awesome to be in a city and not smell benzene in the air. What is normal nowadays will seem ridiculous in 3-4 decades - "so you knew what comes out of the exhaust causes cancer but you still allowed vehicles everywhere, how illogical".
Yet the state produces nearly twice the GDP per capita of a right wing mecca like Mississippi that presumably doesn't do all those things you allege and thus in your opinion must be run by a bunch of geniuses? Seriously, at what point do results and the will of the people in a state to pass their own laws start to matter to you so called "conservatives"? BTW, the whole pasting the first three letters of a word to another word in an attempt to be clever is useful....at allowing those with middle school mentalities to self identify as such early in a conversation so the rest of us understand what level of person we're working with. Somehow I'm thinking that's not what you were trying to accomplish with that, but I'll be damned if I can figure out what exactly you were hoping to accomplish?
Well they were pretty successful in 1980 at eventually getting rid of much of the toxic smog in LA, and the right wing haters were saying exactly the same thing then. Ironic given Beijing's current situation with almost unbreathable air that "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step" is a Chinese proverb. You gotta start somewhere, and pretty much everything big humanity has accomplished seemed difficult to impossible when started.
As much as I like driving my v8's, I work in the industry and Cali swinging it's massive dick will move the way manufacturers develop automobiles. This isn't puny Norway w/no market cap in the auto industry. Like red states will have any sway on Detroit....lul
Just like we know that giving weapons to mentally weak individuals is extremely dangerous, yet we do it. If only they'd kill each other off...