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I don’t think all manufacturers follow CARB for all the cars they build. When I lived in California I knew several people who bought their cars in Arizona because it meant they’d have more horsepower and fewer parts that could break. Also I removed the extra California emissions junk on my motorcycle because it caused the bike to leak fuel if it fell over.

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I had some hope we'd survive the climate crisis. We're dead lmao.

The device didn’t improve emissions. It was designed to try and prevent gas fumes from coming out of the tank. It technically did do that… but only if the bike was upright.

>It technically did do that… but only if the bike was upright.

Which is the expected and normal state of a motorcycle.

Yeah and they also fall over all the time. And when that happened, it leaked gallons of gas. It increased the amount of pollution and created a fire hazard.

there are a billion people in China, and another billion in India.

only 40 mil in California, and most consumer use bikes / cars / whatever are a drop in the carbon bucket.

we could, and should do better, but unless the rest of the world is onboard it's moot.

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