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It's called the California Effect.

Higher standards in California mean companies default to that standard nation wide because it's easier to have a single product and avoid supply chain issues.

Same reason most all orange juice is Kosher. A small but large enough hard preference controls the market because the rest dont care enough.

Hopefully red states won't put an mpg cap out of spite



No it's really not. Texas's energy grid is entirely independent and they produce a large percentage of the country's oil and gas.

Also California has it's own specific blend of gasoline and that hasn't been adopted nationwide at all. It's only used in California.

Texas produces around five times as much wind energy as California, and for half the price of California's wind energy.

Unless you can identify a certain thing in California that caused Texas to increase it's wind power I think your argument is pretty vacuous.




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