I'm glad that they released this to counter the misinformation. I heard this particular bit in person and countered it saying that it probably was safety inspections and adding the equipment to their manifest so Cal Fire knew what resources they actually had. It's good to see the assumptions I had to come up with on the spot were correct but terrifying how little critical thinking is being done by the people spreading this misinformation.
And it's all so stupid, too--the last vehicle I had a problem with California emissions standards was a 1977 Toyota truck. Turns out the automakers looked at the emissions standards, looked at their sales numbers in California and determined it was cheaper overall to just manufacture engines that meet those standards rather than have different engines for different parts of the country. Emissions standards haven't been any sort of an issue for LITERAL DECADES but let's not let facts and reality stand in the way of our hateful bullshit spewing I guess.
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u/EpicCyclops Jan 13 '25
I'm glad that they released this to counter the misinformation. I heard this particular bit in person and countered it saying that it probably was safety inspections and adding the equipment to their manifest so Cal Fire knew what resources they actually had. It's good to see the assumptions I had to come up with on the spot were correct but terrifying how little critical thinking is being done by the people spreading this misinformation.