i'm all for the environment but this is silly:

[hatzie]

I would probably qualify as an environmentalist, but this is out of hand. Every year, California comes up with some new regulations for my truck, some new tax that I'm expected to pay, etc. Meanwhile, the frackers can turn everyone's well water flammable, Nestle can pump out our aquifers on a 25 year expired permit, China can sell all its toxic products our stores, Chevron can send clouds of God-knows-what over Richmond every time their refineries hiccup, the farmers can spray the most ungodly poisons all over our food and any kids who might be playing nearby, corporate fishing trawlers can dredge-net the Pacific dry, etc. etc. etc., but I can't find a place to install my new catalytic converter because CARB came up with another regulation for me. This has to stop. They ignore all the real problems while putting the screws to me. I'm done with it.

If you open a factory in CA, the enviro-bureaucrats will haunt your every waking moment. Build the same factory across the southern border and you can pollute all you want and get an army of starving workers thrown in for free. I'm an environmentalist, but as a nation, we need to have a serious re-think. All these bloodsucking bureaucrats can't keep coming around to my place every year with a bunch of new regulations, while ignoring all the real pollution going on. The EPA, CARB, etc. need to have a serious house-cleaning.

Sorry, but this wild inequity really cheeses me off. I can't even have a decent shower because the regulations won't allow me enough water to rinse the soap off. But BofA can steal people's homes with impunity. It's insane. It has to stop.

You sir are a conservationist not an environmentalist.  HUGE difference.