California Wants To Regulate The Color Of Your Car To Combat Global Warming

• March 26, 2009

I’ve been saying for years now that global warming is less about saving the planet than it is an excuse to regulate every single aspect of your life. Case in point, California considering banning certain types of car colors. Because dark colors trap heat, and that might make you run your air conditioner more. And that, in turn, will cause you to burn more gas and emit more carbon.
I didn’t think anything could be more absurd than Obama regulating our thermostats, but California managed to pull it off.

In a move that will likely get California’s consumers in a huff, impending legislation may soon restrict the paint color options for Golden State residents looking for their next new vehicle. The specific colors that are currently on the chopping block are all dark hues, with the worst offender seemingly the most innocuous color you could think of: Black. What could California possibly have against these colors, you ask? Apparently, the California Air Resources Board figures that the climate control systems of dark colored cars need to work harder than their lighter siblings – especially after sitting in the sun for a few hours.

The question here isn’t whether or not darker color cars get hotter inside (they do), and what impact that has on fuel consumption (probably marginal), but rather how far we’re willing to let government go in regulating every aspect of our lives for our own good?
How can we continue to call ourselves a free country when even the color of our cars is subject to government oversight and approval?
Discussion question: When the Air Force transports the Presidential limo into California (yes, they airlift it to wherever the President is going), will Obama have to pay a fine for having a dark colored vehicle under this regulation? Or will the liberal/political elite be exempted?

Tags: Asshats, Domestic Issues, Politics

http://Array SigFan

Henry Ford in reverse – you can have any color you want, as long as it’s NOT black. Too freakin’ funny! Next they’ll be regulating the color of the roofing on your house, what color clothes you wear and who knows what else they can come up with. All in the name of the environment of course, we must save you from yourself!
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

I agree it does sound like a silly thing to legislate, but next time your at your favorite shithole walmart…

Stuck up.
carrick

Actually if you wanted to reduce the interior temperature consider a fiberglass body, since it’s the metal body that is transmitting the heat to start with.

I suggest something like this to curb global warming:

Of course, one’s wife could get something like this:

Also with fiberglass body.
Mickey

I’d rather have one of these
studakota

Dark colors trapping heat. Hmmm.. Excessive heat contributing to less efficient operation. Unefficient operation leading to lethargy. Might this not, perhaps, explain the appalling lack of progress amongst the African nations? Seems that the only advances ever made in Rhodesia/Zimbabwea were from the likes of the, much villified, Cecil Rhodes hued folks. Not that there’s anything wrong with being unproductive, as long as someone else isn’t paying for your indolence.
docdave

Here in Texas in the summer, any vehicle of any color will be an oven in our heat. I really can’t believe the color makes a significant difference and I doubt that anyone else can prove it either.
Bat One

The specific colors that are currently on the chopping block are all dark hues, with the worst offender seemingly the most innocuous color you could think of: Black.

When the Air Force transports the Presidential limo into California (yes, they airlift it to wherever the President is going), will Obama have to pay a fine for having a dark colored vehicle under this regulation?

The temptation here is all but overwhelming. and if I wasn’t absolutely petrified with fear of being labeled a racist by intellectual and moral heavyweights such as “H”…

//S A R C A S M///
http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

It is my decision about what color I choose. I pay the bills, not liberals. They just try to steal and murder others’ efforts.
jimmypop

we BADDLY needed some of that global warming here in fargo……all we got was record cold and massive spring snows. now, we are flooding.
docdave

Hmmm, motorized. Where is the holster for the rifle?
Bat One

Pink and turquoise might be nice…but they’ve already been taken by the South Beach crowd.
sayanything-5371

Can we just the actual civil war underway already?

We may be closer to this than many realize. Armalite type rifles are selling in record numbers. Who knew that Obama and the libs would stimulate the economy in such a way?
Fatalerror94

When are people going to fight back?

Don’t go quietly into that good night!
Mickey

Because dark colors trap heat

What’s next, taxing skin color? Bigot liberals could ban “dark” people next or possibly charge them a higher carbon tax for heating up the planet.

This will make Buzz happy.
Carter

Well, this law is supposed to lessen the need for air conditioner use, so I don’t know what that has to do with touching a car.

With that said, Mythbusters has already covered this:

“A fan wrote in and asked a follow up question: “Does the color of a car affect the way it heats up?”. The MythBusters used two identical cars, one black the other white and left them both out in the summer heat with thermometers in both. By mid-afternoon the white car had a temperature of 126 Â°F (52.2 Â°C), while the black car had heated up to a temperature of 135 Â°F (57.2 Â°C), about 9 degrees hotter in the Fahrenheit scale. The explanation was that black paint absorbs the heat while white paint deflects it.”

Episode 38.
LoadTheMule

Don’t get it in black.
dfwpike

When the Air Force transports the Presidential limo into California will Obama have to pay a fine for having a dark colored vehicle under this regulation?

Oh please. With the liberal/Marxist elite it’s “Do as I say, not as I do.”
sayanything-5371

I’d rather have one of these

Get you one. You can get a Road King for 12K right now. I’ve had several HD’s. Things ARE more fun on a Harley. Stimulate the economy and have fun doing it.
Buzz

I agree it does sound like a silly thing to legislate, but next time your at your favorite shithole walmart, put your hands on different colored cars, there is a huge difference. We had white trucks and dark green trucks putting up power lines in Texas. And even with the windows down, no AC, you didn’t want to get stuck driving the green trucks. They were way hotter.
robert108

Just more Dem totalitarianism. It’s time for recall elections and impeachment. Fight for freedom!
Buzz

I’ve lived in Texas also. Go out at noon, pull your fat belly up and lay it on a black car, if you can find one. You don’t see 1 in 50 black cars in Texas for a reason, you can’t cool them down. I brought down a dark brown Granada, and couldn’t trade it because the dealers said they couldn’t sell them.
docdave

Right, Anthony, buzz, the car exterior doesn’t appear to make any difference but a dark interior does seem to burn your ass more when the car has sat out in the sun a few hours. But then leather seats also seem hotter than other fabrics.
http://magyartruth.blogspot.com/ Chief RZ

Great. PC colors. Communists all.
Anthony

Arizona is much the same way. The car becomes an oven regardless of color. Apperently the dark colors heat up faster, but the temperature evens out at its highest.
http://massbackwards.blogspot.com/ Bruce

This is right out of Mao’s Cultural Revolution playbook.

Government-mandated pant widths, hair lengths, store signs.

Government-mandated car colors.

Can we just the actual civil war underway already?
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

Not a snowball’s chance in an Escalade of passing given Hollywood’s love of ever-fashionable black. All it shows is the idiocy of liberals. They think they have a free hand to do whatever and show their true colors. No restraint, no conscience, just greedy, controlling, vindictive, childishness.
http://suitepotato.blogspot.com/ sayanything-4808

Fine. With the money in the rappers’ hands in SoCal, they can afford to get ion sputtered silver mirror finishes and everyone can be blinded. Of course they’ll either ban those or allow them with extra taxes and fees, and require warning messages like “DO NOT STARE DIRECTLY INTO THE VEHICLE”.

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