Well, that didn’t take long. After my previous blog about the “progressive” Left Coast state of Washington banning certain environmentally-”unfriendly” brands of dishwashing detergent, now comes word that it’s the color of your car that is environmentally “unfriendly.” From the Left Coast’s “most progressive” state (Do I really need to tell you that I’m referring to the People’s Republic of California?) comes the possibility that black-painted cars will be prohibited:

“If California regulators get their way, auto makers may soon be forced to rewrite a cliché from the Ford Model T era and start telling customers they can have any color they want as long as it isn’t black…The problem stems from a new “cool paints” initiative from the California Air Resources Board. CARB¹ to mandate the phase-in of heat-reflecting paints on vehicle exteriors beginning with the ’12 model year, with all colors meeting a 20% reflectivity requirement by the ’16 model year…The measure is aimed at reducing carbon-dioxide emissions and improving fuel economy by keeping vehicles cooler on sunny days and decreasing the amount of time drivers use their air conditioners.”

Didn’t your Mommy teach you when you were young that black absorbs heat while white reflects heat, therefore, you should wear white if you want to stay cool in the summer?

As Bill Anderson likes to say, “You can’t make this stuff up, folks.”

[Thanks to Brent Peterson for sending me this.]

¹”CARB”–Isn’t that a “darling” acronym? Aren’t they so “clever” in gunvernment? And you thought it couldn’t get any pithier after they came up with The “Patriot” Act.