Our question is, and this should be an easy one to answer, does California require helmets and safety training for riders of 3 and 4 wheelers, motor bikes, and snow mobiles? What about life jackets, pfds for the folks in the mid-west, and safety training for personal watercraft operators? If the answer to any of those questions is no – then why not make rider and passenger safety a priority before mandating reduced carbon footprints? Or is that how environmentalists roll – birds first, people second?

SACRAMENTO — Attorney General Jerry Brown will petition federal regulators today to set stricter emission standards on off-road toys such as snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles and personal watercraft — an idea that manufacturers insist would trigger higher prices, lower performance and possibly even be the demise of some off-road vehicles. Brown said he wants the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to exercise its authority under the Clean Air Act and court decisions to set greenhouse-gas emission standards for new off-road equipment, which also includes tractors, forklifts and some lawnmowers.

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