and Oregon... Portland is destroying the freedoms of the state, they have more people so they have more say, Portland isn't Oregon... of course the same can be said for Washington, Seattle isn't Washington... Idaho is more in the boonies, I think it's safer than Oregon, Washington and Colorado from the California influence...
I've said it before and I'll say it again, California has 50 different air districts, the rest of the country has 1, of the 50 air districts they all ask different stupid questions when trying to permit an engine (like an irrigation engine that is on a trailer and moves around on the same property isn't allowed, but one that stays in the same spot is ok...). California has more environmental concerns than most of the rest of the country mainly because of the giant industrial zone that has zero water and is a desert around LA, the tactics used in that area should not be used in the rest of the country that doesn't have that concentration and if used the people that enforce it need to know what they are talking about not just make things up that sound good... At work our marine engines just this week got accepted for this year in California because we got a new representative that had questions, I had to explain "boosted application" to someone that is enforcing engine regulations...