California, the Nanny State...

Looks like California is about to mandate low-transmissivity glass in cars.  This glass lets much less of the sun's energy through the windows, resulting in less heating of the car, thus resulting in less need for the fuel-hungry air conditioner.

Sounds good, right?

Well, this is the government at work – you should know better!  There are two major problems with the bill (which Schwarzenegger has already said he'd sign):

1. The glass is mandated for all automobiles under 10,000 pounds.  Not just cars with air conditioning.  It even applies to vehicles like jeeps with roll-up windows.
2. The low-transmissivity glass also impedes high-frequency radio waves, such as those used by cell phones, satellite radios, garage door openers, and electronic toll tokens.

Top-down central planning is fraught with such problems; this is just one more example of how such planning works very poorly.  But here we are, doing it again.

In 2010, these neo-socialists must go...