"George" wrote in message
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Give me one valid reason why that shouldn't be the sole discretion of
the public and not the state.

I thought the point was that California was only trying to change the
thinking about frequent oil changes?

I guess even that counts as Big Government tyranny to some these days. )-:
If California made it a law, then the courts would be flooded with people
trying to sue them for every blown engine in the state, no matter what the
actual cause of "engine death" turned out to be. Motorcide?
Engineslaughter?

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Bobby G.