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Five People Just Decided What Tires You Can Buy | Freedom Friday
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California’s tire controversy looks like another weird California story.
Chad argues it’s something much more important.
This episode follows one tire regulation backward through the system that produced it: appointed commissioners, decades-old laws, regulatory modeling, industry stakeholders, appliance standards, rising energy costs, and agencies whose authority can continue long after the political moment that created them disappears.
But this isn’t an anti-regulation rant.
California’s successful fight against smog provides the counterexample: regulation can work spectacularly when the problem is identifiable, the result is measurable, and the public can see what it received in return. The harder question is what happens to the agency after it succeeds.
Chad also examines why industry support doesn’t necessarily prove a regulation benefits consumers, why modeled savings can create misleading regulatory scoreboards, and why California matters even if you live 2,000 miles away.
Because the basic model — lawmakers establish a goal, delegate implementation to appointed regulators, and move on — exists across America.
Chad closes with a simple three-question test you can use the next time a regulation hits your wallet, business, industry, or community:
Who voted for it? When was the underlying law passed? And what did they actually measure?
Plus: your questions and pushback in After Hours.
Understand more. Laugh more. Fear less.
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