California files lawsuit against GM, FORD, TOYOTA for smog???

[Focus]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - California filed a global warming lawsuit on Wednesday against Ford Motor Co., General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and three other automakers, charging that greenhouse gases from their vehicles have cost the state millions of dollars.

State Attorney General Bill Lockyer said the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Northern California was the first of its kind to seek to hold manufacturers liable for the damages caused by their vehicles' emissions.

The lawsuit also names Chrysler Motors Corp., the U.S. arm of Germany's DaimlerChrysler, and the North American units of Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. Ltd..

reuters (http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-09-20T193545Z_01_N20199499_RTRUKOC_0_US-ENVIRONMENT-AUTOS.xml&src=092006_1550_TOPSTORY_calif._sues_carmakers)

once again, in US you can sue everyone because of anything...

[seftonm]

So the automakers follow California's emissions regulations and one day California decides it wasn't enough so they sue the automakers for not reducing emissions even further. Perhaps California should sue themselves for not making emissions regulations or incentives that would have prevented this.

[masterballer]

What a stupied lawsuit this is, its just mind baffling really.

[Sonbuster]

i really don't know who to side with?