One does not need to have a clue about the area, when referencing the inventory of tires at Sacramento. I showed that the nation's largest retailer of tires, mostly stocks the lower quality tires. I am not arguing for the sake of arguing. You have not provided one rational reason to support your claim that the requirement of a better quality vehicle tire is a "bad thing", other than you have imagined it to be "bad". You raised the issue of "Red Tape" and it has absolutely nothing to do with this issue. It is irrelevant. There is no red tape associated with this change in quality standards. You are carrying on as if it is a draconian law when it is the contrary. There are multiple common sense exceptions. For example, winter tires, ATVs, Motorcycles, Racing and competion tires, Emergency vehicles, Retreads, vehicle tires for speeds of less than 50 mph, specialty tires etc. They can continue as is. Fine, go purchase your low quality tires in Nevada. You go show them. Forgive us if we have a good chuckle though. The amount of money you will spend on getting to a retailer will probably cost you a lot more than what you think you will be saving. Thank you for demonstrating the short term thinking I previously mentioned.