Allen,
The Calif. DMV and Air rersources Board have people that watch all the car sites and they are well aware of what is going on. It is mostly the typical political crap. We made a mistake but will lose millions before we will admit it. As for getting an answer via e-mail or a returned phone call from any of the gang in Sacramento that is almost impossible. When you have your ABC interview, try to point out the lost revenue the state is throwing away because of their refusal to admit these cars don't contribute a major amout of the pollution. Logically the only real way to do this is to give blanket immunity to any cars registered under the old ways and collect any taxes and dues that the state has coming and then register them with no limits. With the cars registered correctly, they would take in thousands every year for cars that are hardly driven. But here we have a Paradox. Dealing with politicians and logic. Maybe a mass e-mail campaign from other states to Sacramento pointing out that they have no problems would at least get the attention of some of the news networks and believe me, if there is a TV camera pointed somewhere, these politicians will be in front of it in seconds. I have been dealing with this issue off and on for the past 9 years and talking to people in Sac. that I played racquet ball with. As long as it stays low key with no attention I think we are going to have a long and hard fight. The state will spend a million dollars to take some poor guy's car instead of making it legal for him to register it and collecting many millions. I wish I could offer a good solution to this, but I think we really need a face to face meeting with a bunch of these people all at once to stop the saying one thing and then doing another stuff. If there is any way that I can be of help, let me know.
Ron
