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The sad thing is the way these bills are targeted... there's only two classes of people that have older cars; collectors and people that cannot afford to get newer cleaner more fuel efficient ones.
So by doing smog checks, what are really accomplishing? Hurting the collector market and punishing the poor(er).
If they gave a tax rebate or other incentive, it wouldn't affect the collector car hobby and it might persuade some people to turn in their older stuff, for a new or newer car; creating sales which creates sales tax, which reduces emissions, which reduces fuel consumption, etc.
Always laugh when these government types start spewing out numbers like this "155 times" thing. In Cleveland, we are allowed so many ppm of certain pollutants - at my last E-Check on my pickup, I was at .5ppm of something (would have to dig up the paperwork to see "what") and was allowed 300ppm. So.... 155*.5=77.5 which is still well within the legal requirements.
I wonder how many pollutants get spewed into the air during one good blow-it-up scene in one of Arnolds movies?
- Dan
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