Small Volume Car Makers Law Change

[RodKnock]

Originally Posted by Bernica

They can come for it along with my gun safe parked next to it and as big as a Sub Zero double-wide refrigerator.

As long as they don't touch your 32 oz. Slurpees.

[Igofastr]

Originally Posted by RodKnock

I'm happy here along with the other roughly 39 Million Californians.

Okay,

Make that 38,999,999 residents....

A couple of weeks ago I went to get my truck smogged. The owner of the shop asked me if I had any power-adders on my truck. I don't, and asked why he asked. His reply, "well, lots of people put parts on their truck to get a little more power, you know, for towing etc." So I said, well as long as they have the CARB exemption, they're OK, right.? He says, "Well, no. Every year, and more frequently lately, they revoke some exemptions. They seem to be getting stricter." So, says I, making sure that I heard right, "You mean that people who bought a part that had a CARB exemption will now fail because the CARB has revoked the exemption." "Yep, that's pretty much it" he replies.

So, pardon me for being a little skeptical.

[Bernica]

I took one of my older vehicles that had headers on it with CARB approval tags welded on both. The guy told me "yeah, that isn't going to cut it anymore...sorry"

[Paul F]

Originally Posted by Paul F

Buzz,

I normally don't jump to the conspiracy side of things, but California is filled to the brim with overzealous environmentalists. There are groups of environmentalists that work full-time to sue city, county, and the state on every possible action. The result is that rather than go to court, the agency submits to a cash settlement. The environmentalists take that cash to continue to fill their coffers and sue again and again and continue to get awarded settlements.

Example - our town approved a shopping center on property that was formerly a high school. Environmentalists sued on some basis (I've forgotten the reason). The town caved and gave them $100,000. It got built, but it was delayed for a long time.

Example - the state highway in town was being widened and additional lanes were added to a bridge. The state put up netting on the underside of the bridge to prevent birds from nesting so they would not get hurt during construction per previous agreements with the environmentalists from previous bridge building. The environmentalists sued them for putting up the netting.

On and on it goes to a level of insanity. Just the fact that the legislation is coming up will get the attention of some environmentalist and who knows what will happen.

While us Californian's wouldn't think of moving because the pluses far out weigh the minuses, here is a follow up to my post. The local paper wrote an article this week that mentioned that the environmentalists were hoping that the birds will return to nesting under the bridge now that it is finished.... and oh by the way, the cost of the netting and re-netting? $5 million. Yep, $5 mill to keep birds temporarily off the underside of a bridge. To top it all off, neither netting worked so the environmentalists insisted that the state have people monitor the underside of the bridge and scrape off any nests that were started by the birds.

There's no doubt it is much cheaper to live elsewhere and the above is a prime example of why.