More on AB2683, Repeal of the 30 year smog exemption Options

[lapuwali]

Been watching this one.

An analysis done on the 21st stated that an obstacle to the law is the DMV states they need to know if 1976 cars will be exempt or not by July of this year in order to get proper notification out to owners of 1976 cars. However, with the legislative process being what it is, the analyst felt that it couldn't get to Schwarzenegger's desk before September. So, they suggested moving the cutoff to 1977 to solve the timing problem with the DMV.

So far, no word on whether or not this will happen. If so, all 914s would be exempt, and they'd be COMPLETELY exempt, as in they'd be exempt from the regulation, not just the test. If not, there's a chance this may die in the appropriations committee (where it's sitting now) from lack of attention. In any case, there's a decent chance owners of '76s be able to escape this. If it were reintroduced next session, it would have to have a '77 or later cutoff date.

[dmenche914]

Guess we need to find out who made the admendment, to figure the meaning. I read this also, and to me it did not seem to exempt my car from the requirements that i do not modify it, but who knows????

How can one get more info on this stuff????

At anyrate, the wording is unclear, but I suspect we are still forced to not modify our engines (isn't that a federal EPA law anyway?)

I do not trust them creeps in the State House, maybe this wording was placed to confuse, and gain uninformed support of the bill????, yeah thats it, let california say it is ok to mod our engines, so the bill looks good, and gets passed, but opps, federal law says you can't modify ha ha on you stupid citizens?????

Hope this bill dies soon.

At anyrate, the government does go back on its word in laws many times.

remember the assult weapon registration in California many years ago, oh yeah, the state is only registering them, not to worry, we won't take them from you. Then a little latter they sent letters to the registered owners, telling them to turn them in.
Or maybe the temporary income withholding tax, still there last time I checked. Or the goldengate bridge toll will be free once construcion cost are paid off, uhm, let's see It was paid off how many decades ago? oh well.

As far as roadside smog monitoring, the technology is pretty good, and will get better. The sensors can pick up more than black smoking cars, so beware, even a clean burning car could be caught

talk about retroactive, howabout the new (to SF Bay Area) smog tests with the dyno meter (and it eats up most of a $100 bill) There are requirements for NOx that must be met, something that was never required when the car was new. How is that for retroactive?

You can guess i have little trust in government, least still california government. They sank the state into a deep hole, and have done very little to fix it, instead they debate about some ancient oriental method of designing buildings to get the correct "energy flow" or chi, or cha that effects our inner self or some BS like that, and want to take this ancient practice and make it part of the state building code!

bunch of loons they are.

anyway lets keep a eye on this law. remeber this law was sponsered by some wacko that thinks she is a guardian of some special cat (she is one of those that thinks calling herself a pet owner some how violates the rights of her cat) frankly the cat has more brains than her , and most of the other senators, and assembly persons

dave