We are screwed smog law passed Options

[dmenche914]

AB 2683 passed the Senate transport committee, which means it will continue on for more votes. This will require smog tests for 1976 cars and newer forever, even when they are forty, fifty years old!

Here is the breakdown of votes:

Murray, Figueroa, Florez, Perata, Scott, Speier, and Torlakson all voted Yes, BASTARDS!!!

Ashborn, Karnette, Morrow, all did not vote, CHICKEN SHITS!!!

Mc Clintock, and Brulte voted No, HEROS!!!

It appears it now goes to another Senate Committee, I will try to keep you all updated on this crummy law.

Please call the Bastards, and Chicken Shits, and let them know how disapointed you are in them, and please call the Heros thank them, and ask them what you can do to help get this law struck down as it procededs thru the senate.


Dave Menche

[fiid]

If I seem a bit agitated, it's only because I used to be a head mechanic at a VW shop and I changed my profession just because I realized I was helping unknowing people muck up  the air by keeping old cars running.

... To me that says you would just as well breath the soup they call "air" in the big cities in China.

Your comment about China makes my point! The real aim of the liberal political philisopy is control, not clean air. In China, the governement controls everything, and their air is horrible.

And that whole deal about how you used to be a VW head mechanic, but then quit because you didn't want to help us poor saps like us unknowingly destroy the environment is a little arragant. My 914 used to get 32+ mpg. My New Beetle gets 24 on the highway!

The goverment going after hot-rodders and classic car owners is just a way for them to look like they are doing something so those environmental extreemists will vote for them. Making it harder on a few car owners won't have any real effect on air quality.

Liberal does not equal communist.

That kind of extemism is what I expect of Osama Bin Laden + friends, not of an intelligent westerner.

The aim is not control; it is to target the worst polluting vehicles and try to control their output. It's like anything - if your teener runs mostly fine, but the brakes suck, what do you fix first?

Spend some time in LA. LA is in a basin which basically gets sealed off at the top by a layer of smog. I'm no expert, but I believe that it is getting better down there because of emissions control. You can SEE the smog - it taint's the color of the sky. It is not a good thing.

None of us like change, especially when it's decreed from some government beurocrat, but sometimes we have to evolve.

The china situation is waiting to happen. I like this country - I think it's sort of a victim of it's own success, but it's treated me very well and I am grateful. That does not stop us looking like an ASS to the rest of the world. If we do not try to clean up our act, we will look stupid when we ask China to clean up there act. They don't have a problem now. They have a growing economy with 25% of the worlds population that are just getting within reach of buying a car. We have about 5% of the worlds population. Do the math. It could get bad, and it will be worse for your kids.

Noone's saying you have to ditch your teener. Accept the challenge - get a clean modern engine, clean up an old engine - or go electric! You could also run propane - which will also get you into the HOV lane (IIRC). There are plenty of pre 75 teeners about if you want to run gasolene, and experiment with the 75 and 76 cars. Or just swap them out of state.

Be grateful that the original version of this law did not pass. The original version just killed the exemption and EVERY CAR would be in for the smog check. That is not what is happening, so every car who has ever been smog exempt is still smog exempt.

I'm still waiting for a Jake Raby PZEV motor....... Bring it on.