Re: [Amc-list] California Smog Bill

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
" 
" --- Sandwich Maker <adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
" 
" there's a case - in az iirc -
" > where a power co
" > lobbied heavily for a scrapping law, so they could
" > buy up the
" > pollution credits [based on estimates, not actual
" > measurements] and
" > not have to clean up their stacks. 
" 
" I personally have no quarrel with the pollution
" credits granted to industry for scrapping old
" cars.....as long as it's someone ELSE's old cars.

my objection is that it isn't based on the scrapped car in question's
actual emissions, but on some kind of phonied-up estimate of what
maybe it might possibly emit under certain conditions and
circumstances.  that means your excellently-maintained collectible is
scored exactly the same as the clapped-out heap smoking and leaking 
from every seam and plug and running on only 3 cylinders.

" At
" least the law has been modified here in CA (in the LA
" Basin at least) to allow buy backs of old cars before
" they go to the crusher, and the junkyards are no
" allowed to sell parts off of the car after they hit
" the yards.  They just cannot sell the whole car once
" it is finally accepted for scrap.

that's a ray of sanity!

" > seems to me the ca epa themselves has admitted that
" > all older cars
" > combined pollute less than the newer cars which are
" > badly maintained,
" > and the national epa has stated that keeping a car
" > maintained and on
" > the road regardless of age is less polluting than
" > scrapping and
" > replacing it with a new car, no matter how clean.
" 
" Yeah, but it's hard to install a DVD player in your
" old car to entertain the kids and that GPS navigation
" is sure nice.  Without that, we might actually have to
" ASK directions or read a map.   What would you do with
" your IPOD?  Oh, the dilemna. 

1. no steenkin kids
2. handheld gps is good enough
3. no radio, never mind dvd
4. ipod? probably try to install linux on it.
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