RE: [ihc] About those parking brakes .....

[Steven Stegmann <steve.stegmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,

You're depressing me.  She probably believes in the
Kyoto treaty too.

Steve
--- Tom Harais <THarais@domain.elided> wrote:

> Mac:
> 
> Mac:
> 
> Only vehicles produced for MY 1976 and later, except
> for vehicles less than
> 4 years old, are required to have a Smog check in
> California upon change of
> ownership or biennially.  1975 and earlier vehicles
> are exempt ------------
> for now.  ARB has made statements about wanting to
> pull those in too! They
> noted:  "There are about 50,000 1976 and earlier
> vehicles registered in
> California.  They pollute up to 122 times as much as
> a new car."  There
> unstated goal is to get those off the road but not
> have to compensate
> anyone.  Its government at it's worst.
> 
> Their failures are:
> 
> 1) Even if there are 50,000 earlier model vehicles
> on the road (see next
> item) and they do emit 122 times as many pollutants
> as a new car when
> operating, there are over 36,000,000 registered
> vehicles in the state.  That
> comes out to just over 1/10th of a percent 0.14% of
> all registered vehicles
> in the state.  Not a significant number to pass
> special legislation for.
> 
> 2) Even if they do pollute 122 times as much as a
> new car (what science they
> base this on is subject to conjecture, just as their
> comment was in the
> first place), in the overwhelming majority of cases
> they aren't being driven
> anywhere near as frequently, time or distance wise,
> as a new car.  I'm sure
> that many of the pre-76 vehicles registered are
> "trailer queen" show cars
> and such.  Even my less-than-show-quality Scout
> which sees 1,000 miles/year
> if it's lucky, adds less to the air pollution
> problem than my neighbor's
> Prius that gets driven 30,000 miles annually.  They
> need to get some solid
> facts and do some serious math before cooking up
> plans that cost John Q
> millions of dollars with dubious public benefits.  
> 
> But believe me, you don't want to question ARB
> scientists.  I have. :-(  In
> fact, one that I've worked with quite a bit likes to
> call herself "Doctor"
> because she has a PhD.  But, her PhD is in something
> like food science and
> not physics, chemistry, medicine or biology.  She is
> also a do-gooder, '60's
> throwback who refuses to recognize that times have
> changed.  She hates
> "profit" and "corporations".  She believes that
> "businesses" such as the
> auto makers, are the sworn enemies of regulators
> such as her because they
> are greedy and corrupt and could care less about the
> environment.  Don't
> ever try to tell here that businesses, same as
> governmental agencies, are
> just human organizations with all the good and bad
> that the sum of the
> people that compromise them entail.  Nope.  For her
> it's government good,
> business bad.  It's that black and white.
> 
> I do not believe Mac that you have to have a pre-76
> vehicle Smog inspected
> if brought in from out of state at this time.  That
> went away with the "out
> of state smog fees" that was ruled unconstitutional
> by the supreme court a
> few years back.
> 
> I'm surprised that you can keep your vehicles
> registered in California while
> living in Texas.  Here, you have twenty days from
> entering the state to get
> them registered in CA.  There is a non-resident
> military exemption, but even
> it doesn't include everyone under every
> circumstance.
> 
>
http://www.dmv.org/ca-california/motor-vehicles-vehicle-registration.php
> 
> 
> Tom H., '76 Traveler