On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Gene D. Bennett wrote:
> ** Legislators and regulators are feeling the heat
> from a failed effort to meet air quality goals and are
> looking for a convenient scapegoat. The old car hobby
> should not carry the burden of their mistakes!
I agree. Perhaps if they made CA law more sane and said that people could
make engine/exhaust modifications to their cars at will, provided that the
amount of HC/CO/CO2 coming out the pipe was within legal limits, might
make more people replace such things as faulty catalytic converters,
pre-cats, air pumps, intake boxes, etc, which are exorbitantly expensive
in California (if you want one with a CARB approval number on it anyway).
And get this - if it doesn't have the CARB number on it - it makes the car
illegal! even if it blows less smog out the pipe, it's still not going to
pass california smog emissions. One of the dumbest things i've ever heard
of, and it seems to be exclusively about padding bureaucrat pockets and
has nothing to do with air quality at all. Repeal that portion of the
law, and I think you'll find many lower-income people suddenly able to
afford to clean up their polluting cars with cheaper replacement parts
from the rest of the country, and stop having to pay off their brother in
law to stick the probe in someone else's 2003 BMW after keying the VIN of
the 1987 Ford into the computer :)
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Scott M. Stone <sstone@foo3.com>
Cisco Certified Network Associate, Sun Solaris Certified Systems Administrator
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