Don -
Because, if a car is only worth $500, $1,000 or $2,000
(i.e. like a '79 ford grenada for example), and it
would cost say $500 a year to register it... people
would give the cars away and get something newer...
but classic car owners would always keep their cars.
All you have to do is look at where I live. Here in
Hong Kong (the capitalist mecca for the world) it
costs typically about $1,000 per year to register your
car - and the result is all you have on the the road
are newer, clean cars (typically nothing more than 10
years old) with the exception of classic cars... which
are here in abundance. By the way, income tax rate
here is 16% flat income tax... so you can't say the
government is being greedy.
Strange to see you are so dismissively anti - green...
do you care about what sort of planet you leave your
grandchildren?
Cheers,
Alan
'53 BN1 '64 BJ8
, but it costs --- Don Anglesey <Don@Anglesey.us>
wrote:
> EAT, DRINK and be MERRY for tomorrow you may be in
> California!!!! How
> is tripling the registration rate going to get older
> cars off the road
> and reduce emissions? Older classic cars are not
> the problem,
> California's green team is. The faster that they
> can get back to the
> horse and buggy the better.
> Don 57 BN4
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