>To: Tom Howard <thoward@sdcoe.k12.ca.us>
>From: dsimpson@ds2.ncweb.com (david r simpson)
>Subject: Re: New Cars - Used cars [was Smog II, III,...]
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>>At 08:31 PM 9/25/97 -0700, you wrote:
>>>I might be mistaken, but I seem to recall something in the Calif. papers
>>>long ago that stated that the "new" car manufactures had more to do with
>>>new smog laws then just giving money and providing legal and writing staff.
>>>
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>>Mark,
>>
>>A real indication of how money driven the "Smog-Check" system has become is
>>the "new little rule" that New car owners may wave their first smog check
>>(the one that come some two years after you buy). Oh, yes, you do have to
>>send in a $40 fee to the state for the privilige. The logic is that new
>>cars almost always pass this two year check, so why go through it. The
>>logic is that since the owner is not having to go to the trouble to get the
>>smog check they can pay a fee. By the way, the fee money is to go into a
>>pile to fund the buy-off of OLDER cars to "save our air." Maybe it will.
>>But, it will also mean that someone somewhere will have to buy a NEW car to
>>domino-replace that old car just distroyed. There are more poeple every
>>day, more cars, adding up to more demand.
>>
>>The resulting logic. New-car-owner, your car is in compliance, pay anyway.
>>Not to a service station for a check, not the 7 or 8 dollar "certificate"
>>fee, but rather 5 times that ammount to do your additional fair share in....
>>well, in what? You tell me.
>>
>>
>>Thomas Howard
>>LUSD, (619) 390-2627
>>('72 Triumph GT-6; and a good bit of USA iron)
>>
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>Gee also if the "new" car does not pass the test while it is under the warrenty
>the dealer and factory might be liable for the repairs. Think about that?
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>Dave Simpson
>NE OHIO
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