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Originally posted by island911
You guys, down there are voting on a red herring.
Just what percentage of the cars on the road down there are over 30 y/o ? . . just what percentage of polution do they contribute?
Seems to me, that worrying about 30 y/o cars being up-to-snuff, (testing) is like worrying about whether farmer-John is keeping his cows washed & brushed (to keep the flys off) while they fart & crap all day long.
Get this;
"Only 2 percent of the vehicles on California's roads are diesel-powered and yet, diesel vehicles account for 31% of the total smog forming oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and 79% of the total particulate matter (PM) emissions produced by on-road vehicles. " (source)
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I'm right there with you buddy. The thing that gets me is that this bill has extremely little in the way of supporting evidence. It just "sounds" good to the public who likes new cars and who can afford new cars. What you have there is that the real serious polluters are those trucks that provide the country with it's GDP - well...we can't mess with that can we. No...in fact, let's allow mexican trucks into the country as well. What's mexico's air quality? It's crap and it's mainly because of those trucks and other diesel powered contraptions.
I also wouldn't mind paying a fee to bypass emissions to some extent but the thing is I DON'T WANT to bypass emissions I just want to modify my car and still pass.
I hate to call bull$hit on our host but the tests that I am aware of only test for the common green house gases if I'm wrong I'll admit it but it seems that the only measurements I see are NOX, CO, CO2 and HC. All of which are gathered with a tailpipe test and on later cars can be gathered via the on board computer. On early cars though, checking the emissions equipments existence does nothing if the car passes the tail pipe tests for those gases.