[Zeke]

Look, guys, in 3 more years, the way it is now before the bill takes effect; years '76-79 would have been allowed to become exempt from biannual inspection. If it's old clunkers you're talking about, how many of these things would have survived that long?


I guess the DMV knows how many, and what type of 30 yr old cars are registered. I don't. Long Beach was the poorest city in the ENTIRE state in 2002 with the highest number of residents living below the national established poverty level. This is the last year that statistics are available thru the US Census Bureau and things haven't gotten any better. So, if that's the situation, you'd have to believe that LB would have a lot of clunkers running around. Not as far as I can see.

This law is pure BS, it's a political agenda for some legislators to get their name on a bill and a bunch have tried before. It just didn't make it to the governor's desk before, that I know of. One of the former bill authors was Dan Flores of the San Joaquin Valley. They have some serious smog there in the southern valley. They also have a very low population density. So where does their smog come from?

Well, they have the oil industry and the farming industry. Farming is almost completely unregulated. Maybe smog comes from something other than 30 year old cars. You think?


What was Flores' interest in the bill? It was even pointed out to him that many field laborers were driving older cars to work (that were parked for 10-12 hours) and that his bill would make them suffer. They were talking about Mexican laborers and Flores is of Mexican descent. Again, ask yourself, what was he doing? Does money talk in this scenario? It doesn't add up.

As some have pointed out here, they're looking in the wrong places. You who think the time has come for more government regulation (yes, I understand that we're not talking about a whole new system here, just modifying the old one) can look forward to more oppressive government regulation as the proverbial foot gets in the door. No doubt about it, I don't favor this and don't think the facts support this move to inspect the dwindling number of older transportation vehicles in order to reduce smog is valid.

So, I don't agree with those of you that support or even tolerate this legislation. I'm pissed as a long time car freak. I stand for the car enthusiast, plain and simple. You want to legislate more of what I can do and can't do, especially on an old car that you hardly see, well, you can suck on my tail pipe.

I really can't get behind a bunch of let's-all-live-in-a-tree socialists. (I didn't capitalize that word, so I didn't call anyone a member of a politcal party.)

logging off pissed