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The state would lose the smog test revenue that it generates from all those 81 and earlier cars. Which, at this point, is the only reason for keeping a law in place that requires smog tests for 35+ year old cars.
The people supporting the bill should change it so that whatever the state's cut of the smog test fee is ($10-$20?), still gets paid by the car owner. So, the car doesn't need to be smogged, but the state still gets its shakedown money.
That money can be designated to a fund to study the effects of smog on quail eggs, or to study some bogus "green energy" nonsense. That will make the bill more palatable (or even irresistible), to the nuts that would otherwise oppose it.
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