[DeTomaso] More Calif Smog

[Rick]

This is from another mailing list, another smog law that will if passed 
probably be copied in other states. After all, it is about money and not 
necessarily about clean air. This will    have no effect on cars that 
are 1975 and older. 
Calif has a new one now,  soon you will have to smog  your car every
 > year, not every
 > two years as before, thanks  Arnold...
 > Rick
 >
     Ok, a friend at work said it had passed.  I just checked and it is
in the appropriation committee suspense file. Not sure what that means
but so far only 60 individuals and the Alfa Romeo car club has voiced
opposition.  If no one notifies their rep, it will probably pass. The
laws always seem to hit the easiest group, old car owners, not the ships
and factories. The bill is AB616.

Ian wrote:
 >
 > I heard that was only in the voting phase, not passed yet.  It's a 15 
  year
 > "rolling" thing, where it'll start as the first 15 years of smog, 
then add  one
 > one for every consecutive year.  No?  All I gotta say is.. "EFF  THAT 
GUY!"
 > Like he really gives a crap about smog and pollution anyway,  driving 
Hummers
 > and vetoing the bill that would make the biggest impact on smog  in 
the LA
 > basin.  The bill that would have limited the number of ships  allowed 
to sit
 > idling, pumping smog into the LA harbor as they sit offshore  waiting 
for days to
 > be unloaded.  ALL he sees is the money and not the big  picture or how
 > hypocritical it is with respect to the smog laws  themselves.
 >