[SierraWasp]

Now he's resurrecting the dead SMOG-CHECK-II program to crush my heritage autos/trucks/RVs, to kill the classic car show business with tax dollars we simply cannot afford! That's why the damned program was shut down in 2002 in the first place!!!

CA, this is your aledged Republican Governor pandering to GANG-GREEN, once again!!! The massive GovernMental expansion with the Sierra-Nevada CONservancy just wasn't enough to make him GANG-GREEN's Governator. How much more of this crappola are you people gonna just stand there and smile helplessly about?

You call this REFORM???

Yes, even Gray Davis had enough sense to kill this in 2002, like he did the CONservancy! What's wrong with this Arnold? He's not going to win any love from the left with this and it's hurting people financially and the state fiscally!!!

[Andy from Beaverton]

The problem isn't the new vehicles, it's the very old ones that don't have to be inspected.

[SierraWasp]

Bring me you tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free...

[sheana]

I would have much more respect for Arnold if he proposed removing the 2-3 million illegal immigrants (taxpayer subsidized laborers) from California.
That would go a long way to solving quite a few of our problems.

[forester]

If one is low income and their U.S. made car cannot pass State mandated smog checks, the State should either pay the low income person for taking their car, or help them fix it. That said, there should be exemptions for historic vehicles.

Personally, I think that these smog checks are an unfunded mandate forced on people. I also think the smog check industry has become a regulated monopoly.

I am not totally opposed to this...maybe I am missing something here...you seam to be little more outraged then usual....fill me in.

[traumer]

"Governor says goal is to remove 15,000 polluting vehicles from road "

Sponsored by GM - Ford - Chrysler...

[Digger]

Meanwhile from the front page of this rag is another article portion here - "In January, Schwarzenegger backed a proposal that would have limited state spending to available revenue and enabled the governor to make across- the-board cuts when the Legislature failed to adopt a balanced budget. That measure would have prevented the state's current fiscal crisis by forcing lawmakers to raise taxes or cut spending to keep each year's budget in line with available revenue. The proposal still exists as a bill in the Legislature. But by endorsing the ballot measure, Schwarzenegger is effectively abandoning his earlier idea, since Democratic lawmakers are unlikely to agree to more than what is in the initiative".

How has he closed the spending gap? He BORROWED the money, strapped us with bonds. Just another phony RINO that the so-called conservatives would run for president if they could. DON'T BLAME ME - I VOTED FOR MCCLINTOCK.

[scooter2]

Does this mean AHHHNOLD is willing to get rid of his Hummer?

[calcowgirl]

Another thread:

Governor wants junk cars off the road
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1364676/posts

[traumer]

Schwarzenegger '08 !!

[Churchillspirit]

Dang! Just sold my 20 year old Caddy for $20.

At it's last DMV smog inspection, it was classified as a 'gross polluter'.

That hurt - I loved that car.

[Logical me]

Something has got to be done. A few years back I was driving on the freeway and got stuck behind a smoking jackass. Made a lane change as soon as I could. When I parked at the mall parking lot, I noticed on my windshield and hood of my car was a few black spots. Thinking they were just something that I could wipe off, guess what. OIL! So, what in the he@@ is your suggestion?

[CitizenUSA]

I know nothing about the California smog checks, but I don't see how the grants could kill the classic car show business. Most classic cars in running condition are worth more than $1000, and their owners won't part with them. Sorry, but I'm not going to cry over a mid-80's Plymouth Reliant being turned into scrap. I think the impact to true classics will be virtually nil.

[Carry_Okie]

I can think of one million, fifty-three thousand, nine hundred thirty-five reasons for this policy.

I drive my '69 Dodge Power Wagon MAYBE 500 miles per year, half of which is on my own property. It isn't worth getting a new truck, but I can't do without it.

[farmfriend]

Time for Carry_Okie to repost his wonderful graphs on the NRDC and their funding sources etc. BTW, I'm going to be sending those to the people I talked with the last few days.

[farmfriend]

All lists.

[BurbankKarl]

I was driving next to Jay Leno this week in his Roadmaster.....he was burning leaded fuel...I havent smelled that in decades.

[freepatriot32]

thanks god the california ""conservatives"" didnt vote for MCCLINTOCK becasue he would have lost and then cali would be run by a car grabbing gun banning environazi socialist liberal....... oh wait nevermind

[LibertarianInExile]

Lemme do the math here.

15,000 children spend time in California hospitals each year.

Ahnold plans to spend $16.3 million to pull cars off the road.

That's a little over a thousand bucks a kid, and that's all just to do something that will only somewhat do something that might prevent them from 'visiting hospitals,' which as we all know means in liberal-speak 'not using their aerosol spray and getting all wheezy so their mommies get worried.' Couldn't California just give each of the little lungers a grand and tell them to go hack up their puny little airways in some other state? I'm sure New Mexico's dry desert breezes or the salty Massachussetts sea air would do them well.

[monkeyshine]

There was a woman who ran for mayor of Los Angeles who proposed installing giant vacuums in the San Gabriel mountains to suck all the pollution out and move it into the desert.