C’mon BobL... Think just a little bit about how many fewer miles and how many fewer in number they are than those newer models being driven twice daily and twice as far in the commuting hoards of today. A little commonsense goes a long way in this discussion!!!
“C’mon BobL... Think just a little bit about how many fewer miles and how many fewer in number they are than those newer models being driven twice daily and twice as far in the commuting hoards of today. A little commonsense goes a long way in this discussion!!!”
I hear you. But that was one of the biggest problems in California over the decades. The AQMD and others knew full well that old cars were causing at least half of the pollution (back then), even though they were, at most, 10% of the cars.
But they had a problem: The demands of SOCIAL JUSTICE required that the people driving these cars (i.e., the lower classes) be left along, so they went after everything else they could think of - newer cars, trucks, and shutting down “point sources”, as they call them (factories, as the rest of us call them).
But in the end, the old cars simply would not go away, people loved the fact that they could drive them with impunity and they don’t rust. So they stayed on the road, exempt from inspection...and a new model year, every year, earned that distinction. They finally had enough (about 10 years ago) and got rid of the 25 year exemption and simply said 1976 and newer will ALWAYS be inspected.
I know I sound leftist, but if you want clean air, it makes a LOT MORE sense to get these cars off the road, rather than shutting down what remains of productive employment.