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The California emissions standards appear to work. The polution has subsided steadily for the last 20 years.
Also, getting your car checked and passed is no big deal.
I'm not saying it should be enacted elsewhere, just that dealing with it first hand is not problematic.

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Also, getting your car checked and passed is no big deal.

If you live in San Francisco, it's REAL easy.
They were exempted from "Smog Check II".
I was shocked when I saw this on "California Connected" on PBS super-station KCET in Los Angeles.

Funny, they couldn't find a politician in Sacramento to explain why those millions of cars
in San Francisco were exempted from rules that have to be met in Los Angeles and
by poor schmucks in a lot of the rest of the state.

And the few politicos that got on camera simply blanched when asked why it
was OK for cars to San Francisco to simply pump out their exhaust to let if float
eastward into the agricultural regions.

Easy answer...many more votes per square mile (or gas pump) in San Francisco...

I'm not against clean air...it's just that the rules are so arbitrary and crafted
to punish certain groups and reward others.

It's not much removed from that old power to tax...being the power to destroy.