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[frank_nesta17]

Please Read and respond.

California Introduces Bill to Exempt pre-1981 Vehicles From Emissions Inspection Requirement
In 2004, legislation was enacted to repeal California's rolling emissions-test exemption for vehicles 30 years old and older and replace it with a law requiring the lifetime testing of all 1976 and newer model-year vehicles. This year, a bill has been introduced in the California Senate (S.B. 1224) by Senator Doug LaMalfa ([email protected] ) to exempt all motor vehicles prior to the 1981 model year from the emissions inspection requirement. The bill will be considered in the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee on March 27, 2012.

We Urge You to Contact All Members of the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee (Contact Info Below) Immediately To Request Their Support for S.B. 1224
S.B. 1224 recognizes the minimal impact of pre-1981vehicles on emissions and air quality.


S.B. 1224 acknowledges that pre-1981 vehicles still constitute a minuscule portion of the overall vehicle population and are a poor source from which to look for emissions reduction.


S.B. 1224 endorses the fact that pre-1981 vehicles are overwhelmingly well-maintained and infrequently driven (a fraction of the miles each year as a new vehicle).


For years, legislators, regulators and stationary source polluters have felt the heat from failed efforts to meet air quality goals and have looked to older cars as a convenient scapegoat, using false data and inflated annual mileage assumptions to further their case. S.B. 1224 helps validate the truth. The old car hobby should not continue to carry the burden of past mistakes!
DON'T DELAY! Please contact members of the California Senate Transportation and Housing Committee immediately to request their support of S.B. 1224. Please e-mail a copy of your letter to Steve McDonald at [email protected]. Also, please forward this Alert to your fellow car enthusiasts. Urge them to join the SAN and help defend the hobby! Thank you for your assistance.

Senate Transportation and Housing Committee
To e-mail all members of the Committee, copy and paste the email address block below:

[email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]

Senator Mark DeSaulnier (Chair)
Phone: (916) 651-4007
Email: [email protected]

Senator Ted Gaines (Vice Chair)
Phone: (916) 651-4001
Email: [email protected]

Senator Tom Harman
Phone: (916) 651-4035
Email: [email protected]

Senator Christine Kehoe
Phone: (916) 651-4039
Email: [email protected]

Senator Alan Lowenthal
Phone: (916) 651-4027
Email: [email protected]

Senator Fran Pavley
Phone: (916) 651-4023
Email: [email protected]

Senator Michael Rubio
Phone: (916) 651-4016
Email: [email protected]

Senator Joe Simitian
Phone: (916) 651-4011
Email: [email protected]

Senator Mark Wyland
Phone: (916) 651-4038
Email: [email protected]

 

[big2bird]

Of course, our Vette is an 81.:hissyfit::hissyfit::hissyfit:

 

[frank_nesta17]

I hope all you California Forum members are responding, no matter what year vette you are driving. This can only help the hobby for all of us. Please take the time and respond. Thanks to all of you who have already responded.:drink:

 

[frank_nesta17]

SEMA UPDATE

Effort to Exempt Pre-1981 Vehicles From California's Emissions Inspection Requirement Dropped For the Year


Legislation (S.B. 1224) to exempt all motor vehicles prior to the 1981 model year from the emissions inspection requirement will not be reconsidered by the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee after failing its initial vote. According to bill sponsor Senator Doug LaMalfa, "Although the bill was granted reconsideration, the opponents contend the exemption is intended as a means of ignoring the effects of pollution caused by older, high-emissions vehicles rather than a legitimate benefit for classic car collectors whose vehicles are rarely driven. My efforts to convince my colleagues of the merits of the bill have been unsuccessful, and therefore, the bill has been dropped for this year and, of course, I am very disappointed."


This is not the first setback we've suffered at the hands of the California legislature nor is it likely to be the last. However, we can take comfort in the fact that lawmakers like Senator LaMalfa continue to push for fairness in how the state's vehicle inspection laws are applied, particularly to rarely used, well-maintained collector cars.

On behalf of the SEMA Action Network, thank you to all the dedicated California hobbyists who participated in this campaign.

 

[mrvette]

HUGE waste of time over nothing, not ONCE have the green weenies been proven correct, not ONCE....ever....

talk about the deliberate taking apart of industrial societies over nothing....

THAT is it.....

:sos::suicide:

 

[big2bird]

HUGE waste of time over nothing, not ONCE have the green weenies been proven correct, not ONCE....ever....

Huh?
DDT? Above ground Nuclear testing? Arsenic and Cyanide in drinking water? Love Canal? How about blood letting or treating illness with Mercury?

Gene, I love ya bro, but you DO distort the truith so far right it's unreal at times.

 

[Sam Cogley]

HUGE waste of time over nothing, not ONCE have the green weenies been proven correct, not ONCE....ever....

Huh?
DDT? Above ground Nuclear testing? Arsenic and Cyanide in drinking water? Love Canal? How about blood letting or treating illness with Mercury?

Gene, I love ya bro, but you DO distort the truith so far right it's unreal at times.

I was thinking that we haven't seen a river catch on fire in..what?...40 years?

 

[turtlevette]

HUGE waste of time over nothing, not ONCE have the green weenies been proven correct, not ONCE....ever....

Huh?
DDT? Above ground Nuclear testing? Arsenic and Cyanide in drinking water? Love Canal? How about blood letting or treating illness with Mercury?

Gene, I love ya bro, but you DO distort the truith so far right it's unreal at times.

I remember when i was a kid living in Lake Charles Lousiana when we drove past PPG industries yellow crap coming out of about 20 stacks, gray crap coming out of some and white out of others. 24/7 365. It was so bad you'd have to hold your nose.

That doesn't mean i'm against allowing a small segment to continue to drive their old vehicles. There's a reasonable balance we need to hit going forward.

 

[Sam Cogley]

Even if every Corvette, Mustang, Camaro/Firebird, Jag XKE, Chevelle, etc. ever built was still on the road, it would still be a drop in the bucket of the total atmospheric pollutants emitted. Definitely has to be some middle ground to be found.