California passes law requiring ‘smog checks’ for semis

Are they modified or is it just the "clean air accessories" malfunctioning? I can't tell you how many 5 year old or newer trucks I've seen blowing constant streams of smoke worse than the old 80s motors, and these are usually very clearly not illegally modified.

 

Could you mention something what is not deadly in state of California? I think they listed everything.

 

There is a very valid reason as to why California has such restrictive anti-smog regulations....

I lived in southern California nearly all my life. Los Angeles used to be known as one of the smoggiest cities on the planet back in the 70’s. When I was in grade school, some days the air was so bad that we weren’t allowed to even go outside during recess. The air was visably dark brown and it smelled like gasoline. Your lungs would actually feel a light burn and you would also feel nausea as well. This applied to the entire LA basin, an area huge in square miles. The middle of the afternoons would be as dark as a partial, lunar eclipse on an otherwise sunny day. Eerie.
Something needed to be done, and California stepped up and began to enact very necessary laws to clean things up. And it worked. In fact, it worked so well that few people even remember as to why California enacted the laws in the first place. The filthy, dangerous air is, at the moment, mostly a thing of the past.

Now for the new dirt floating in the air....
Because of both California’s and the EPA’s standards, the big corporations are not making as much money in profits as they would like. Those clean air and clean environment standards cost money and therefore reduce profits. So, the big corporations are doing a very good job of providing false, misinformation to the public ( via talk radio, the internet, paid advertisements, and even corporate controlled ‘news’) stating how bad all these environmental regulations are. And then, the ultimate goal is to get public support in their favor to eliminate these restrictions altogether. And it’s working. These corporations actually have us fully supporting the elimination of legislation that was painstakingly built from the ground up with the sole purpose of the protection of the public. And it’s not just California now; it’s happening nationally and even globally.

We’re willfully killing ourselves as well as our children and we don’t even know it.....yet....

 

So why the never ending escalating of the regulations then? For all the environmental screaming about air quality and need for ever tighter regulations you'd think nothing has changed, and some of us are simply sick and tired of hearing about it.

 

Have you noticed all the radical, new, weather changes lately?
Frequent hurricanes, wildfires, droughts, floods, heatwaves, storms, etc. like never before. At least in human history and certainly nothing like I’ve ever seen before.

Maybe thats why you keep hearing about it.

 

Ok, you've now gone from a sane point to absolute, bat ####, rubber room time nuts in the head. There has always been extremes in weather, if you read any history at all you know this, and it's always going to be that way nothing you or I or anybody is going to be able to do about it.

 

Where we were near Baltimore by the sea, the biggest issue was leaded gas. Go into the mobil station to slosh some into that tank and always a little splash on the ground.

I cannot imagine the cleanup that would have been required for the next business to buy them out and move in that corner.

Considering what leaded gas was Im surprised I still have a functional body.

I actually might have a lead additive for fuel on a shelf somewhere waiting for a older V8 to see it as a treat provided the fuel system and internals are original. We had a station until the 90's where its possible to buy Leaded gas among other fuels there. About 6 different fuels in addtion to your regular road fuels. I remember getting a small two gallon can of it here and there and they always asked questions, I tell them Ive got a old lawn mower from the early 60's back in the city that needs this stuff. Oh ok.

Just be sure not to keep coming back to it more than once a month with that car. lol.

 

The problem with this attitude is ignoring history.

100 plus years ago, there were a lot of cases of extreme weather. Back before the country was founded, we had a lot of changes in weather. We had a year without summer a while after 1800 and so on. The worst weather we faced happened in the 30's, not now.

Let's forget the global warmup in 1000 ad, actually there is a well researched book on that single year. There was a blog article written about it stating that because this was one of four or five cycles ever 1000 years after the ice age, places like Greenland and artic had enough momentum to stay cold and icy from the ice itself.

 

CARB is there for everyone to read. Gas burning cars are soon to be a thing of the past.

 

soon ? no sir. not going to happen in 25 years.