Re: San Francisco EXEMPT from California smog checks!!

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From: GeneK
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2002 19:50

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"John Higdon" <no-spam@ClearChannel.RadioMonopoly.com> wrote...

> Nothing other than the 15% failure rate oft quoted in the media. Fortunately
> motorcycles are exempt.

15% seems about right to me, or possibly even low considering the condition
of a lot of the cars I see on the road around me.

> On a side note, I see that the media has suddenly decided that "global
> warming" is now the number-one concern. Accordingly, the state legislature
> has been passing some laws to amend the laws of physics and mandate that
> combustion processes will no longer involve CO2 as a by-product. This will
> correct all of the global meteorological inconveniences. All we have to
> suffer is a wrecked economy for some rather unidentifiable benefits. Not a
> bad tradeoff, I suppose.
>
> I just don't know what we would do without all these governmental geniuses
> watching over us.

Sounds about par for the course to me.  I predict this will eventually end up
going the way of all those proposals in the 80's to force employers to charge
their workers to park on their premises.

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