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Re: Report: California Looking To Restrict Travel For Classic Cars

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On Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 7:04:37 PM UTC-6, Stupid California Environmentalists wrote:
> On 15 Feb 2022, Lefty Lundquist <lefty_l...@ggmail.com> posted some 
> news:suguiu$b2a$3...@dont-email.me: 
> 
> > The Democrat Nazis will stop at nothing until the state is destroyed - 
> > then they will blame those who left the insanity created by unfettered 
> > left-wing government. 
> 
> The state is looking at instituting “zero-emission zones” soon. 
> The state of California is looking seriously at instituting or allowing 
> local governments to institute zero-emission zones in the near future. 
> In preparation for such a move, the California Air Resources Board 
> (CARB) reportedly is gathering information about classic cars and how 
> their owners use them. We knew something like this was coming to the US 
> and California would likely be first, but this is still concerning. 
> 
> Check out another ridiculous car regulation in California here. 
> 
> According to a Daily Caller report, on August 2 CARB sent a survey to 
> owners of classic cars from model year 1978 or earlier. The questions 
> were aimed at ascertaining how those classics are used and store, as 
> well as where they’re driven. It even asks about how many miles show on 
> owners’ odometers. Knowing how increasingly authoritarian many 
> government agencies seems to be trending, this is concerning to many car 
> enthusiasts who still live in the Golden State. 
> 
> Back in the day, California was arguably the epicenter of cool car 
> culture with many legendary brands, builders, and other hobbyists 
> emerging from the state. That all emerged at a time when individual 
> expression, not institutionalized expression, reigned supreme. 
> Unfortunately, that looks to be going the way of the dodo before long. 
> 
> Daily Caller also points out how CARB issued a report back in 2019 
> suggesting the state should allow “local jurisdictions to create 
> zero-emissions zones.” If that sounds a little too similar to the ULEZ 
> zones that have taken over all of London’s boroughs in the UK, with 
> plate readers fining people daily for violations, you’re not alone. 
> 
> California car culture already isn’t what it used to be but is still 
> pretty amazing. However, moves like this could accelerate the current 
> trajectory. 
> 
> Of course, the justification for full-on banning older cars from certain 
> areas or making the owners pay a daily fee to drive there is climate 
> change. After seeing the amount of emissions produced by private jets, 
> cruise ships, EV mining/production, Space X rockets, and many other 
> things that are widely celebrated, defended, and/or enjoyed one can’t 
> help but feel cynical about these mounting restrictions. 
> 
> But California has a net-zero carbon emissions goal set for 2045 and so 
> we can expect even more restrictions on the horizon. We hope it doesn’t 
> get to the point that authorities go door to door looking for classic 
> cars to seize and crush, but the mere mention of zero-emission zones 
> would’ve been dismissed as crazy conspiracy theory only a few short 
> years ago. 
> 
> Roscoe 
> 25 September, 2023 
> 
> Like electric cars, once again California does not calculate the future 
> impact of the life cycle of their decisions. This is more symbolic than 
> actually functional. Kinda like tearing down statues. As Golda Meir said 
> "One cannot and must not try to erase the past  >_merely_< because it does 
> not fit the present." 

Your use of the word merely seems strange here.  There are lots of reasons for erasing these idols I mean cars that abusive guys worship.  Noise, fuel ratio, carbon monoxide/dioxide emissions (which is the one that you brought up) and that personally I don't care for them.  I saw Back to the Future and they're all the same to me.  Beetles.  Yeck.  I don't think aerodynamics had been discovered until 1960 when the cars on Dukes of Hazzard emerged like bats into the night.  There is no california.  Living in il during the late 1980s it arose that "cruising" became outlawed.  I still did it anyways, and then I got a ticket for cruising to the bowling alley with B.J. Jones on my hood clutching the windshield wipers.  Buy the new models!  It's not like you haven't seen a Ford ad in the past week.  Get out there and get yourself a new car! Carwise Peoria just one dime!  Ten cents gets you $25,000 credit as long as you bring in $350 a week.
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anti-cruising was strange to me because how are they supposed to enforce it?  that's one of the signs of a new law

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