Date:         Sun, 12 Jun 2011 05:38:35 -0700
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From:         BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: The Dreaded Emissions test
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And we were doing so well trying to answer Ken's question until now. Please
try your best to keep politics out of the discussion.

Just a reminder. Ken's question is how to pass Utah emission
inspection. Nothing in his posting about California, birth rates, or big
business.


BenT
Mod



On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 5:17 AM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you, good explaination.
>
>  I often question the intelligence of our government's attempts to fix or
> modulate some of the problems that we have.  The way the US and the
various
> states have legi$lated in regards to motor vehicles is particularly hard
to
> believe, at times.
>
>  I will say that California HAS reduced their smog problem since I lived
> there full time many years ago.  They just seem to go about it thinking
> mainly about what the big business interests say they will accept.  With
all
> the money that gets spent on smog legislation and enforcement and
'band-aid'
> fixes like Cat converters and EGRs, a more Euro approach might have been a
> whole lot more sensible...
>
>  A decent public transport system, nation-wide.  Then, when we run out of
> petroleum, we would have an already existing way to get to work or go
visit
> Grandma.  Small effective cars like are sold in the rest of the
world..that
> would help too.  And perhaps a little birth control...too many people is
> really the cause of all our problems, but no one dares mention that.
>
>  It's a fact that the average speed of each automobile on the LA freeway
> system is just 18mph...Millions of individual autos, day after day, going
> back and forth at ~18mph, idling in Grid Lock...That makes no
> sense....except to the oil lobby, I guess.
>
>  Don Hanson
>
>
>