Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 14:19:25 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Failed Ca Smog due to Evaporative leak
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Don..
the whole purpose of that entire bureaucracy is to create and justify jobs..
nothing to do with what is reasonable and practical.
Not *really* about smog ..that's just their cover.
if they were reasonable and practical..
they would PAY people to remove their old polluting vanagon engines and
install a 20 years newer far less polluting ..
and more fuel efficient late Subaru engine.
it's like the military or any very large organization..
it is not possible for them to be practical, efficient, or reasonable
much at all.
and hey ..they need their paychecks, so they have to justify their jobs..
not that I want polluting cars around..
I just want it to be reasonable...and not all bureaucratic and variable.
On 4/6/2012 3:28 PM, Don Hanson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:59 AM, John Bange<jbange@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd be tempted to bring it to another test station. I've had both my vans
>> tested in several places, and each one of them has marked that part of the
>> test N/A.
>>
> Snipped.....
>
> Ok, this is a Friday sort of rap...
>
> This is exactly why I find California and the CARB such a ludicrous
> farce! They make up really arbitrary stupid tests and standards that have
> not much to do with what actually goes out into the atmosphere. Test
> standards that are mainly about what goes into or out of some computer, the
> States cash register, some politicians election fund or offshore bank
> account of corporations who've paid to get the laws they want.
>
> When they fail a vanagon for not being able to find it's charcoal
> cannister (or something) and pass a couple of dozen coal-fired powerplants,
> when they treat a 1.9 liter motor the same as a 9.1 liter motor, when you
> can just go round paying more testers till you luck out and find one
> who'll do it and pass your vehicle, actual results being irrelevant or
> arbitrary...really lame. When you are told it is unacceptable to swap in a
> less polluting motor...."just because" or because there is no CARB
> paperwork saying you CAN....stupid! When you think of the hundereds of
> thousands of gardners, going round, every hour of every day all over
> California... with those two-stroke power leaf blowers rather than sweeping
> with brooms or rakes...it makes you wonder..."who makes these rules up,
> anyhow"?
>
> When I camp around the desert winters and see all those Gi-normus diesel
> motorhomes being driven to the store, with one retired guy aboard...getting
> a few miles per gallon and yet some families can't get their 50mile per
> gallon Honda CRXs to pass because the gas cap isn't air tight, or
> something...Makes no sense to me...but then who am I ? I am an outlaw,
> anti-green who drives a non-compliant 2.0 liter 'verbooten' engine in my
> old vanagon...Guess I should get social responsible and drive my big Ford
> Pickup again..that is compliant in California...
>
> Friday...
> Don Hanson
>
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