DeTomaso Mailing List: June 97, Message #216
     



From: Asa Jay Laughton <asajay.laughton@itron.com>

Subject: Re: SB42 status (long)

Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 15:34:21 -0700



>How Many Cars are Effected?  According to the California Air Resources Board,

>over 200,000 vehicles would be exempted in the South Coast Air Basin,

causing 

>an increase of three tons per day in air pollutants based on an average

use of

>5,000 miles/year.



Okay, so the CARB agrees with the Senators number of vehicles, now I just

want to know how they figure this 3 ton per day increase in emissions?  Is

there some sort of assumption these vehicles are NOT being driven

currently? but WOULD BE if the bill were passed?  I mean come on now.

These cars are currently being inspected and there is a known baseline.

Does CARB actually expect the emissions to grow that much that rapidly just

because they are not inspected anymore?  Is there some magic part on these

cars that KNOWS it's being exempted and starts polluting more?



Incidentally, I talked with one of our representative yesterday about SB42,

and he hadn't heard about it.  He did comment however that Washington would

probably never even introduce a bill like that.  It seems the

evironmentalists run the place and a bill like that would be dead before it

hit the door.



I would like to see more information about current studies on Oxygenated fuel.



Asa Jay





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