[R W Burgess]

A good reason to keep our old cars running Terry, even as daily drivers.

I wonder when they are going to pass a law to require older cars to have that "yellow light" reset before getting an inspection? You know the one, the "check engine" that stays on forever, now that you threw the throttle bodies away in lieu of a big Holly on an aluminum intake. [img]<>/eek.gif[/img] [img]<>/smile.gif[/img]

Wayne

[MCHinson]

In NC, cars over 35 years old are exempt from inspection, but modern cars now have to be connected to the DMV computer remotely for the "safety" inspection which requires all trouble codes to be clear before the car will pass the inspection.

[windjamer]

Welcome to the club Matt. NY. has had that system for a few years now. Its a pita. You can turn it off but codes are stored and the vech still wont pass until its driven long enough to self clear codes and run all monators. Guess what, if you spend I am not sure I think its $500. to make repairs (emmision) and the light is still on you can get a one year examption. Go figure.

[durant28]

That's why Florida did away with inspections years ago and I was one for it 100%. I too was a law enforcement officer but still saw so much nonsense it was ridiculous. People would take tires off the car, put a set of borrowed ones on and then pass inspection and put the old back on. Or they would go to the inspection station that was known to be more lenient or busy to get their car through. Some would get failed by one, go down the highway about 30 miles and pass at another. I also saw that many of the states that had the gas stations do the inspection like West Virginia did at one time, were subject to a lot of under the table payments etc. If you had a company with a fleet you could slip the guy some money and he'd pass all your vehicles. Now we only have inspection in some heavily populated counties like Dade, Broward, Hillsborough etc for emissions.

[windjamer]

Mike at one time NY had one of the best safty inspections of all.Then they started to think like Calif., and we all know what comes from Calif. Damm few with horns. The first thing they done was elimanate the inspection of ball joints. What the heck all they do is hold the wheels on. I love it when I see the flat bed draging one in,esp. after we told the owner a mo. previosly the ball joint needed replacement.Next we done away with headlight adj. WHO needs to see?? But by God that fuel tank better have a air tight cap!! That stuf stinks. Go Figure

[oldohioan]

Originally Posted By: joe_padavano

And Obama has already said he does not support that idea.

So much for the 'death' of the mileage tax idea!! Read em and.........

http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=1002

An excerpt from the document:........
However, a "special commission" created by Congress is still pursuing the idea. And, of course, they are painting a dire situation in order to justify another government intrusion into our private lives.

Its report Thursday warns that if government fails to find a new way to raise money, "we will suffer grim consequences in the future: unimaginable levels of congestion, reduced safety, costlier goods and services, an eroded quality of life, and diminished economic competitiveness as a nation."

"We should look at the vehicular miles program where people are actually clocked on the number of miles that they traveled," LaHood said last week.
.........unquote

We are at the mercy of the 'inventive' geniuses inside the beltway around DC!!

[rocketraider]

What's funny and sad is that, when the revolution starts and heads start to roll, like Marie Antoinette these people will have the nerve to be surprised.

[windjamer]

If the powers that be took the gas tax we pay right now and spent it on our roads and highways as it was ment when created,our roads would be paved wiyh gold. Instead it gets put in the local general fund where its easer to steal.
OH Please, hide my soap box.

[Dave@Moon]

Originally Posted By: oldohioan

Originally Posted By: joe_padavano

And Obama has already said he does not support that idea.

So much for the 'death' of the mileage tax idea!! Read em and.........

http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=1002

An excerpt from the document:........
However, a "special commission" created by Congress is still pursuing the idea. And, of course, they are painting a dire situation in order to justify another government intrusion into our private lives.

Its report Thursday warns that if government fails to find a new way to raise money, "we will suffer grim consequences in the future: unimaginable levels of congestion, reduced safety, costlier goods and services, an eroded quality of life, and diminished economic competitiveness as a nation."

"We should look at the vehicular miles program where people are actually clocked on the number of miles that they traveled," LaHood said last week.
.........unquote

We are at the mercy of the 'inventive' geniuses inside the beltway around DC!!

This "article" was written by one Bobby Eberle, a sometime self-styled "journalist" and full-time conservative GOP fundraiser whose best known organization was the Talon News service. This was the "news organization" (probably never more than 4 or 5 people) known for serving up softball questions staight out of the morning "talking points" memos at afternoon White House news briefings in 2003-2005, and for hiring a full-time gay escort/prostitute, James Dale Guckert (a.k.a. James Gannon), as their White House correspondant.

To say that this is a questionably accurate source of information would be one he!! of an understatement.

This is political muckraking designed to scare people into giving money to the conservative organizations that benefit author of the article (financially).

If you believe anything on web sites or in newpapers that come from sources like this, you deserve what you get.

[oldohioan]

So you are claiming that LaHood didnt say those things as quoted???

I guess maybe we do deserve what we get!!!!