California smog rule might use nation wide

[RiversideS13]

i just saw this at yahoo news. Although this is regarding to industry rule, but maybe one day they will apply automobile rules too?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060630/ap_on_sc/mowers_smog

[s13silvia03]

I know PA has been talking about using the CA smog laws for automobiles....kinda sucks because its pretty easy going now

[spdfreek0o]

Yeah, but you gotta think about the financial aspect of it. Oklahoma did away with their budget for vehicle inspections. And I really don't think they are going to pass a law to increase taxes just for that.

[TheSquidd]

I hope they do do this, then you'll all feel as opressed as us CA people. Of course, they probably wont be so strict on enforcement like they are here.

[pablo180]

This only applies to the small engine market....it will be a while before the rule applies to passenger vehicles. Its a start, but I think targeting the big transport trailers would yield much better results....correct me if i'm wrong...but I think they are exempt from smog laws.

Pablo

[WilloW]

Might?!? More like will, they've been planning on implementing CA style emission laws throughout the whole US. Within the next 3-5 years, it will be likely that every state will have emission testing like CA.

[A Spec Products]

Urrbody wanna be like us.

Technically its better for the environment so sounds fine to me.

[theronin]

its about time they did this. no reason to have 1 state so regulated while the rest just crap all over our environment.

[TheSquidd]

But I wanna shoot flammmmmmmmmes :cry:

[UPTOWN]

that would truly suck. I hope that is not the case.

[trsilvias13]

I already deal with it. It only sucks for a few month. Have to wait till the smog people figure out how to cheat the system, then after that a new smog technique will roll out. Dyno smog.. ha.. easy as cake for some smog tech.

[Ritz S14]

I doubt it's gonna happen. Smog machines go for ~$35k+. A lot of low volume shops wouldn't be able to finance it. And a lot of other states charge less than $20 to get their car tested.