I counter with this, from February:

I’ve owned over 50 vintage cars here in beautiful California without issue. If it wasn’t for tree huggers, we’d all be dead from lung disease. It’s all the inland hicks that cause problems here.

Air quality was absolutely terrible without regulation in 1950 (and that’s with the 1950 population). If we didn’t have tough regulations today could you even imagine? Having a metro area of 20 million people creates a lot of smog and health isssues.

That is absolutely not how PNO (Planned Non-Operation) works. If you declare PNO before renewal (or something like 90 or 180 days after the due date), you pay a small yearly fee to keep PNO status ($12-18, depending on the car). Then, years later, when you decide to operate it, you simply declare the car operational…

LA a liberal powerhouse? Car nuts leaving the state? Ever heard of Jay Leno? Adam Carolla? They seem to get by. Welcome back to reality, outside the conservative world of baseless rants.

Yes, but that would be hard for Doug to explain with a seemingly witty quip.

Yea, sometimes it’s a pain, but you are making huge generalizations.

1 - California is a big state. Smog requirements for downtown LA are not the same as more rural areas. They are much more strict, and for a good reason. Also, you are assuming that everybody in the state takes the 405, or even lives anywhere near LA…

Damn Doug, you sound like one of those anti-environment politicians that liberals complain about.

As someone from CA who moved to MI last year, my advice, don’t do it. there’s no smog checks but everything else sucks. It’s almost the middle of May and it’s 50 degrees outside right now. I don’t know what the hell I was thinking.

So, here’s the thing. This whole “no more rolling cutoff” thing happened for a reason.

the whole “used cat” thing was put in place to prevent and reduce the number of incidents where cats were being stolen from cars. people were getting as brazes as to steal it from cars parked in their owners driveways...

This is so full of the funny, if only because of your username.

I like cars ‘n’ stuff, but I do wonder why people think their car should be allowed to pollute my atmosphere just because it’s old. I can see having (somewhat) higher limits for older cars, so that millions of people don’t immediately have to dump their old rides and buy new ones, but why should anyone be exempt,…

yes, but shouldn't you really have fixed that crap anyway?

And these emissions laws are working, too. Really, really well...

But you're in Texas. Don't you feel unclean?

Are you against California’s tough anti-pollution laws or do you just wish cars didn’t make pollution?

So so true. I sent the Waaaambulance, but it got pulled over at the border and couldn’t get past the emissions referee.

Californian here, don’t care. Keep your stinking pile of shit out of my state, you dirty scum.

Because of CARB, the terrorists win.