[geeks] Global Warming questions...

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: wa2egp at att.net
" 
" > The other side of the coin is clean-air measures that impose even
" > tighter restrictions on the barely-polluting 70%-or-so of new and nearly
" > new cars on the road, but simply ignore the 5% to 10% of old clunkers
" > and smog-exempt classic cars that are (by some estimates) responsible
" > for up to 60% of the total vehicular air pollution.
" > 
" > One could, of course, assume that they're simply hoping for attrition to
" > eventually take care of the clunkers.
" 
" This is an argument used to push those car crusher laws.  It is not
" always true.  If an old car is properly maintained, it is not as bad
" as claimed.

this is why i -really-detest- <spit> the gerrymandered 'estimates' of
the crushed car's emissions.  nobody seems interested in actually
-measuring- what they're taking off the road, maybe because it
wouldn't be nearly as much as they claim.

" I once had a 73 Toyota that just before I junked it in
" 85, it went through inspection.  It passed the California pollution
" standards for 85.  The guys at the inspection were asking me how I
" did it because they couldn't believe it. (Neither could I for that
" matter.)

i still have the '95 emissions readout from my bone-stock '66 rambler:

HC	118PPM
LIMIT	4000

CO	1.80%
LIMIT	4.00

CO2	13.2%
at 0620 rpm

iirc it had about 130k on the 'clock' at the time.
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