California looking to restrict driving of classic cars

[deathsled]

Though I did not author the article, I present it here as it might affect some of you and in the end, all of us.
https://autos.yahoo.com/autos/report-california-looking-restrict-travel-120000026.html

[crossboss]

Gruesome Newsom's perfect utopia. All law abiding, tax paying citizens are fleeing Kommifornia. Let all the whack jobs, illegals, criminals, homeless drug addicts stay. Great job Governor. Another reason not to stay...

[deathsled]

Gruesome Newsom is a good one.  Never heard that before.  Classic car owners are the least offensive of anyone out there vis a vis spewing exhaust.  Our cars don't get driven but a few hundred to maybe a couple thousand miles per year.  And there are so few of them.  Hardly chronic offenders.  Maybe banish all the fossil plants that burn coal there to generate electricity for EVs as well?  The only way to fight these creeps is to continually challenge the laws and appeal appeal appeal.  All the way to the Supreme Court of the US if necessary.  But then even when their statute is struck down as unconstitutional they merely pass more legislation with slightly different verbiage.  I still like the State of California in terms of topography and the car culture and some of the people who are "rad and totally chill" so maybe a good solution would be to have an IQ requirement.  You have to be a certain level in order to stay.  Make it like 110 to keep the smarties there and remove the dregs.  But where to put the dregs? 

[crossboss]

Gruesome Newsom is a good one.  Never heard that before.  Classic car owners are the least offensive of anyone out there vis a vis spewing exhaust.  Our cars don't get driven but a few hundred to maybe a couple thousand miles per year.  And there are so few of them.  Hardly chronic offenders.  Maybe banish all the fossil plants that burn coal there to generate electricity for EVs as well?  The only way to fight these creeps is to continually challenge the laws and appeal appeal appeal.  All the way to the Supreme Court of the US if necessary.  But then even when their statute is struck down as unconstitutional they merely pass more legislation with slightly different verbiage.  I still like the State of California in terms of topography and the car culture and some of the people who are "rad and totally chill" so maybe a good solution would be to have an IQ requirement.  You have to be a certain level in order to stay.  Make it like 110 to keep the smarties there and remove the dregs.  But where to put the dregs?

Well,
This 'rad and totally chill' Californian got the hell out of there in 2015. California is lost forever. Its the poster child state for all that's wrong...

[deathsled]

Sorry to read it. I was there in 1994 to pick up a special red car. Place was beautiful buy then I was only visiting.

[tesgt350]

Gruesome Newsom's perfect utopia. All law abiding, tax paying citizens are fleeing Kommifornia. Let all the whack jobs, illegals, criminals, homeless drug addicts stay. Great job Governor. Another reason not to stay...

Another Reason not to even VISIT.

[OldGuy]

Gruesome Newsom's perfect utopia. All law abiding, tax paying citizens are fleeing Kommifornia. Let all the whack jobs, illegals, criminals, homeless drug addicts stay. Great job Governor. Another reason not to stay...

Another Reason not to even VISIT.

Just think, 'ole Gruesome is in line for POTUS! I'll bet that the line forms for 2024.

[shelbydoug]

It's overpopulated anyway now. There are better places to be maybe?

[98SVT - was 06GT]

This all stems from when Schumer proposed a tax on classic cars. .gov has been working overtime to increase revenue streams. There will not be "no go" zones since our Constitution allows for free travel instead there will be a toll to drive your dirty old gas burner in "green areas" - you know places where only coal produced electricity is in use.
Link to car tax article in NY Times
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/04/07/nyregion/07-cityroom-times-spoof.html

Hemmings proposed clean air Shelby

[shelbydoug]

This all stems from when Schumer proposed a tax on classic cars. .gov has been working overtime to increase revenue streams. There will not be "no go" zones since our Constitution allows for free travel instead there will be a toll to drive your dirty old gas burner in "green areas" - you know places where only coal produced electricity is in use.
Link to car tax article in NY Times
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/04/07/nyregion/07-cityroom-times-spoof.html

Hemmings proposed clean air Shelby

That didn't go far. He responded that he "understood the Classic Car Industry" and that he once owned a 1971 Dodge Dart.

Of my three cars, one has 22,000 mile, one 32,000 and another 34,000. A '67, a '68 and a '73.

You can calculate the amount of pollutants they have contributed to global warming. From a scientific perspective the Big Mac's I've eaten have contributed more. That part isn't even an argument.

It's unlikely a bill like this would ever pass. That is why it is important to vote for representatives that support your views.

Unfortunately the US has a track record of voter turn outs of around 50%. Likely the biggest complainers don't even vote on the subjects. I heard one interviewed that said she never voted. To make her vote would violate her civil rights? Interesting yet disturbing perspective to me.

[TOBKOB]

My thoughts on the situation, if you didn't vote or you voted for the current people in charge  "quiturbitchen"...    

TOB

[98SVT - was 06GT]

This all stems from when Schumer proposed a tax on classic cars.

That didn't go far. He responded that he "understood the Classic Car Industry" and that he once owned a 1971 Dodge Dart.

Ahhh Grasshopper - GOTCHA. That article and NY Times page was Rick Kopec's April Fools joke that year. It went like a bonfire world wide and ever since he hasn't produced another 4-1 blast - how do you top perfection.

[shelbydoug]

This all stems from when Schumer proposed a tax on classic cars.

That didn't go far. He responded that he "understood the Classic Car Industry" and that he once owned a 1971 Dodge Dart.

Ahhh Grasshopper - GOTCHA. That article and NY Times page was Rick Kopec's April Fools joke that year. It went like a bonfire world wide and ever since he hasn't produced another 4-1 blast - how do you top perfection.

Perhaps his joke but the joke was on him because it HAD been talked about.

You can say a lot of things about Shumer. Some of them actually good but one thing is he wasn't and still isn't suicidal. He could never outrun us in that 71 Dart.

[Kent]

this one is maybe a bit better
https://www.hemmings.com/stories/californias-stance-on-classic-cars/

[FL SAAC]

" California car culture already isn't what it used to be. However, moves like this could accelerate the current trajectory. "

Also they want to pass into law a tax on how many miles a person drives in California.