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Car lover and shameful Late Night Host Jay Leno couldn't bribe CA lawmakers let classic cars skip the smog test (calmatters.org)
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Jay Leno’s star power wasn’t enough to persuade a California legislative committee to pass a measure to allow owners of classic cars like him to be exempted from the state’s rigorous smog-check requirements.

The Assembly Appropriations Committee on Friday blocked Bakersfield Republican Sen. Shannon Grove’s Senate Bill 712 from advancing for a full vote. Leno had testified in support of the measure in Sacramento earlier this year.

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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It's not about the cost of a smog test.

It's that classic cars will never pass a modern smog test. They are wildly inefficient, and those inefficiencies manifest in a bunch of wasted gas and bad exhaust.

I think they should probably get a smog tax, like someone else suggested somewhere.

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