jsanders
If I Only had a Brain
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Well for the last year I tried to change some of the laws in Virginia; by breaking them.
Finally I gave up and got into compliance. I guess I just got tired of putting my money where my mouth was. (It left a rotten taste).
This is one of the reasons Americans don’t like much in the way of interference from Washington.
The Federal Government in order to form a more perfect union, elected to pass laws requiring the states to use the on board computers to monitor emissions from vehicles. For the longest time we (Virginia) used a system of actually measuring emissions output with machines designed to sample the exhaust to make determinations.
The new system, whereas on the surface it would appear to be superior, has several blatant flaws. The first is that it breaks US expostfacto laws. The second is that it turns out not to be reliable. My Chevy Astro Van checked out in perfect order while connected to 2 separate diagnostic computers but failed to communicate with the ones authorized by the state to perform emissions inspections.
The court’s positions was that I would have to be responsible for making it comply or stop driving it. After almost one year of fighting this; when today, the judge said “case dismissed” I simply said thank you mamn and walked out.
What a wimp, I found a third test center and they were able to hook up and make the test, which proved that all along I had been correct, but I couldn’t bring myself to mention it at court today, so someone else will have to continue the fight.
Finally I gave up and got into compliance. I guess I just got tired of putting my money where my mouth was. (It left a rotten taste).
This is one of the reasons Americans don’t like much in the way of interference from Washington.
The Federal Government in order to form a more perfect union, elected to pass laws requiring the states to use the on board computers to monitor emissions from vehicles. For the longest time we (Virginia) used a system of actually measuring emissions output with machines designed to sample the exhaust to make determinations.
The new system, whereas on the surface it would appear to be superior, has several blatant flaws. The first is that it breaks US expostfacto laws. The second is that it turns out not to be reliable. My Chevy Astro Van checked out in perfect order while connected to 2 separate diagnostic computers but failed to communicate with the ones authorized by the state to perform emissions inspections.
The court’s positions was that I would have to be responsible for making it comply or stop driving it. After almost one year of fighting this; when today, the judge said “case dismissed” I simply said thank you mamn and walked out.
What a wimp, I found a third test center and they were able to hook up and make the test, which proved that all along I had been correct, but I couldn’t bring myself to mention it at court today, so someone else will have to continue the fight.