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Shows how much you know about cars, FIH.

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Sell it to a non-smog state or part it out — don’t support pigulus programs from Suckramento that encourage more sheepsumerism. (Plus you can get more $ for the car that way.)

Scrapping a car over a $10 turbo seal would be idiotic.

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What’s the benefit of public support for a new stadium? San Diego’s economy it doing OK, and tourism in SD isn’t primary based on obese men jumping each others’ bones with more obese people watching.

If the Chargers want to leave, bring some REAL football to Qualcomm and never look back. Should be enough people in SD of the appropriate ancestry to enjoy that.

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Pffffffft – I’ve owned quite a few cars and motos that were > 20 years old.

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Wet day — condensation? Muffler cooled in 2 minutes allowing water to condense which got blown out. Assuming the muffler was ever warm, since it might have been kept cool by spray or water from the roadways.

Did the smoke smell like oilsmoke?

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Russia: less $ to rebuild their military.
Saudi: less $ to give/lend to Wahhabi-influenced freaks like ISIS and Boko Haram.

This is not a bad thing, other than collateral damage to places like Canada and Trinidad.

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And it fell dramatically a few months later. I seem to recall paying $1.20 per gallon in (late fall of?) 2008.

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Low oil prices are a symptom of a tepid world economy and overproduction, plus an attempt to fuck Russia.

Low oil prices are either deflationary or a symptom of deflation, which is not what the central banker dirt want.

(We also had low oil prices … in 2008/9).

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Why would the city want the team?

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Average age of a car in the US is about 11 years, so they might change hands more often, but they last longer than 10 years. Most people are blithering idiots.

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FIH —
(1) Car production is not a welfare program for union auto workers and auto dealers. If it’s not needed, no need to force people to buy it, especially since making a new car takes a lot of energy. Ending is NOT always better than mending.
(2) We’ve reached a point of diminishing returns as far as gasoline internal combustion tech. Efficiency and emissions wise. Most of the advances were made in the 80s and 90s. The goal should be increased adoption of electric cars. We do that by making gas more expensive and electric car tech cheaper. And by building out longer-distance electric trains combined with Zipcar type programs to provide a “last 30 miles service.” This combination would get around the range limits of electric tech.
(3) Some states are actually scaling back smog testing since their air is clean enough by Federal standards, and edge cases are not worth catching. Or moving to an OBD2 only program and exempting pre-OBD2 cars (cheaper).
(4) I doubt that CA would go with internal combustion cars not being inspected, but rather only phoning home. Too easy to cheat since there’d be no visual.

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Or he just encountered an inspector who wanted to be a dick that day.

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Hence, most places. CA stopped moving the cutoff sometime around y2k.

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Not really — smog has decreased even in non-smog states. Cars get replaced by attrition anyway and post 1990 or so cars all have catalytic converters and electronic fuel injection.

Old, old cars are really an edge case and not subject to smog in most places anyway.

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Or an oil hose and it was leaking on the exhaust. Remember that the aircooled Porsches are actually oil-cooled, which makes for a LOT of oil flow, more so than “normal” car motors.

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