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.
Imagine being rich and famous and this is your political cause. What an effing creep.
So do camp fires, gas stoves, candles, light aviation, pleasure boats, etc. I can respect your position as consistent if you feel that nothing should ever be burned unless accidental or absolutely required to save human life, and we can agree to disagree. It is my opinion that smoke from wood fires is a greater irritant than the passing of a classic car on a Sunday morning.
Camp fires, gas stoves and candles don’t pollute nearly as much as cars do. By all means, fuck aviation and pleasure boats too. The problem is that you’re trying to pretend classic cars are somehow a different category from other cars to make it seem like they’re not part of the problem. Should we also get an exception for pink cars? I bet those pollute even less.
They are different though, because they aren’t used every day for commuting and for deliveries. In the same way a camp fire is ok because we aren’t producing our electricity from burning wood and we also aren’t relying on it every day for heat.
It’s not that classic cars don’t contribute to the total amount of pollution (as well as GHG), it’s that the amount they contribute is far outweighed by many other sources of emissions. There are many choices we make each day which result in higher emissions than strictly necessary. I assume you do not live in a lean to built from dead sticks and eat only native scavenged plants while walking everywhere wearing clothes you have fashioned yourself from native plant sources.
No, you have decided to live in a comfortable home consisting of an excess of materials many of which were imported while typing out your responses on an imported device built from mined metals and hydrocarbons.