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.
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.