Originally Posted by
AnthrAxNSB
That's kind of harsh, eh? You've actually quoted a news article about the exective orders, and the news article may be mistaken, misleading, or understating the implications. They may simply not know enough. The exective order is ambiguous and written in broad terms. It's unclear whether Florida seeks to implement all of California's emission standards (note that the order references Title 13, which is essentially every California regulation of automobiles), or specifically those still under debate from a 2005 plan. I'm under the impression it's the latter, but I have seen nothing that officially substantiates my belief. In other words, I think you're correct, but I can understand why others would be worried that you're not.
Harsh? No more like straight forward. Doesn't take a genius to read a news article and be able to interpret it. Even if I had a DSM still I wouldn't be worried. That's one of the first things I do is rip out the emissions out of them and what not. Not to mention the many I ran without a cat. To put it in a broad perspective... this is implying to 2009+ vehicles. We are in 2007... 2009 vehicles start being sold in 2008. The vehicles are suppose to be based on California's emissions standards. So at this point it doesn't concern any DSM owner. Let's say they want to implement it for older vehicles... you know how much trouble it would be just to get all vehicle's under California's emissions standards? Yet alone even if that's not the case but they want to do standard emissions testing how long it would take just to set a base and implement it. Were talking years here, not at the end of the year.
When I first read part of the article I jumped into the same conclusion as everyone else just because of the title of this thread. Which I find misleading if you actually take the time to re-read the article thoroughly like I did.
I think people just need to understand how long it takes just to implement emissions within a state. An article releases and look how many rumors and what not arised without taking the time to analyze it. That's where I'm coming from.