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Emissions Test Plan Hopelessly Flawed

Yeah, this is not a good idea. 

The car repair shops that would perform emissions tests under a revised state program would not be paid for performing the tests, meaning the only way they could recover their costs would be from increased business.

That arrangement raises new conflict-of-interest questions for the repair shops, said garage owners who won’t be offering the tests.

“People are going to say, ‘How do I know you’re not going to rip me off?’ ” said Larry Gaffney, owner of Larry’s Auto Clinic in Milwaukee.

Gaffney said he was approached about doing the tests, but wasn’t interested because his shop is already plenty busy. He would not have been paid to do the tests, he said.

Posted by Owen at 1033 hrs
Politics + Politics - Wisconsin

1. Why can’t the garages charge the customers for the tests?

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 09, 2008 at 1432 hrs
   
   
   

2. Because the government weenies who are managing the program have no clue how business works.

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 09, 2008 at 1737 hrs
   
   
   

3. I’ve lived in 3 states where I’ve had to had emission tests done. One did it this way but with a fee for the test—and it was pretty common that you knew who in town would pass you no matter what.

   ‘Course nothing beat living in SoCal. If you drove an old enough car there were no specs to meet, so a bunch of us just kept rebuilding old cars and running them through the testing station often enough that we became fairly well known by them. They liked the selection we drove through, and I think it made it more fun for them to try and figure out just what the emission spec for a ‘62 MGB really was,

   Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on August 10, 2008 at 0025 hrs
   
   
   

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