Auto emission testing
By Koolhotrod | June 5, 2008
The Anchorage assembly decided to do away with the automobile emission testing program as it's no longer required by the feds since our air is clean. The program was expensive and went beyond just testing for pollution coming out the tail pipe. A vehicle will fail if it has any modifications to the engine. If you put a cleaner burning engine in an older car you would fail the test. Now we have a new assembly and the word is they will reverse the previously assembly vote and keep the emission program.
The bottom line is we don't need it. Our air is now clean and the newer vehicles are putting out fewer emissions then ever. If they want to do something constructive to reduce emissions and help the people save some gas they should require the city traffic engineers to synchronize the traffic signals. There is no reason, if you drive the speed limit, that you should encounter a red light at every other intersection on a main road. That stop and go driving burns a lot of fuel and produces excessive emissions.
