Bay Area Air Quality Management wants me to sell my Tacoma for $1000.00

Disregard! Disregard!... The letter states that this is only voluntary.

Total waste of paper.

 

Nice truck. Exactly what I'd have bought when shopping if I could have found one that didn't cost a kidney transplant.

Do they 'really' scrap them? Or resell them to either other states or ship out of country?

That truck would be worth about 77,000 quetzal to some of my friends. Maybe more.

 

The letter was probably generated during a license plate scan, all 1st gens get the letter. In reality all cars of a certain age get the letter.

 

You're right, Its terrible here. Please spread the word among your people, they seem to think otherwise.

 

Nothing worse than driving behind some piece of crap puking out exhaust. I don’t live in big city but we have all seen pictures where you don’t see the sky for the pollution.
It’s a tough problem to fix.

 

Yep

 

Yep, agree with following nasty ass coal burner sucks, wether is be a diesel jacked up truck or the Prius.

Seriously, these programs don’t solve the freaking problems. Let’s look at this for a minute, those that run those polluting vehicles typically are on the low financial status, the sell their current piece of crap, take the thousand bucks and spend 500 on the the next polluter. Now let’s look at the resources used to scrap these vehicles, the resources used for the program (money wasted for administration), the resources used to make the replacement vehicle. Is the removal of the “pollution” from the old vehicle worth the “pollution” and waste?

 

I love how electric car owners think they are being green by driving a car that is charged by electricity created at a coal plant.

 

I'm not a big tree hugger. But the fact is. With the boom in solar. The electric car now produces less green house gasses to produce, operate and dispose of then a petroleum burning vehicle.

 

Just read an article and in the states only 27 percent of electricity is created using coal.

 

why is anyone arguing over this? who gives a damn. the mention of CA triggers some ppl. lmao. throw the letter away if it is of no interest.

 

Coal is down to 17pct but between coal, natural gas, and petroleum they make up 77.6pct of power generated in the US.

As of 2017 https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/?page=us_energy_home

 

It's a form letter. For a lot of people still driving a 1996 vehicle $1000 would be a bargain. Sorta like the gun buy back programs where they give $100 for a non-working gun.

Even if 100% were generated by coal they wouldn't have to burn anymore coal even if every car in the country were electric. Most electricity is generated in plants where they must generate at full capacity 24/7. They only use 90% or so of that capacity for 3-4 hours/day. The rest of the day well over 50% of what is generated isn't used. Going to all electric vehicles would just take advantage of the unused electricity produced every day anyway.

 

Not if it's charged by the panels on their own roof which shade the attic lessening the need for as much AC. Half of all energy generated is lost in transmission so generating it where it's needed is automatically a huge gain. The skies of London were black with soot in the days of coal fired heating. Most metripolitan area skies have been brown with smog for the last half century(around here it was worse in the 70's than it is now with more than twice the population). Part of progress is figuring out how to feed, house, heat, and transport a constantly growing population without poisoning ourselves. California would look like Beijing if not for the pain in the ass regulations. Nobody likes them but the alternative is worse. Streets used to be full of horse shit. Disease was rampant in cities we now would call towns. Nobody wants to pay what it costs to keep growing but the alternatives are fewer people, more regulation, living in shit, or finding ways to do things that make less shit as a byproduct. Nothing yet made is perfectly innocuous. EV's have the potential to be less of a problem than fossil fueled systems but they won't be a permanent fix since we keep adding more people.

 

What’s the battery and solar disposal going to look like in the near future?

I agree something needs to be done, but let’s not jump from the hot frying pan into the boiling pot of water.

 

But it's CLEAN COAL!

 

Lol, my father in law worked for a company that was creating was to clean coal plants, let’s just say yes the air would be clean, but burying all that shit in the ground should not be the answer either.

 

I know, but I consider my 23yr old Tacoma new.

 

She’s a clean truck for sure. That thing is a extinct animal out by me.

 

True, maybe they are just trolling but they knew my year of my truck and the registration is coming up.