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Terminating the old series metal junk!
Arnold renews junk car buyback program!
Reported By:
TheARNOLDFANS.com Staff
Friday, March 18, 2005
In a setting worthy of a Hollywood film, Schwarzenegger terminated an old piece of metal junk on Wednesday. The Oak moved to
reinstatement a program to take older, polluting vehicles off the road.
With a Sacramento-area auto yard as the backdrop, Schwarzenegger announced the state is again offering $1,000 to car owners
who voluntarily retire older vehicles that cannot meet the state's smog control standards. The goal is to take as many as
15,000 high polluting vehicles off the road annually over the next 10 years.
"This will pay big dividends for California," the governor said at a news conference. "Clean air makes our state a more desirable
place to live, visit or locate a business."
But the governor also noted in his press materials Wednesday that his support of the auto buyback program is just one area in
which he's worked to protect the environment.
He's also called for the creation of a network of hydrogen fuel stations along major California highways. He also signed bills
last year that would allow hybrid vehicles to use freeway car pool lanes; replace old diesel engines in school buses with new
cleaner-burning engines; require cars built after 1975 to have smog checks every two years; and require that trucks coming into
California from Mexico meet U.S. clean air standards.
Ironically, each of the bills he touted were authored by Democrats and passed despite substantial opposition from Schwarzenegger's
Republican colleagues.
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TheARNOLDFANS.com Staff
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