The Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is expecting to collect $180,000 in fees for vehicle emissions testing in Canyon County, which is expected to start June 1. That money would go to help run the program, which will require about 20 vans to run the emissions test. Each vehicle could see a fee of up to $20 for a test that would be required every other year.
The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee (JFAC) Wednesday approved the $180,000 in spending authority for emissions testing. It’s part of a DEQ effort to increase air quality in the Treasure Valley by reducing the amount of ground-level or “bad” ozone. Neighboring Ada County currently has vehicle emissions testing. According to the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), about half of all bad ozone comes from motor vehicles.
Canyon County commissioners have said they won’t comply with the emissions testing for county vehicles, calling the refusal to submit to testing an act of civil disobedience. Rep. Steve Kren, R-Nampa, tried to pass legislation that would have stopped the Canyon County testing, but that effort was rejected by a House committee Feb. 24.
This doesn’t make cents. $180,000 would buy 20 vans @ $9,000 each–not likely. Add in the cost of people to run them,one supervisor for every two employees, office space and we have another instant boondogle which we will never be able to get rid of. Maybe some people need potatoes in their tailpipe!!!
Global warming is a hoax and a lie! DEQ are con-artists who need to be voted OUT! I shall never support any idiot stupid enough to beleive in this stupid lie! And if I have to buy a car that’s 100 years old to avoid giving tribute to these numbskulls I will! Rest bassured what they are doing is illegal! IF THE COUNTY WANTS TO FOLLOW THE CONSTITUTION THEN THEY SHOULD OFFER THE SERVICE FREE OF CHARGE! DON’T YOU FIND IT STRANGE THAT LIBERAL-LEECHES WANT EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN TO BE FREE EXCEPT THEIR OWN USELESS, MADE UP, AND POINTLESS RULES AND SERVICES!!
We should elect people who will put a ban on the government and all of it’s branches especially these left-wing eco-nuts! Most of them are rich, are bigots, and oppessive to the poor(whixch now includes most of the country! I don’t normally mind the rich If they earned their money, but these elitist blood-sucking lay-abouts stole the money from America’s private sector! They didn’t earn it!! They are all tax-cheats, and swindlers! Let us as Americans unite and drive every last one of these I.V. League slouches from office!! Step-one to saving the planet??? Lock-up the environmentalist wackos!!!