Good News for Ontario resident E test being scrapped
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Good News for Ontario resident E test being scrapped
Finally!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...tead-1.4842537
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toron...tead-1.4842537
Ontario to scrap Drive Clean emissions test, target heavy-duty vehicles insteadProposed changes will be subject to 30-day public consultation, province says
The Canadian Press · Posted: Sep 28, 2018 11:44 AM ET | Last Updated: an hour ago
Ontario's Progressive Conservative government says the Drive Clean program, which tests emissions every two years on cars and light-duty trucks over seven years old, is outdated and no longer effective. (John Rieti/CBC)Ontario's Drive Clean vehicle emissions testing program will be dismantled next year and replaced with a new system that will focus on heavy-duty vehicles such as transport trucks, the government said Friday.The Progressive Conservative government said the Drive Clean program, which tests emissions every two years on cars and light-duty trucks over seven years old, is outdated and no longer effectiv
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M’eh....I didn’t mind the program. To me, it helped keep some of those old, pollution producing cars off the road. Not sure why thats a bad thing. Didn’t really find it an inconvinience to get my car tested, and it didn’t cost me anything. So actually, why get rid of it?
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The rebuttal, to your statements can be found with a bit of basic research. when the program started in 1999 16% of cars were found to fail the initial test.
The Majority of those cars were fixed at the time and kept on the road.Thee number of cars that were actually scrapped because of pollution issues was minutely small.Today the initial fail rate is reduced to only 5%. of those 5%, only a minor fraction actually have a technical fault that may be causing actual air pollution, with the remainder having simple issues like a loose gas cap or a leaking vacuum hose. Balance this against the amount of gasoline, pollution created and time wasted bby consumers taking their cars for a test just to learn that 95% were perfectly fine as is.
The statement that the tests were free is completely false as the cost are just passed on to the consumer through other means.
The Majority of those cars were fixed at the time and kept on the road.Thee number of cars that were actually scrapped because of pollution issues was minutely small.Today the initial fail rate is reduced to only 5%. of those 5%, only a minor fraction actually have a technical fault that may be causing actual air pollution, with the remainder having simple issues like a loose gas cap or a leaking vacuum hose. Balance this against the amount of gasoline, pollution created and time wasted bby consumers taking their cars for a test just to learn that 95% were perfectly fine as is.
The statement that the tests were free is completely false as the cost are just passed on to the consumer through other means.
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That being said, the stats do not account for the cars fixed before they even took the test, nor the cars that we traded in or scrapped before taking the test. The test results itself cannot be used alone to decide if a program worked. Since implementing drive clean, there have been fewer and fewer smog warning days in Toronto and around the province. Is that solely because of drive clean? No, but that program played a part and helped raise awareness. From a cost perspective, it was not this huge cost albatrose like many government pograms.
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funny though....program has been cancelled, yet my sticker renewal, which just came for a January renewal, is the highest it’s been in years! Wonder where that money is going now?
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