I wish I was only kidding, but it sounds like a sure thing according to the tech. He figures that it will take an additional 20 minutes, so he is going to charge another $22 to smog, his rate will be about $68/smog plus certificate, if it takes longer he is going to have to hire another tech so it can be done while conducting the emmision test. If he has to go this route he will charge $90-100 plus certificate. It will be interesting to see how things go in November once testing starts.

It doesn't seem that likely that that the amount of fuel escaping durring the return is as much a problem as the pollutants comming out the exhaust rfrom the older vehicles. According to the tech, along with this new test, they have permanently smog exempted all cars from '75 back, and all cars from '76 on become exemp when they become 30yrs old providing the owner carries collector car insurance on it.

This is just another bonehead move by the legislature to give the appearance that they are doing something while achieving nothing to reduce emmisions. The state emmision standard for new vehicles hasn't been changed since since '93, if they would have reduced the limits for new vehicles they could leave the older ones alone with the original test.