Everyone on the list....please read this. Congress wants ourcars!!!!

[jester@westfailure.net (jester@westfailure.net)]

On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Tobias >< wrote:

> Considering the amount of pre 90's cars in the United States, people's 
> rights and such ...
> 
> hahahahaha
> 
> tell me another story.

from the senate website searching for s1766, section 803 I found the text
pasted below. never underestimate the stupidity of a politician.

I alerady called both my senators and left e-mail or voice mail... cant
hurt anyway, took me 5 minutes & cost nothing.

(btw when they say scrap below they mean crush with no parts sold to
anyone)

*** below is the unaltered text from senate.gov ***

Energy Policy Act of 2002 (Placed on the Calendar in the Senate)

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SEC. 803. ASSISTANCE FOR STATE PROGRAMS TO RETIRE FUEL-INEFFICIENT MOTOR
VEHICLES.

(a) ESTABLISHMENT- The Secretary shall establish a program, to be known as
the `National Motor Vehicle Efficiency Improvement Program,' under which
the Secretary shall provide grants to States to operate programs to offer
owners of passenger automobiles and light-duty trucks manufactured in
model years more than 15 years prior to the fiscal year in which
appropriations are made under subsection (d) to provide financial
incentives to scrap such automobiles and to replace them with automobiles
with higher fuel efficiency.

(b) STATE PLAN- Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of an
appropriations act containing funds authorized under subsection (d), to be
eligible to receive funds under the program, the Governor of a State shall
submit to the Secretary a plan to carry out a program under this subtitle
in that State.

(c) ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA- The Secretary shall approve a State plan and
provide the funds under subsection (d), if the State plan--

(1) requires that all passenger automobiles and light-duty trucks turned
in be scrapped;

(2) requires that all passenger automobiles and light-duty trucks turned
in be currently registered in the State in order to be eligible;

(3) requires that all passenger automobiles and light-duty trucks turned
in be operational at the time that they are turned in;

(4) restricts automobile owners (except not-for-profit organizations) from
turning in more than one passenger automobile and one light-duty truck in
a 12-month period;

(5) provides an appropriate payment to the person recycling the scrapped
passenger
automobile or light-duty truck for each turned-in passenger automobile or
light-duty truck; 


(6) provides a minimum payment to the automobile owner for each passenger
automobile and light-duty truck turned in; and

(7) provides, in addition to the payment under paragraph (6), an
additional credit that may be redeemed by the owner of the turned-in
passenger automobile or light-duty truck at the time of purchase of new
fuel-efficient automobile.

(d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS- There are hereby authorized to be
appropriated to the Secretary to carry out this section such sums as may
be necessary, to remain available until expended.

(e) ALLOCATION FORMULA- The amounts appropriated pursuant to subsection
(d) shall be allocated among the States on the basis of the population of
the States as contained in the most recent reliable census data available
from the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, for all States at
the time that the Secretary needs to compute shares under this subsection.

(f) DEFINITIONS- In this section:

(1) AUTOMOBILE- The term `automobile' has the meaning given such term in
section 32901(3) of title 49, United States Code.

(2) Fuel-efficient automobile-

(A) The term `fuel-efficient automobile' means a passenger automobile or a
light-duty truck that has an average fuel economy greater than the average
fuel economy standard prescribed pursuant to section 32902 of title 49,
United States Code, or other law, applicable to such passenger automobile
or light-duty truck.

(B) The term `average fuel economy' has the meaning given such term in
section 32901(5) of title 49, United States Code.

(C) The term `average fuel economy standard' has the meaning given such
term in section 32901(6) of title 49, United States Code.

(D) The term `fuel economy' has the meaning given such term in section
32901(10) of title 49, United States Code.

(3) LIGHT-DUTY TRUCK- The term `light-duty truck' means an automobile that
is not a passenger automobile. Such term shall include a pickup truck, a
van, or a four-wheel-drive general utility vehicle, as those terms are
defined in section 600.002-85 of title 40, Code of Federal Regulations.

(4) PASSENGER AUTOMOBILE- The term `passenger automobile' has the meaning
given such term by section 32901(16) of title 49, United States Code.

(5) SECRETARY- The term `Secretary' means the Secretary of Energy.

(6) STATE- The term `State' means any of the several States and the
District of Columbia.


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