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The new ARB regulations are not realistic or affordable. Last year
I purchased a new machine that was delivered in March of 2006,
when I tried to register it, my application was returned as
unacceptable because of new regulations starting Jan. 1st 2006. I
had to pay two registration fees for one machine and go through
hell and back to get my application processed. If the new
regulations are anything like that one there won't be any old
machines accepted and very few new ones, at a very high price. The
cost of doing business in this great state is already through the
roof. Consumers already baulk at current rates due to insurance
cost, and fuel prices. If we are expected to pass the cost along
to cunsumers there will be considerably less consumers which means
less contractors to service them. I think that I would rather sell
my diesel powered machines and replace them with older, less
productive, more pollutant gasoline powered equipment to save cost
and stay out of the new regulations.