Actually, it is more likely that your tax dollars are
hard at work.  Instead of paying $1.00/mo to pay for
your air, you most likely pay $5.00 in taxes to fund
all the government enforcement to a new bill....

--- "Joe L." <mejoe100@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:
>         If air and water have been free for NINE
> MONTHS and there are still people
> who do not know about it I submit that a 20 foot
> neon sign with blasting 6
> foot speakers placed 2 feet from their front doors
> will not make them aware
> of the fact.
>         BTW: You still dont have free air and water.
> The cost of these things have
> been added to other products and collected from the
> customer indirectly
> instead of directly.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List
> [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> Of Ari Ollikainen
> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 6:00 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: SUV Roll Overs = Death Patch = lack of
> free air?
>
>
> At 1:26 PM -0700 9/17/00, Chuck & Lillian wrote:
> >I strongly agree!  Free air is also rare to
> nonexistant in the So Calif
> >area.  I was about to email my congressman to
> suggest that in their
> >debates over the Firestone fiasco that they take
> this opportunity to
> >mandate free air for everyone.  I suggest that
> everyone else write
> >their C-people. Maybe we can help save a couple of
> lives.
>
>         Air and water is FREE to service station
> customers in California
>         as of 1/1/00.
>
>         You might want to draw the attention of the
> service station
>         operators you frequent in Southern
> California to the provisions
>         of Section 13651 of the Business and
> Professions Code, relating
>         to service stations...as in the following:
>
>     AB 531, Soto.  Service stations.
>     (1) Existing law requires every service station
> in this state to
> provide, during operating hours, water, compressed
> air, and a gauge
> for measuring air pressure, to the public for use in
> servicing any
> passenger or commercial vehicle, as defined.
> Existing law provides
> that the failure of an owner or manager of a service
> station to have
> adequate water and air facilities for use by the
> public for 5
> consecutive working days constitutes a rebuttable
> presumption that
> the owner or manager has intentionally violated
> these provisions.  An
> intentional violation of these provisions is an
> infraction
> punishable by a fine not to exceed $50 per day.
>     This bill would require that these air and water
> services be made
> available at no cost to customers who purchase motor
> vehicle fuel, as
> defined.  The bill would require service stations to
> place and
> maintain a specified sign regarding these services.
>     The bill would create a specified enforcement
> system by which
> consumers may report complaints via a toll-free
> customer complaint
> telephone number to the Division of Measurement
> Standards.  The bill
> would provide that upon inspection, or upon notice
> of a complaint,
> employees of the division would be empowered to
> investigate
> complaints and issue citations, punishable by a fine
> of $250 per
> valid complaint,  unless the citation is challenged
> in court.  The
> issuance of a citation would be precluded if the air
> and water
> equipment is in good working order upon initial
> inspection, or if the
> air and water equipment is repaired to the
> satisfaction of the
> inspecting entity within 10 working days of that
> initial inspection.
> The bill would also exempt from the issuance of a
> citation air and
> water equipment that is the target of repeated
> vandalism, as
> specified.
>
>
> THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS
> FOLLOWS:
>
>    SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares
> that air and water
> are essential to the safe operation of motor
> vehicles, and therefore
> public safety requires that free air and water be
> accessible at all
> service stations.
>    SEC. 2.  Section 13651 of the Business and
> Professions Code is
> amended to read:
>     13651.  (a) (1) On and after January 1, 2000,
> every service
> station in this state shall provide, during
> operating hours, and make
> available at no cost to customers who purchase motor
> vehicle fuel,
> water, compressed air, and a gauge for measuring air
> pressure, to the
> public for use in servicing any passenger vehicle,
> as defined in
> Section 465 of the Vehicle Code, or any commercial
> vehicle, as
> defined in Section 260 of the Vehicle Code, with an
> unladen weight of
> 6,000 pounds or less.
>     (2) Every service station in this state shall
> display, at a
> conspicuous place on, at, or near the dispensing
> apparatus, at least
> one clearly visible sign which shall read as
> follows:  "CALIFORNIA
> LAW REQUIRES THIS STATION TO PROVIDE FREE AIR AND
> WATER FOR
> AUTOMOTIVE PURPOSES TO ITS CUSTOMERS WHO PURCHASE
> MOTOR VEHICLE FUEL.
>    IF YOU HAVE A COMPLAINT NOTIFY THE STATION
> ATTENDANT AND/OR CALL
> THIS TOLL-FREE TELEPHONE NUMBER:  1 (800) ___ ____."
> This sign shall
> meet the requirements of Sections 13473 and 13474
> with regard to
> letter size and contrast.  As used in this
> paragraph, automotive
> purposes does not include the washing of vehicles.

=====
Mark
Just because you have an opinion, doesn't mean that anyone wants to hear it

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