Should old cars & trucks that pollute be put off the road ?

Answer to Q1 Yes. The basic reason behind high pollution rates observed in old cars and trucks is the improper usage of fuel due to old technology. This leads to lower fuel efficiency as well. Thus it turns out to be a multi-faced problem. 1. The people suffer due to emissive pollutants. 2. The owner suffers due to low fuel efficiency. 3. The country suffers due to resulting cumulative shortage of fossil fuels namely in this case it being petrol / diseal / gasoline. But then how to implement it? Who'll bell the cat? Heres a feasible solution from my point of view. It is not feasible from the owners point of view especially if it is a "commercial-purpose" vehicle. The owner may lack capital to buy a new vehicle. In such cases, the government should buy these vehicles at comparitively higher rates than what the scrap dealers offer ... reusing certain parts which have no problem ... thus resulting in better value ... and scrapping the rest. If the process is made immune from economic burden like taxes ... it'll prove as a supporting measure. Also loans at reasonable rates should be made available so that the owner is encouraged to switch to a newer vehicle. NOTE: Above "special" priviledges should be provided to ONLY "commercial" vehicles and that too considering the financial status of the owner. Answer to Q2 NO. All countries cannot afford to follow same emmission standards. Developed nations have already passed hrough the budding industrial-stage with their infrastuctures and markets being well established. Hence low margine profit trade is possible for them. Hence the pollution norms must be made stringent for their establishments. On contrary, the 3rd World nations are just entering the phase of industrialization where-in they already have an uphill task of facing the developed industrial giants. They do not even have access to such high level , low polluting technology. If forced they'll have to borrow it from the giants ... and that too at a price. How can they aspire to grow in such a tilted competetion where the balance on there side is weightless?? Hence the pollution norms must be softened for them in the initial period. By the way, the topic is really nice and I hope it gets a great response.

It is possible to put off them and there are several laws that help you if you want to buy a new car with economic incentives

I think that over time, all countries should monitor the amount of pollution that is dumped into the air, and checking the emissions that come from cars is a good start. But it also costs a great deal of money to start this, and for some countries, this can be a problem, but it is something that must be done. Also monitoring the amount of pollution that comes from other industries must be monitored as well. So the question is, do we start with checking the industrial companies, or do we start with cars? Where I live, every few years, we have to bring our cars to a state run agency to check on the amount of emmissions that our cars are producing. So far, all of the vehicles that I have owned, have passed the tests given. If a car or small truck doesn't pass, you are given a chance to have the car repaired and retested. This could be as simple as having the vehicle tuned up, to something more costly, but this is a start. Years ago the government also went to a lot of the companies that create pollution, and forced them to put in filtration systems to clean up the emissions that they produced. But all of this takes time, money, and resources. But our government started with the companies first, then to the vehicles that are on the road.

yeah i agree with you there are many cars that are polluting way too much and they need to be stopped very old vehicles have to be stopped the price we are paying is way too much

no they should not.cars have gotton so hitech you cant even change sparkpulgs in them anymore.an what about thats all someone can afford??????/if we take them off road then everyone will have to pay way to much for there cars