I've been driving for over 20 years now, and lived in PA for 10 of them, and here are my reasons for saying its BS
It is inconsistent.
-- My 1 year old 4cyl Accord with 5400 miles on it has to go through emissions testing while the dude rolling coal in his super huge diesel pickup is exempted...
Not offended at all, I agree with you for the most part. Although I would disagree with your assessment on basement usage and that they are only dank places of storage. In my neighborhood, most people have finished their basements and some are as nice as the rest of the house. Home theaters...
I don't really have a preferred brand of sump pump, but I'll throw in my two cents on the battery backup issue...
I have a very shallow sump pit, and after an iced-up pipe caused a backup in the basement (while I was home asleep), I redid the setup to fix the freezing issue and at the same time...