The smog is not only making folks irritable but it will soon cost every vehicle owner in the San Joaquin Valley $12 a year.Air pollution officials reported excessive heat, stagnant air and vehicle exhaust combined Wednesday to push the San Joaquin Valley over the federal smog limit for the first time this year. The bad news comes on the heels of San Joaquin Valley setting a clean air record in August by going the entire month without exceeding critical ozone levels.The federal government last year imposed a $29 million annual fine on the valley for failing to meet air quality standards established in the Clean Air Act.The fine will expire in several years if there are no more air quality violations at any monitoring stations in the valley. If the overall number exceeds three this year or next then the annual fine wil be extended through at least 2013.Clovis is already at three violations since 2010.Manteca Councilman John Harris was critical of the annual fine and the pending $12 assessment per vehicle to pay that fine.“I would be comfortable with it (the fee) if there was a guarantee it would go to improve air quality but if all the fee is going to do is go to the (federal government’s) general fund, and then I have a problem.”