EPA race car thingy...
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Fear mongering?
Found this The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a clarification in response to claims that it is proposing a ban on converting road vehicles into race cars. The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) issued a statement on Monday indicating its intention to fight an EPA proposal to change the wording to the Clean Air Act as it applies to the installation of aftermarket parts that might circumvent stock emission-control devices. But in a separate statement released to the media today, the EPA said that the proposed change is merely intended to clean up the wording of an existing law: "People may use EPA-certified motor vehicles for competition, but to protect public health from air pollution, the Clean Air Act has – since its inception – specifically prohibited tampering with or defeating the emission control systems on those vehicles," the agency said in its statement. "The proposed regulation that SEMA has commented on does not change this long-standing law, or approach. Instead, the proposed language in the Heavy-Duty Greenhouse Gas rulemaking simply clarifies the distinction between motor vehicles and nonroad vehicles such as dirt bikes and snowmobiles. Unlike motor vehicles – which include cars, light trucks, and highway motorcycles – nonroad vehicles may, under certain circumstances, be modified for use in competitive events in ways that would otherwise be prohibited by the Clean Air Act. "EPA is now reviewing public comments on this proposal." There is no wording in the proposal to outline how the rule might be policed and breaches penalized, and RACER is awaiting additional details regarding what sort of vehicles or circumstances might be eligible for exemption. Current modified-production racing takes place under the existing wording of the rules without any EPA intervention. Even so, the reworded law – if passed – will not go into effect until 2018, and will not be retroactive. Consequently, current race-modified production cars appear unlikely to be affected either way. Now that did come from here... 
http://www.foxsports.com/motor/story/epa-road-car-racecar-conversions-020916 |
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I don't know if I'd go that far... continuing to coal mine is like trying to cod fish the grand banks... bad for everyone involved. I think we all know what happens when we leave environmental protection to the corporate world. History reaks of environmental disasters fronted by corporate "awareness" of the environmental impacts of their actions. Unless we want to go back to Love Canal days... So let's not compare a couple thousand race cars to big world environmental issues.
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You obviously have no idea as to the efficiency and cleanliness of a modern coal fired power generation plant, it's not an antiquated thing, it's an easy to exploit industry due to its roots and the fact that the Sheeple believe every little "fact" they see on Facebook or in the news. Power means nothing if you cannot control it! |
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weird posting thing going on... I'll get it sorted.
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Quoi? Okay listen, yeah, I’m a hypocritical long haired hippy that drives a rally car. Get over it… can’t we at least think about a better way to do things? If you could have a reasonable amount of torx and giddy-up powered by something other than dead dinosaurs in your rally car tomorrow, would you not take it? Or do you work in the Oil and Gas sector, and are a protectionist?
Probably not, I’m not a “coal plant engineer”… but I have actually read good portions of the IPCC reports in the past… Since sometime in the mid 90’s I’ve been involved in some sort of post-secondary “environmental schooling”, with a return to undergraduate work in the late 2000’s for environmental science. It was fun as h$ll being a mature student in a class full of energetic young geos who were "drill drill drill" and hippy vegans who were "solar wind ride my fixie"... . I’ve been through grad school in a forest ecology lab since then, with a bunch of folks working on tooling up forestry for climate change, I do trees, but they do climate. it's gonna suck in Quebec in a few years when half the sugar maple bush is dead and gone... I ain’t no sheep reading Fox news.
I never said modern coal wasn’t efficient, I said we’d be better off to not use it (in a very off handed comment), I’m glad Eastern Canada isn’t relying on the cod fishing industry anymore… imagine the CAN dollar if that was the case! As for using dead dinosaurs to power our world… There is no way around the math, burning a couple million years’ worth of stored solar energy in a couple centuries amounts to opening the oven door in an already hot kitchen. I’m currently living in a place where Glacier retreat is measured in kilometers per generation, and where Grandma used to step of the train onto the Mer de Glace, and now it’s a 20 minute walk down to reach it… So yeah... GO EPA GO!
Do remember I started this thread questioning the legitimacy of some EPA do do ha. Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 02/12/2016 08:02AM by Mad Matt F. |
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