I know some of you folks want to voice your political opinions any way you can but please don't! Our forum is about a lot of topics but politics is not going to be one of them.
Every forum that allows political discussions eventually becomes hateful and divided.
There are many forums that will allow and even encourage political views.
Go vent there and then come back and enjoy a Goblin family because a RED and Blue family will not survive.
Now back to the EPA topic
First off
I do believe folks trying to reverse climate change
need to win.
But,
I don't believe that eliminating the small number of car enthusiasts is going to make a difference.
EPA claims transportation only accounts for 14% of all greenhouse gasses.
There are approximately 1.42 billion vehicles on the road today.
What percentage of these vehicles have had their emission system disabled and how often are they driven?
I doubt that non-emission compliant cars account for even a mile for every ten thousand miles traveled by compliant cars.
That would put car hobbyists at .0014%.
Let's create a list of major greenhouse contributors at the top, such as coal (Also agriculture accounts for a shocking
13-18% of the world’s total greenhouse gas emissions. Most (65%) of the agricultural emissions are
methane and
nitrous oxide, which mostly come from cows) and put the lower contributors at the bottom.
So where do car hobbyists settle in on this list?
The EPA estimates that hour-for-hour, gasoline-powered
lawn mowers produce 11 times as much
pollution as a new
car. According to the EPA, each gas-powered
lawnmower produces as much air
pollution as 43 new automobiles driven 12,000 per year –
lawn care produces 13 billion pounds of toxic
pollutants per year.
It needs to be shown that the EPAs car hobbyists' emissions policing efforts are insignificant in helping climate change. That their efforts would be better spent elsewhere. Maybe creating a law that requires catalytic convertors to be installed on cows.
So, we are going to give money and support where we can and hope this does not get out of control. The best thing most of us can do is support the folks who are already pushing back.
PFI Speed has a "go fund me" page. He could probably use some help. I don't know him and don't follow him but I don't think he should have been fined.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/pfispeed-the-fight
I hope SEMA can amass the power needed to sway the EPA away from the performance industry.
I do think they are our best hope.
SEMA STATEMENT ON THE STATUS OF THE RECOGNIZING THE PROTECTION OF MOTORSPORTS (RPM) ACT DIAMOND BAR, Calif. (Dec. 22, 2022) – SEMA and PRI must share that despite strong Congressional backing and extraordinary support from the racing community, the 2021-2022 Congressional session is ending...
www.sema.org
