Woohoo!

"deprecated account" (savethei4s) 02/10/2016 at 16:55 • Filed to: None

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It’s getting closer!

citizennick > deprecated account 02/10/2016 at 17:24

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Dammit, everyone needs to sign one apparently.

Future next gen S2000 owner > deprecated account 02/10/2016 at 19:08

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The proposed rule clarification regarding emission equipment on vehicles driven on-track only is deceptive and furthers a law that already exists and works. The intention is to ensure that vehicles driven on public roads retain emission compliant equipment such that they meet emission standards at the time of manufacture. This is already accomplished through the states with annual and biennual emission testing. The real world result of the proposed change will lead to an unnecessary legislative overreach to a problem that does not currently exist. Vehicles used solely for on-track driving aren’t driven on the street. Vehicles with emission defeat devices do drive on the street despite the fact that this is currently illegal. Adding a law to make an illegal activity illegal again is asinine. This shows a clear lack of intelligence by those drafting and supporting this rule. Adding this rule will not change the fact that those who choose to install emissions compliant equipment only for the purposes of a successful emission test will remove the equipment after said test. The EPA won’t know, won’t have to ability to enforce what it doesn’t know, and won’t have the budget to find out what it is willfully ignorant about. The rule exists in a perpetual vacuum of common sense. More importantly, if the end goal is to eliminate the aftermarket industry produced to support grassroots racing, the parts already exist and in sufficient quantities that if this rule were to take effect, the prices of the used equipment would increase exponentially. It would not decrease those who willfully and knowingly subvert current rules and regulations. The EPA has proposed a rule to make an illegal activity illegal, no budget to enforce the new rule, and has zero capability to enforce the rule.

The only conceivable way to enforce the rule would to have local sanctioning bodies inspect participants adding unnecessary regulations and inspection time to a hobby that represents less than a fraction of the pollution from the auto industry on an annual basis. To allow this proposed rule to be buried into a massive legal document with contradictions and intentional obfuscation displays the fact that EPA is only willing to go after groups without the necessary funding to fight ludicrous legislation and have a statistically insignificant impact on the overall pollution produced by the United States. The EPA is failing do the obvious to make hard and necessary reductions to pollution when it is easier to make meaningless rules that will have no measurable impact on pollution.

Fuck stupid rules. I added my two cents.