EPA To Prohibit the Conversion of Street Cars into Race Cars

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by John Dinkel

How many of the wizzards at EPA even own or know how to drive a car?

Doesn't matter John. We're just required to bend to their will. So far I've only heard one Pres. candidate talk about reeling in these rogue parts of govt.

[Mike Pearson]

NHRA as the leading sanctioning body in drag racing should be leading this battle on the drag racing front. SEMA will be leading it for the high performance manufacturing industry. They should have the credibility to get the right people involved to get a stop to this issue. If this passes that would be the end of our sport.

[SSGT Mustang]

Here is a link to senate and house congressional committees:

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/committees/

Contact everyone you can in government about this insane "issue."

[jim powers]

no wonder the EPA - FEMA and others bought so much ammunition over the last few years, looks like they will need it

[Carguy49]

Originally Posted by Mike Pearson

NHRA as the leading sanctioning body in drag racing should be leading this battle on the drag racing front. SEMA will be leading it for the high performance manufacturing industry. They should have the credibility to get the right people involved to get a stop to this issue. If this passes that would be the end of our sport.

Good point. If Mr. Clifford wants to help the sportsman racer - this would be a great place for NHRA to start.

[Mark Yacavone]

For some of my "lifelong Democrat" friends on Facebook who also love race cars... Please note from which direction these attacks on your liberty usually come from.

[Dwight Southerland]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

When the EPA manufactured its own definition of "navigable waters" to turn your backyard into an EPA-regulated "wetlands" if there was a puddle there, nobody noticed and nobody cared. Now there's this.

A government big enough and powerful enough to do things you want is big and powerful enough to do things you don't want. This is what big government progressives have wrought - both R's and D's. It's well past time to WAKE UP. This is why politics, principles and returning to a constitutionally-limited government matter. This is why it matters to fight for what's right, even when you're not part of an afflicted group. As drag racers, we are a minority segment of the population. Voters weren't there to fight all of the other government overreach and abuse, so who do we think is going to fight for *us*?

Great example. Michael. I work as a special consultant to the Commissioner of State Lands for the state of Arkansas and the biggest issue we are dealing with now is the overreach of federal control over land and waterways that belong to the people of the state of Arkansas by federal law and the constitution. And the overreach is done with the swipe of a pen by people in charge of agencies that have no accountability, no checks or balances and nobody to watch over them with authority to stop or even question what they do. The EPA declared 156 miles of waterways in Arkansas environmentally challenged last year because of a couple of supposedly "threatened" freshwater mussel species that live there. However, a study only three years ago by the biology department of the University of Arkansas declared the population of the very mollusks claimed by the EPA as larger and healthier than at any time in the past 100 years. After a year of doggedly chasing the source of the ruling by the EPA, we have not been able to even find out where the ruling was started or anyone who claims responsibility much less find any substantiating study that supports the judgment. It's as though somebody just decided that the federal government wanted to grab control and made it up. Look up an initiative called "Waters of the United States" (WOTUS). It sounds benign and well meaning for the sake of clean water for the population, but the outcome will be federal control of every puddle of water that is sustained for over two days. That means that the standing water in your yard after a heavy rain comes under the control of the US Government.


I apologize for the rant, but they will be insidious when it comes to taking away our rights to race. They won't touch NASCAR or the pro levels of drag racing (businesses big enough to pay substantial taxes) but they will destroy local dirt track racing and most local drag racing.

[Michael Compton]

I just sent emails to my senators and representatives on this topic. This is beyond ridiculous. I cannot even fathom how these people think. I will continue fighting this topic for sure.

[Curt Rees]

Almost 31,000 have signed the petition, if you have not, please do so! That is a pretty good turnout for being up for only one day.

#5457

Curt Rees

[SSGT Mustang]

It made the press, just not the mainstream "press"....

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2016/...s/?intcmp=hpff