EPA Drops the New Law Affecting Race Cars

[SSDiv6]

Great news!
Due to pressure from the people, industry and congress, the EPA dropped the new law!

http://www.abc-7.com/story/31738562/...ting-race-cars

[Mike Fuller]

Great News!

[older racer]

I just got an email from sema , yes it's been dropped, they still consider it illegal to do it, sema says that has to be erased, race cars are to be left alone!! it's not over yet. the head of EPA doesn't want to admit defeat it seems .

[Mark Yacavone]

I see that the scientists at AP have proven that there are climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions from medium- and heavy-duty engines .

[goinbroke2]

Yeah, not sure why they don't just come out and say what they really mean/stand for? They want the fossil fuel industry stopped, period. Actually "fossil fuel", that's kind of funny too, because scientist "proved" it was a "non renewable" source because all the dino's are gone...and then many years later it was proved that oil doesn't come from decomposing dino's....funny how the "scientists" can prove anything (with funding from the Gov) and then disprove it years later (with funding from the Gov)...starting to see a trend here...lol

How come they haven't proven sea-container ships (that have proven to pollute more in a year than auto industry in a decade) require some type of emission equipment? How come they can run bunker sea oil while at sea (where people don't see the smoke/pollution) and when they get near land they switch to lighter, cleaner burning oils? Why don't they have to burn 10% alcohol or burn "cleaner" fuels?

[FireSale]

Originally Posted by goinbroke2

Yeah, not sure why they don't just come out and say what they really mean/stand for? They want the fossil fuel industry stopped, period. Actually "fossil fuel", that's kind of funny too, because scientist "proved" it was a "non renewable" source because all the dino's are gone...and then many years later it was proved that oil doesn't come from decomposing dino's....funny how the "scientists" can prove anything (with funding from the Gov) and then disprove it years later (with funding from the Gov)...starting to see a trend here...lol

How come they haven't proven sea-container ships (that have proven to pollute more in a year than auto industry in a decade) require some type of emission equipment? How come they can run bunker sea oil while at sea (where people don't see the smoke/pollution) and when they get near land they switch to lighter, cleaner burning oils? Why don't they have to burn 10% alcohol or burn "cleaner" fuels?

I won't comment on your science stuff, but the tankers and container ships operate in International waters and aren't subject to EPA regulations. Why do you think none of them are US flagged?

Oil is non renewable because it takes millions of years for it to be formed from organic material.

I street a non compliant car, but I'm not on anyone's side. My beef was that the EPA put this regulatory proposal in thousands of pages of documentation regarding heavy trucks and equipment.

Dale

[MR DERBY CITY]

Next, all the EPA guys start showing up at Rod Runs and put the heat on the classics....We dodged a bullet this time guys.....

[Run to Rund]

For decades the EPA demanded more complete combustion to prevent formation of "priority pollutants" in exhaust. Then they decided that the product of complete combustion, carbon dioxide, was bad. Forrest Gump would be a genius among the ultra greenies.

[CMcAllister]

Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY

Next, all the EPA guys start showing up at Rod Runs and put the heat on the classics....We dodged a bullet this time guys.....

As I read it, this affects only vehicles converted for off-road use only. If you have anything with tags, driven on the street, built after '67 or '68 and it's not dead nuts stock and unaltered, you may not be a part of this reprieve. It remains to be seen.