EPA To Prohibit the Conversion of Street Cars into Race Cars

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Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland

The point is that how can this be a society based on the sovereignty of its citizens when its government is in control of what you can and cannot do? Do not believe that these regulations are the result of a representative decision; they are the acts of a select group who want to impose values and world view on everyone else for the purpose of control by punitive action. Our government's role as stated by the constitution is to protect our liberties, not ban things from our lives.

This is all true. The gist of my point is that rules have no teeth without enforcement. This is why gun control has and will continue to fail. They can ban the manufacture of high capacity magazines but they can't stop the flow of the existing ones around the country without a massive expense in enforcement. Politicians are great at talk but not good at digging up the money to fund what they propose.

The Federal Government has, in the past, banned liquor, so people made their own. The Government lacked the resources to enforce the law and this will happen on the emissions thing, too.

I live in Washington State where the State legislature, by a vote of the people, legalized the sale, taxation and recreational use of marijuana. This is still a Federal crime and the FBI and DEA don't need a nod from the Obama Administration to start busting the dozens of State licensed drug dealers because it's already on the books. Since the State taxes the sale of pot and puts the money in the General Fund, I guess the feds could arrest all of the Legislators as drug dealers in an ongoing criminal enterprise. It would be a dirty, expensive, politically (on the grass roots level) unpopular endeavor.

This EPA thing has already been passed by the House and Senate, so we need to find out how our Representatives voted on it and send them home the next chance we get.

Clean air and water are good things. Stopping the conversion of heavy trucks to non emissions engines is a good idea.

Stopping the sale of aftermarket parts not emissions certified won't happen because it would have too much of an economic impact. Jegs, Summit, Holley and the long list that sticker the sides of our cars would be out of business.

Getting non certified limited use classics off the road would kill the auction business. What's Barrett-Jackson worth?

This has passed and will probably be signed by the President but won't be enforced on a level that affects drag racing.

Excuse me for not hitting the panic button.

Dale