Posted on 09/09/2009 7:26:38 AM PDT by wrrock
EPA will also pursue a ban on the manufacture and distribution of lead tire weights in response to a 2009 petition from the Ecology Center, the Sierra Club and other NGOs requesting that the agency establish regulations prohibiting the manufacture, processing, and distribution of lead tire weights.
We need those weights to make sinkers!
The EPA prohibits the manufacturing, processing and distribution of lead tire weights but lead weights for fishing is OK? How about cigarettes? Aren’t they more dangerous to ones health than lead tire weights? The list could go on and on...
They can be cast into bullets.
We need the lead to make bullets.
Never mind.
Will styrofoam be OK?
This is actually an anti-gun move and has nothing to do with health or the environment. If lead is bad in wheel weights, then it must also be bad in bullets. This turns a $10 box of ammo into a $30 box of ammo. It also makes rimfire ammunition a technical impossibility, thus keeping kids from learning to shoot. The goal is to make firearms ownership too expensive for the Great Unwashed. The dirty little secret is that metallic lead isn’t toxic; lead compounds are.
great post
I believe you’re spot on
Good...I’m going to start by removing them from the cars owned and operated by enviro-wackos first....hope they enjoy the ride.
Sinkers !!! The lead tire weights make the best bullets !!
It’s soft tyranny becoming hard tyranny. The EPA has in effect “Legislated” that lead tire weights are now illegal. They have created a “law” so to speak.
This country is on the fast track to Banana Republic status.
SZ
Lead weights for fishing are already banned in some areas. And please don’t make that list public, they will target any thing they haven’t thought of themselves.
“We need those weights to make sinkers!”
We need to make lead shot to kill loons - very tasty.
Shhhhhh!!!
Wouldn’t styrofoam tire weights be awfully big? How about gold?
Obviously they’ve done a cost-benefit analysis weighing the number of motorists who will be killed by unbalanced tires versus .0002% of the duck population succumbing to lead poisoning and are coming down on the side of the latter
“As both EPA Administrator and as a mother, my highest priority is protecting our children from environmental threats in the places where they live, play and learn."
My parents taught me not to play in traffic.
“...From my cold, dead rims...”
The EPA has in effect “Legislated” that lead tire weights are now illegal. They have created a “law” so to speak.”
And they’ll get away with it.
Runny eggs will be next.
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If lead in tire weights is bad, then mercury in lightbulbs also needs to be banned.
Simple logic.
(and let them try to come for my bullets)
LOL!
Do these clowns even read what they say before they say it?
Stupid quesion I guess.
ML/NJ
If Carbon Dioxide is now a DEADLY and TOXIC poison according to them, then we will have to quit driving faster than 30 mph, or else we will lose control of our vehicles because the wheels bounced themselves off the highway.
Now this is a clear example of the kind of minds that make up this new Goobermint.
Cant have junk weights around for reloaders and bullet makers to use.
"Four legs good! Two legs ba-a-a-a-a-ad!"
“Good...I’m going to start by removing them from the cars owned and operated by enviro-wackos first....hope they enjoy the ride.”
Sweet!
“We need those weights to make sinkers!”
Or cast bullets!
Only a liberal kid would eat it, so doing something which will protect kids from this violates equal protection under law. ;-)
E.P.A. to Ban Lead Tire Weights
Minority communities hit hardest. An investigation should be started which looks into the deliberate poisoning of minorities by white manufacturers of lead tire weights.
No, lead weights for fishing is not “OK”; but these things take time and incremental style precedence. Cigarettes aren’t “OK” either. The list *does* go on an on!! And getting longer!
Lead/tin solder for electronics use is pretty much out of the picture too, (see: Europe) if that’s a hobby for you, pick up a few rolls of 60/40 or whatever you like, to last. Yard sales are pretty good for this too. “They” say that solder goes bad after a few years, but it seems OK to me. Silver solder and other replacements have a much higher melting point and certain types are prone to “whiskering” causing dead shorts! It is inferior in some applications, simply put. But it is mandated for use in new electronic devices, fwiw. Hm.
You wouldn't be planning on making your own Napalm, would you?
Napalm is a jellied gasoline and the modern day version is made up of polystyrene (46 parts), gasoline (33 parts) and benzene (21 parts).
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