Posted on 02/15/2022 10:19:41 PM PST by Impala64ssa
The environmentalists are coming unhinged about this one… One of the most fashionable things for so-called environmentalists to do these days is bash fossil fuels, even though they undoubtedly benefit from such filthy things daily. This of course includes going after cars which burn gas or diesel versus those which run on electricity largely generated by burning coal. For many automotive enthusiasts, it seems like the environmentalists are scoring too many wins these days, however a situation in Utah has turned the tables.
The thing that’s got the greens in Utah worked up is what they’re calling a bait and switch done by state Senator Wayne Harper, a Republican from Taylorsville. They expected his bill, SB0051, would close a “loophole” for registering older cars as vintage vehicles. If it were up to most environmentalists, they’d see pretty much every classic car shuttled off to the scrap heap in their righteous quest to rid the planet of all unclean things.
According to The Salt Lake Tribune, the bill was supposed to stop people from falsely claiming their vehicles manufactured before 1991 are vintage cars and thus not subject to emissions inspections. Remember, this claim comes from the same quality publication whose editorial board last year argued the National Guard should be used to place all unvaccinated Americans under house arrest, so I’d take literally anything they say with a grain of salt.
We’ve seen this mentality before, including in Nevada where a similar plan to get rid of all those nasty old cars the environmentalists and other “progressives” decided shouldn’t be allowed on public roads as some form of justice. That initiative was also supposed to fund the purchase of electric cars for low-income individuals, using a never-ending supply of taxpayer dollars, of course.
Instead of the bill not nuking the possibility for you to register your 1988 Chevy Camaro as a vintage vehicle in Utah, it apparently is now going to help direct funds for a highway connecting the plentiful Uintah Basin oil patch to Interstate 70. At a time when energy prices are sky high thanks in no small part to President Biden moving on his declaration to “end the oil industry” this could provide some much-needed relief. However, the environmentalists complain any time a fossil fuel operation gets a break of any kind, despite everyone benefiting from it.
I won’t bore you with all the details of this situation, but if you want to know more check out the link to my source, the Salt Lake Tribune, at the end of this editorial. Just be prepared for plenty of heavy spin, something that long-standing publication has a long and storied history of performing. At the same time it’s great fun seeing the author do the written equivalent of sputtering violently while demanding to speak to the manager.
When you’re used to always getting your way by claiming the whole of the scientific community and moral reasoning backs even your most extreme whims, facing a setback probably seems absolutely devastating. In the meantime, The Salt Lake Tribune can keep talking about powering transportation, not to mention heating homes and literally keeping the lights on, using solely hopes, dreams, and moral superiority. The rest of us will stick with reality and enjoy driving our cars made before 1991, thank you very much.
Check out the angry rant in the Salt Lake Tribune right here (https://www.sltrib.com/news/environment/2022/02/10/bill-targeting-emissions/)
Utah is getting pretty scary.
You know why the greenies are insane. They don’t but you do. So do we. ‘57 Chevys make me hard. 😎
Progressives probably borderline obsessive compulsive. Explains their my way or no way attitude.
P.s. there are companies working on manufacturing clean gasoline out of atmospheric CO2 and water.can we say recycling?
The Germans in ww2 made gas from coal, and explosives using atmospheric nitrogen. Biodiesel can be made directly from some plants. And some vegetable oils may run diesel engines straight up. We are constantly being lied to in order to promote certain businesses and political systems. Beware of the industrial political Industry....and the mostly corrupt Democrats.
The greenies feel that the only way to move people to solar/wind/unicorn energy is to make fossil fuel use so artificially expensive that alternatives appear cheaper.
The political industrial Democratic complex...
hmmm catchy!
salt lake tribune? No thanks - we already have plenty of toilet paper and bird cage lining material.
So nice to live in a county that doesn’t require emissions testing! The dual factory cats are still in place on my vintage vehicle. And it even came with the CA emissions package. The aftermarket supercharger doesn’t have a CARB sticker but, oh well, the world will go on.
OK guys..
Take a deep breath...
And say this, out loud...
“There is no such a thing as a fossil fuel”...
The next time a lib says something about fossil fuels, repeat to them what is written above.
The only way we take back this argument, is to take it away from them.
There is no such a thing as a fossil fuel
1968 Mercury Cyclone GT 390S
[ Utah is getting pretty scary. ]
THEY TOOK THE FEDERAL DATA CENTER THERE FOR THE SNEEKY SNAKES FOR THEM TO SPY ON EVERYONE!!!
NOW THEY HAVE TO LIVE WITH ALL THE MANDARIN CRAP THEY BROUGHT WITH THEM!
TOO DAMNED BAD AND DAMNED CRYING SHAME!
and, a lot more fun.
I can’t imagine there are that many new kit cars going on the road each year that would even be worth the watermelons interest. Besides, most guys that are building such things are going to put a modern powerplant in it that at worst lacks cats. Then it gets driven 3K miles a year, if that.
I had a 68 Charger. Not an RT it had a 318, like most of them did. All I did with it was modify the exhaust system with glass packs, still had the stock small Carter 2bbl carb but what a difference it made. It was no Super Bee but for a 318 it hauled ass🙂🙂
Also, even old cars that are restored to original can easily be converted to run on the crap gas and thanks to better piston rings, bearings, motor oils, etc actually run cleaner and get better gas mileage than the day they were driven off the showroom floor.
In the 1990’s SEMA helped successfully fight off so called clunker laws that were supported by Gov Christie Witless and other RINOs along with the tree huggers in NJ and a few other states. They were known as snob laws, many of them attempted by homeowners associations and the more “ritzy” towns as an excuse to keep their neighborhoods neat and clean. Nevermind the old cars are not driven much and the driving records of the typical classic car owner rivals that of the safest truckers, bus and limo drivers, etc
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