Posted on 03/09/2016 2:56:32 PM PST by Libloather
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The Specialty Equipment Market Association says the companies it represents support a $1.4 billion industry, selling car racing products and aftermarket vehicle parts. The business association contends that the EPA rule under consideration would make it illegal for businesses to sell car parts intended to convert traditional production engines to engines that don’t meet emissions standards.
The EPA intends to finalize its proposed regulations this summer and it has reopened public comment on the issue.
Three other congressmen have signed McHenry's bill: U.S. Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, Bill Posey, R-Fla., and Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., and Dean Heller, R-Nev., are co-sponsoring the Senate version.
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Again, none of the EPA's business.
NASCAR asked for it. They’ve supported all kinds of left wing stuff from rebel flags bans to inviting Obama, to global warming.
I thought this particular bit of EPA nonsense was specific to vehicles “that have been certified by EPA”. In other words, production street-legal cars and trucks. If that’s the case, it has no bearing on NASCAR, as none of their cars or engines are built for street use.
The EPA, tearing down the country one brick at a time.
1st tanning booths, now NASCAR. I tell ya, this guy’s a racist.
Guys! It has nothing to do with NASCAR other than the headline.
Well those who want to throw Trump overboard don’t care if Hilary makes sure of it.
Don’t forget Jessie Jackson .
In other words, production street-legal cars and trucks. If that’s the case, it has no bearing on NASCAR, as none of their cars or engines are built for street use.
Yes, but there’s probably a lot more people racing, dragging, etc. that do use modified street engines than all of NASCAR.
They’re the ones that will be affected.
All these none elected agencies make rules equal to law is pure BS.. First it’s the job of Congress. Secondly, Congress should write and vote on “Single” issue one, two or three page Laws. They simply don’t do their jobs. They even hide behind these actions, not having to vote...
Yes, it’s the amateur racing classes (which lead to further driver development and eventually a ride in the professional series such as NASCAR and F1) that will be kneecapped by the EPA. I just wish these congressmen would articulate that a bit more strongly.
All those so called “Stock Car” races around the country certainly would be impacted. Tracks closed, money lost to the tune of millions. More Obama brilliance. The left hates all America stands for. Let that sink in.
NASCAR announced today that during the NASCAR Nationwide Series™ race in Phoenix this past weekend it surpassed more than five million competition miles across its three national series on Sunoco Green E15, a biofuel blended with 15 percent American Ethanol made from American-grown corn. The five million miles have been accumulated across practice, qualifying and racing laps dating to 2011 when the biofuel was introduced to the sport.
“Fuel is fundamental to our sport and our teams demand performance without compromise,” said Robin Pemberton, NASCAR vice president of competition. “With more than five million miles of hard competitive driving across our three national series, Sunoco’s Green E15 renewable fuel stands up to rigorous racing conditions while significantly reducing our impact on the environment.”
November 2013
Big whoop.
NASCAR drivers, designers and tecgnicians will do what they have always done.... CHEAT their way around the problem(s)!!!
“I thought this particular bit of EPA nonsense was specific to vehicles “that have been certified by EPA”. In other words, production street-legal cars and trucks. If that’s the case, it has no bearing on NASCAR, as none of their cars or engines are built for street use.”
Not really so much about NASCAR.
But there are a lot of racers that take street cars and modify them for the strip/circuit.
You really should read the headline more carefully AND read the article before posting.
Thank you for referencing that article Libloather. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.
With all due respect to mom & pop, please consider the following. If the parents of the low-information members of Congress mentioned in the OP had made sure that their now adult lawmaker children had been taught about the federal government’s constitutional limited powers the way that the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood, then these lawmakers would probably be able to argue the following against the EPA.
From related threads ...
The major constitutional problem with all federal regulatory agencies outside the legislative branch is this imo. The Founding States had made the first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide these clauses from Congress, to clarifiy that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress, not in the executive or judicial branches, or in the non-elected federal bureaucrats running so-called federal regulatory agencies like EPA and IRS.
So Congress has a constitutional “monopoly” on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not. But by delegating federal legislative / regulatory powers to non-elected federal officials outside the legislative branch, Congress is wrongly protecting such powers from the wrath the of the voters in blatant defiance of Sections 1-3 mentioned above.
But what’s even worse about the EPA is this. The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for INTRAstate environmental issues. So not only is Congress wrongly delegating regulatory powers to federal officials outside the legislative branch, but Congress is delegating powers that the states have never delegated to Congress!
(Note that the House of Representatives has read the Constitution out loud at the beginnings of the last three legislative sessions, including Congress’s Article I, Section 8-limited powers. So the representatives who have signed the bill should know that Section 8 does not mention anything about intrastate environmental issues.)
Also, consider that by letting everybody outside the legislative branch steal legislative powers to make unconstitutional federal government policies that corrupt lawmakers are protecting their voting records, probably to fool low-information patriots into reelecting them.
Remember in November !
When patriots elect Trump, Cruz, or whatever conservative they elect, they need to also elect a new, state sovereignty-respecting Congress that will not only work within its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers to support the new president, but also protect the states from unconstitutional federal government overreach, including abolishing unconstitutional federal regulatory agencies like the EPA and IRS.
Also, consider that such a Congress would probably be willing to fire state sovereignty-ignoring activist justices.
Dedicating cars to race or street use ought to be an issue in the purview of the states.
The only thing creating a hook is global warmism, and then they ought to be able to ban races as well if the “logic” was really followed.
When there’s a warming globe to cool (who cares that the narrative is a huge racket of the most arrant weirdness dressed as science) who needs those states? That’s so yesteryear.
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