EPA Set to Red Flag Stock Cars

EPA Seeks to Prohibit Conversion of Vehicles Into Racecars

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has proposed a regulation to prohibit conversion of vehicles originally designed for on-road use into racecars. The regulation would also make the sale of certain products for use on such vehicles illegal. The proposed regulation was contained within a non-related proposed regulation entitled “Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles—Phase 2.”

The regulation would impact all vehicle types, including the sports cars, sedans and hatch-backs commonly converted strictly for use at the track. While the Clean Air Act prohibits certain modifications to motor vehicles, it is clear that vehicles built or modified for racing, and not used on the streets, are not the “motor vehicles” that Congress intended to regulate.

The EPA seeks to regulate everything by redefining everything into something they can regulate. And the Obama administration is rooting them on the whole way.

“This proposed regulation represents overreaching by the agency, runs contrary to the law and defies decades of racing activity where EPA has acknowledged and allowed conversion of vehicles,” said SEMA President and CEO Chris Kersting. “Congress did not intend the original Clean Air Act to extend to vehicles modified for racing and has re-enforced that intent on more than one occasion.”
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The EPA has indicated it expects to publish final regulations by July 2016.

And I'm sure they will be very receptive to comments contrary to their scheme. How trivial must the added pollution from modified conventional cars be.

First, they came for the stock cars, but I did nothing because I don't race stock cars.

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