My video is about car enthusiast rights. The main points I bring up or the unfair gas guzzler law, emissions laws, and noise pollution complaints that negatively affect this hobby. I would like readers to take with the the aspect that this is a HOBBY. These cars are not driven much and the way in which they are built makes it hard to follow these laws. It is a hobby that should be preserved and taken into consideration into anyone who enjoys their own recreational hobbies. Readers must think about how they would feel if their own hobbies were intruded upon.
April 21, 2008
Legislation is aimed at proposing restrictions on tires that have improved performance, grip, handling, and better cosmetics and wants people to choose tires based soley on their rolling resistance rating. SEMA has exempted limited production hobby tires.
March 23, 2008
This asinine website goes so far as to ban leaf blowers and restrict use of garden equipment such as lawn mowers because of noise pollution, along with unmuffled cars.
February 25, 2008
Washington State senator Ed Murray is establishing a legislative motion to tax vehicles based on the EPA’s fuel economy ratings. If established, this tax could require a $240 annual fee to own and drive a vehicle in Washinton State that gets 10 mpg or less. For more information go to http://www.semasan.com/main/main.aspx?id=62384. Here is what you can do to help. Contact members of the Washington State Senate Transportation Committee by phone or e-mail requesting opposition to this bill.
February 18, 2008
Washington State legislation S.B. 6900 is slated to attempt to reduce vehicle emissions by establishing two fees.
1) Fee based on engine size (8.0 Liters or above are charged $600.00 each year)
2) Fee based on calculations of carbon emissions (additional $600.00 each year)
The website below provides great information towards the steps to take in the opposition of this bill.
January 21, 2008
The purpose of this blog is to address auto-racing and musclecar rights and issues that certain groups and state laws are attacking. The car enthusiast, such as myself, are being attacked for stricter emission laws, noise pollution complaints, and the closing of race tracks around the world. Some extremists go as far to say as old cars should be crushed. This is a hobby that must be preserved. The average muscle car enthusiast drives their car an average of 2,000 miles a year while daily drivers rack in around 15,000 miles a year. The pollution from daily drivers exceeds those of muscle cars. How about the black smoke coming out of diesel semi-trucks? Or how about the noise pollution from police sirens, screaming babies, construction zones, and football games? Give me a break that autoracing and old cars are a source of noise pollution. Then there are people who want to close down race tracks, but wonder why there is so much illegal street racing going on. If you take down a place for car enthusiasts to race their cars legally, then of course they will resort to illegal means. This is a hobby that has long been prevalent in the United States since people started racing on the salt flats in the early 1900’s and started “souping” up their cars to make them faster. It’s a hobby that must be prevalent today.
