ORIGINAL: abel_pranger
ORIGINAL: Mode One
Snowmobiles, OHVs, outboard motors, chainsaws, but to name a few! There should be multitudes of people against thsi bill! Then to top it all off, nothing said or done about where pollution is really coming from, which is the automobile. I think something needs to be done, we've just to go after the real causes.
Did you actually read the text of the bill? Automobile emissions are central to it, as are carbon-based fuel generating plants. If "Snowmobiles, OHVs, outboard motors, chainsaws" were specifically mentioned, I must have missed some fine print.
Abel
First, I have not read the bill, however any bill against the free choice of any use of any equipment by any individual goes against my grain, and if that is a Federal Law Proposal sponsored by any varmint labeled 'democrat' then I am deathly against it. By the time it gets through the congress, it will have so many "leeches" hanging on that every liberal pig trough along with half the republican's pig troughs will be running over the brim.
Remember back in 1913 when a man earning $2500 a year had a decent, albeit modest, but above average standard of living. (OK, I'm not that old either!) Even in 1939, a family of 2-4 could rent an apartment and own a car with that income.
In 1913 the Federal Income Tax rate was 1% on taxable net income above $3,000 ($4,000 for married couples), less deductions and exemptions. It rose to a rate of 7% on incomes above $500,000.
In those days, $500,000 was equal to at least 5,000,000 or more today.
Once any kind of those restrictive bills is passed, it is like flood water through a trench, it just gets bigger and erodes everything in its path.
In addition, think just who is backing those bills. Get rid of the 2 strokes. Then all have to change to 4 strokes at a MUCH higher cost. No more 2 stroke $weed-eater at $40-60 at Walmart. Now they are back to $150-200. Then the ever lasting valve problems with the 4 strokers on a weed-eater at hard work. More throw-aways and more new ones sold.
No one said much when Ralph Nader was yelling $afety all over. No one paid attention to the fact that General Motors, et. al. were financing his windy claims because every legislated $afety device cost you and I 10 fold more $$ on those new cars. He-l, my new truck has this fancy key that I cannot duplicate to have one in my billfold if I lose my main key because of the code stuff it has. An extra costs $200. All this so-called $afety $tuff is simply to line the pockets of those idiots you send to DC to make life miserable for you, along with the auto co. executives. You must love it.
Sit on your butt and watch it happen like you do at AMA election time.
