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Is there any real data on this that these officials have looked at? Consider a bar chart or graph. I imagine a very tiny minuscule bar labeled (Recreational Vehicles) and then massive larger bars labeled (Personal Vehicles) and (Manufacturing) or (Commercial.)
This kind of stuff really annoys me.
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But really Dallas/Houston area is really picking up on all things mx. It’s great.
Gun control, no reusable plastic bags, controls on your BBQ (yes, CARB has talked about controlling that too), there's no end to it. OHV's are just another target.
Add to the fact that motorcyclists are so divided into small groups (over here at least), do you think the general public cares about the difference between enduro, supercross or motocross. As a sport/industry we are an easy target with no lobbying power.
If you want to protect the things at the bottom you have to be willing to compromise at the top.
Everyone is out here screaming "me me ME ME ME!" without realizing that it's fucking ALL of us over.
You want to protect bikes and places to ride? Then stop blaming the government for cracking down on shit like this and start getting angry at EVERYONE for protecting the companies that put us in this spot. We endlessly bend over backwards to protect companies in this country that royally fuck up the environment and everything else for us because they give us "cheap gas" or "cheap power" and "cheap shitty everything else" and now it's fucking us over.
I mean honestly, you think the when the hammer comes down on Exxon or some energy company they're just going to roll over and take the hit? Fuck no. They're going to, as they've always done, shill out billions of dollars to insure their methods don't have to change (or change the bare minimum) so that their profits don't move a cent and the CEO can keep making $20 mil a year.
And when they don't change, what happens? The issue gets kicked down the next guy, and the next, and the next until it lands on us, the same people protecting these companies, which shockingly is the demographic that don't have the billions required to control legislation. And where are those companies destroying our riding land now? Are they running out of their gold encrusted penthouse suits to help us protect our riding lands like we protect their companies? Fuck no. They're out there cutting more and more regulation, opening more land for mining, and fucking shit up for all of us.
Funny how as we constantly lose more places to ride the companies that rely on the environment to exist (and are already making billions) are given more land to expand at our expense.
FYI – none of that was directed at you.
https://www.arb.ca.gov/lists/com-attach/2-ohrv2019-WihTMFI3Ul5XIgJ2.pdf
"Over the years, motorcycle competition stakeholders have stated –to both the EPA and CARB -that practice riding on both public and private lands is a critical component of competition motorcycle riding just as practice driving is important to long-distance trophy truck racers and similar non-motorcycle or non-motorized competitors.Unfortunately, it appears our efforts to communicate the importance of riders having access to meaningful practice for competition events on private, local, state, and federal lands is not being captured by EPA and CARB.
"Stakeholders support sunsetting the red sticker program in 2025. However, the proposed CARB regulation to reduce the number of air emission non-compliant competition motorcycles being used for general recreation and increase the number of air emission compliant “Green Sticker” motorcycles, must not forget that the sale, operation, and resale of competition motorcycles will rightfully continue. In addition, many off highway motorcycle models are evolving to on-highway cleanliness levels."
Also, their issue seems to be with regulations that are already in place:
Stakeholders are concerned the Report grossly underestimates fiscal impacts to dealerships, customers, and affected agencies since the Proposed Action Alternative (PA) does not include replacing the Red Sticker Program with a Competition Sticker or Decal Program that retains the 17 digit VIN (vehicle identification number). The VIN allows customers to obtain financing, title, and registration so they can afford to purchase, operate, and resell said vehicle.
A new competition sticker or decal program will also continue fiscal support for OHV-related land management and law enforcement agencies.The short timeframe to implement the CARB proposal by DMV and State Parks demands that state legislation be passed in 2019 and take effect on January 1, 2020. Only then will the affected agencies have time to effectively plan and implement the CARB regulation. All laws and procedures must be in place before the 2022 model year competition motorcycles arrive at the marketplace in the summer of 2021.
Stakeholders believe the CARB [proposed alternative] will have the practical effect of delegitimizing competition motorcycle events and related practice riding on public lands and driving said activity underground back to where it was in the late 1960s. Stakeholders believe a “Competition Community” stakeholder alternative must be considered that minimizes the use of air emissions non-compliant competition motorcycles for general recreation and increases the number of emissions compliant “Green Sticker” motorcycles used for general recreation so the agency can meet its emission reduction goals."
All public comments: https://www.arb.ca.gov/lispub/comm/bccommlog.php?listname=ohrv2019
you're spot-on about logic - common sense has nothing to do with it. Can't reason with people that worship at the green altar. Their goal is complete land closure, since humans are the enemy.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/03/518323094/rise-in-sm…
I want to be sure I understand your point.
You believe if companies with large enviro impacts like Exxon were fairly held to task that we wouldn't be experiencing this type of (OHV vehicle) regulation?
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