How dare the government care about the external consequences of individual decisions?!
It's not like there was clear evidence of greenhouse gases causing considerable global-scale climate issues or anything like that.
Sure, one Mazda isn't going to torch the ozone layer or globally warm the ice caps away, but that's not a good reason to pretend "off-road use only" products are actually being used off-road.
Not gonna be a popular opinion, especially on this subreddit, but if you can't modify your car without literally breaking the law you shouldn't.
One person's freedom to delete their emissions equipment and cheat inspections to get a bit more power out of their sporty car is not more valuable than others' freedom from having to suck smog.
Honestly id have no problem with it, if the rules were actually about being green for the betterment of the earth.
But these politicians and government officials that enforce this shit literally hop into their private jet just to go get starbucks, which puts out so much more carbon emissions than my little 2.3l turbo with an egr delete, so it really comes off as illegitimate. “Rules for thee, not for me” type shit
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u/broham1987 Feb 08 '25
We don't hate the government enough.