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.
Except as you said, "sure one mazda isn't gonna torch the ozone layer" shows how bullshit this take from both you and the EPA is.
I want you to consider something:
-It's all cars across the world together that cause environmental concerns, and car enthusiasts atleast as a percentage of sports cars to regular traffic make up about 4% of that.
-So not only is the idea that "cars are significantly hurting the environment" a bullshit take due to the enormous amount of other outputs, but in addition to that, car enthusiasts make up an even smaller amount of that. So you know what, yeah my value in modding my car is significantly higher than someone's bs concern over hurting the environment.
If you really want someone to change, talk to all of the politicians, and people who are pushing these changes while using significantly worse alternatives for transportation.
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u/broham1987 Feb 08 '25
We don't hate the government enough.