The EPA - Simply Out of Control !

Maybe you can't relate to this yet, but it is just a matter of time until the EPA police take over every aspect of our lives, no matter where you live in this Country The State of Ohio contracted with Envirotest to perform auto emissions testing on cars and light trucks that are designed to simulate driving at highway speeds. The testing process involves putting your car on a dynamometer that allows the wheels to turn at highway speeds. Pollutants are measured exiting from the tailpipe during this process. If you pass the test, you don't get the specifics; you give them $19.50 and they don't even tell you how you really did. Did you just squeak by or did you tickle the lower limits of the sensors? Government secrecy at its best! What happens if your car doesn't pass? Governor Voinovich has designated a number of service stations to perform repairs on your vehicle should it fail the test. The Government forces you to spend your own money to get it repaired!This can cost hundreds of dollars!!

The Ohio EPA came up with a radio spot that was really good! It was a mother/daughter commercial in which the little girl is asking the Big Question - Why do we need to get our car tested? Mommy comes up with some rather convincing answers, Mommy representing the environmentalist whackos. If you don't get it, we represent the child and Mommy is Big Government, protecting us from ourselves.

When you have politicians jamming auto emissions testing down your throat, you have to wonder what they are thinking. But you have to understand what's important to them in order to understand their environmental policy.

When you are a politician, the most important thing to you is getting money to spend. The Federal EPA, simply out of control, sets standards for pollutants and then places the burden on the states to institute programs designed to meet those standards. They threaten to cut off highway funding if the state doesn't comply. Now if you are Voinovich, you are not to enthused about losing that money you want to spend on those projects that make you look good, so you simply go along with the environmentalist whackos. George is supposed to be a Republican (conservative) but he acts more like a liberal when it comes to the environment. He'd rather convince you that all this testing is going to make Ohio a better place for our children and grandchildren. It's not the cars that cause the majority of pollution as the EPA administrators have told us. It's industry that tips the scales. So if you really believe the EPA that we have a big problem here, we're just going to have to stop making things. It's time to give the planet back to the native Americans who took much better care of it in the first place.

The federal EPA has been testing the air for many years now. There are some places in the country that have poor air quality. This isn't due to cars that have not been maintained, but to mother nature trapping the air. LA is like a bowl with a lid on it. Air is trapped and the pollutants can't readily escape. No amount of auto pollution testing is going to change that.

But the problem with the EPA is that when air quality is improved, they panic because if the air is clean, they don't have jobs. But since they control the standards, their problem is not a problem. The EPA simply raises the standard . All of a sudden, pollution is a big problem again and they all get to keep their jobs. In order for the EPA to grow and prosper, higher and higher standards need to be set. What really needs to be done is to scale back the EPA. The problem is that if anyone dares to suggest this in the political arena, the media labels them as anti-environmentalists. This kind of publicity can be death to a politician.

Then there is the American Lung Association. They used to be content with simply attacking the tobacco industry, but now they have turned to air pollution for continued notoriety. The lung people have spent millions upon millions of dollars on research to find a cure for cancer. Cancer is taking as many lives as ever and all the research hasn't amounted to beans. They support the EPA's stricter standards, saying that the health risk is too great. Why almost every day, people walking down the street fall over dead after a out of tune car goes by. The problem is that these organizations put the fear into all of us by intimidation. The American Lung Association sued the federal government when the Bush administration frozethe pollution standards. I think it's time to put the American Lung Association out of business whenthey use our money to sue the taxpayer that supports them. They are not going to get any of my money if I can help it.


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