Save our Racecars
By Tyler Dunham
The Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act, or RPM Act, has recently began as a fight against the EPA. The EPA wants to ban all companies that produce performance parts for vehicles in an effort to help our air quality. With most small bills like this, they are usually gone and forgotten pretty quickly, but, behind the RPM Act, is SEMA, a very wealthy company. SEMA continues to try to protect motor hobbyists, but it seems to be getting harder and harder for them. The biggest category affected so far is diesel trucks because they are not “dedicated race cars'' when in actuality some truly are. MagnaFlow, a company who manufactures exhaust systems and performance parts was fined over $600,000 for selling these parts. Not only are companies losing money, but this will also upset a large community of people who love to race their cars and spend money on them. Social media is blowing up in the car community, continuing to fight for the rights to have a fast car. It is some people's passion that they never thought they would have to give up, and now they have to fight just to be able to drive their car.
The EPA’s whole reason behind this is to enforce the Clean Air Act and fight the pollution levels in our country. Electric vehicles are growing in popularity, but people have used and loved combustion vehicles for years and don't want to just give those up. Companies are now beginning to stop producing more engines, like Audi who will now only update already made engines. The same fight the EPA uses can also be used against them: that it is less than 5% of cars that have these modifications, so is taking these modifications all away really going make that big of a difference?
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