Quote Originally Posted by PlayingWithTBI View Post
Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) introduced S. 2736, the Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports (RPM) Act, on September 14, 2021. S. 2736 allows motor vehicle owners to convert their road vehicles into racing vehicles without subjecting themselves to EPA fines or other enforcement actions.
That is a very carefully-worded response. Read the bill yourself: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-...bill/2736/text

As I posted above, what the RPM Act does is neuter the part of the Clean Air Act that lists all the ways that you can violate it, and puts a blanket exemption for off-road vehicles. But let's not bullshit here; numbers-wise there are way more people with """race cars""" that still have registration and insurance and license plates than there are actual dedicated race cars that will never again see the street. And the majority of people I've seen promoting the RPM Act (at SEMA's direction) fell into that former category, having "race cars" that were still "road legal." Those vehicles would still be subject to the Clean Air Act under the RPM Act's changes. The difference would be that normally the EPA could go after the manufacturer of a device or the installer of a device who is complicit in creating these illegal vehicles. Under the RPM Act, the EPA has no choice but to go after every single individual vehicle owner instead (since the manufacturer can just say it's off-road use only, and the installer can just have their customer sign a waiver saying they won't register the car, even if it rolls into the shop with license plate and registration affixed).

So yeah. It's bullshit.