Best enthusiast/mod friendly state?
This is not true at all - in VA, any aftermarket exhaust is illegal and you will get pulled over...emissions every 2 years in some counties, and a visual inspection every year. Depending on where you are there are cops everywhere and they spend their days looking to pull people over. Stay away from fairfax county especially.
I swear I just read an article the other day saying that Florida's new governor was looking into some type of emissions testing/regulations
Get out while you still can
Get out while you still can
Found the article. It was on Automotive News' website (it's an automotive industry trade publication). I just copied the whole article since you need a paid subscription for the site...
Florida ready to limit vehicle CO2
Harry Stoffer
Automotive News
July 12, 2007 - 3:20 pm
WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is expected to add his state -- the nation’s fourth-largest -- to the growing number that seeks to impose limits on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.
A spokesman for the governor declined today to confirm the expected action. Crist, a Republican, is holding a climate change summit in Miami this week.
A series of draft executive orders is on his agenda for Friday, July 13. One would direct the state secretary of environmental protection to adopt California-style limits on greenhouse gases from vehicles.
If that occurs, Florida would be the 12th state to adopt the California provisions. They require a 30 percent cut in emissions, mainly carbon dioxide, by 2016.
The auto industry has challenged the rules in federal courts as an illegal attempt to regulate fuel economy -- a power reserved by the federal government.
CO2 is an unavoidable byproduct of burning fossil fuel and a natural part of the Earth’s atmosphere. But the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in April that the EPA must consider regulating carbon dioxide from vehicles as a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act.
The EPA is reviewing a request from California for a waiver under the law to regulate CO2. The waiver also would empower other states with California-style rules to enforce them.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which represents the Detroit 3, Toyota and five other automakers, testified against the waiver at EPA hearings.
The Bush administration and Congress are looking at other possible responses to states that are moving on their own to deal with climate change.
Florida ready to limit vehicle CO2
Harry Stoffer
Automotive News
July 12, 2007 - 3:20 pm
WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is expected to add his state -- the nation’s fourth-largest -- to the growing number that seeks to impose limits on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.
A spokesman for the governor declined today to confirm the expected action. Crist, a Republican, is holding a climate change summit in Miami this week.
A series of draft executive orders is on his agenda for Friday, July 13. One would direct the state secretary of environmental protection to adopt California-style limits on greenhouse gases from vehicles.
If that occurs, Florida would be the 12th state to adopt the California provisions. They require a 30 percent cut in emissions, mainly carbon dioxide, by 2016.
The auto industry has challenged the rules in federal courts as an illegal attempt to regulate fuel economy -- a power reserved by the federal government.
CO2 is an unavoidable byproduct of burning fossil fuel and a natural part of the Earth’s atmosphere. But the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in April that the EPA must consider regulating carbon dioxide from vehicles as a pollutant under the federal Clean Air Act.
The EPA is reviewing a request from California for a waiver under the law to regulate CO2. The waiver also would empower other states with California-style rules to enforce them.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, which represents the Detroit 3, Toyota and five other automakers, testified against the waiver at EPA hearings.
The Bush administration and Congress are looking at other possible responses to states that are moving on their own to deal with climate change.
I would have to say a lot of southern states seem to be more mod friendly...places like Georgia, Texas, etc. really don't give a hoot about polluting. They also have great driving weather all year round (except for maybe when it gets really hot out, which makes it tough for forced induction engines).
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Found the article. It was on Automotive News' website (it's an automotive industry trade publication). I just copied the whole article since you need a paid subscription for the site...
Florida ready to limit vehicle CO2
Harry Stoffer
Automotive News
July 12, 2007 - 3:20 pm
WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is expected to add his state -- the nation’s fourth-largest -- to the growing number that seeks to impose limits on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.
Florida ready to limit vehicle CO2
Harry Stoffer
Automotive News
July 12, 2007 - 3:20 pm
WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is expected to add his state -- the nation’s fourth-largest -- to the growing number that seeks to impose limits on greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles.
Here is some more info on FL.
Originally Posted by News-Press.com
MIAMI — Gov. Charlie Crist christened the opening of a two-day climate change summit Thursday with warnings that global warming was real and Florida must be a leader in breaking the nation's addiction to fossil fuels.
"Here in Florida we plan to reduce greenhouse gases and increase our energy efficiency. Florida will pursue renewable solar energy sources. After all, we are the Sunshine State," Crist told a packed ballroom at the Miami InterContinental Hotel.
The governor said he knows climate change is debatable.
But he also cited "a strong body of scientific evidence indicating that global climate change is real (and) we have a responsibility to face this reality head-on and take action to address it."
Crist already launched the two-day summit with a bang by announcing he planned to order ambitious targets for reducing Florida's greenhouse gas emissions in ways similar to what California adopted last year.
The move would place Florida at the vanguard of global warming initiatives among Southern states, with caps on how much carbon emissions power plants and vehicles could produce.
The draft proposals call for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants to 2000 levels within a decade and 80 percent below the state's 1990 levels by 2050.
Crist's directives also call for requiring new homes built to be 15 percent more energy efficient by 2009, and for the state to adopt the same vehicle carbon emission standards California is trying to win approval for from the federal government.
Crist and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will highlight those aims Friday.
Lisa Edgar, chair of the Florida Public Service Commission, called Crist's forthcoming executive orders "a call to action" and stressed state leaders were committed to shifting the state's energy course toward renewable energy.
The PSC last month, for instance, rejected a proposal for Florida Power & Light to build a new coal plant in rural Glades County.
"In this state we are not going to stay with the status quo," Edgar said.
Wade Hopping, a lobbyist for community developers in Florida, said the success of such sweeping new initiatives in Florida would be giving builders incentives to go along with it.
"All these things are expensive in the sense it will cost the consumer more," he said.
"It is going to take some money so we don't make the affordable housing crunch worse."
Carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels grew 18 percent across the country between 1990 and 2004, the Public Interest Research Group reported earlier this year.
Florida ranked second behind only Texas among the fastest growing states polluting greenhouse gases, the report of federal data shows.
Mike Sole, Florida environmental protection secretary, said unless the state could curb its reliance on fossil fuels, carbon dioxide levels would double between now and 2025.
Originally Posted by News-Press.com
MIAMI — Gov. Charlie Crist christened the opening of a two-day climate change summit Thursday with warnings that global warming was real and Florida must be a leader in breaking the nation's addiction to fossil fuels.
"Here in Florida we plan to reduce greenhouse gases and increase our energy efficiency. Florida will pursue renewable solar energy sources. After all, we are the Sunshine State," Crist told a packed ballroom at the Miami InterContinental Hotel.
The governor said he knows climate change is debatable.
But he also cited "a strong body of scientific evidence indicating that global climate change is real (and) we have a responsibility to face this reality head-on and take action to address it."
Crist already launched the two-day summit with a bang by announcing he planned to order ambitious targets for reducing Florida's greenhouse gas emissions in ways similar to what California adopted last year.
The move would place Florida at the vanguard of global warming initiatives among Southern states, with caps on how much carbon emissions power plants and vehicles could produce.
The draft proposals call for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants to 2000 levels within a decade and 80 percent below the state's 1990 levels by 2050.
Crist's directives also call for requiring new homes built to be 15 percent more energy efficient by 2009, and for the state to adopt the same vehicle carbon emission standards California is trying to win approval for from the federal government.
Crist and California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will highlight those aims Friday.
Lisa Edgar, chair of the Florida Public Service Commission, called Crist's forthcoming executive orders "a call to action" and stressed state leaders were committed to shifting the state's energy course toward renewable energy.
The PSC last month, for instance, rejected a proposal for Florida Power & Light to build a new coal plant in rural Glades County.
"In this state we are not going to stay with the status quo," Edgar said.
Wade Hopping, a lobbyist for community developers in Florida, said the success of such sweeping new initiatives in Florida would be giving builders incentives to go along with it.
"All these things are expensive in the sense it will cost the consumer more," he said.
"It is going to take some money so we don't make the affordable housing crunch worse."
Carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels grew 18 percent across the country between 1990 and 2004, the Public Interest Research Group reported earlier this year.
Florida ranked second behind only Texas among the fastest growing states polluting greenhouse gases, the report of federal data shows.
Mike Sole, Florida environmental protection secretary, said unless the state could curb its reliance on fossil fuels, carbon dioxide levels would double between now and 2025.
Texas
where else are you going to buy a 666HP evo from a dealership
http://www.donherringmotorsports.com/
alot of my friends are/have moved to San Antonio from so-cal, you never know what cars will run untill they rip you off the line...and there are a ****load of them
and its ALOT cheaper to live there..
http://www.donherringmotorsports.com/
alot of my friends are/have moved to San Antonio from so-cal, you never know what cars will run untill they rip you off the line...and there are a ****load of them
and its ALOT cheaper to live there..
This is not true at all - in VA, any aftermarket exhaust is illegal and you will get pulled over...emissions every 2 years in some counties, and a visual inspection every year. Depending on where you are there are cops everywhere and they spend their days looking to pull people over. Stay away from fairfax county especially.
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