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- Sometimes, the EPA is the equivalent
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of that dad that gets up
at 5:30 in the morning,
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every Saturday morning,
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to do chores that you
already did during the week,
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and then make it unnecessarily loud,
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just so that you know that they're there.
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You remember, when you were 16 or 15,
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you just wanted to sleep in 'til 10:00,
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but your dad, he wasn't
having it, all right?
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Then, you finally wake up.
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They give you chores and
they are set out on a mission
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to make sure you know that
Saturdays aren't meant to be fun.
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They're meant to be work
and strict focus, okay,
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and discipline and structure.
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Because why can kids,
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why aren't they allowed
to have fun, all right?
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Why won't you let me
just grind Runecrafting?
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That's all I wanna do on a Saturday.
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I'm Alex, Alex.FI on Instagram.
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And today, we're bringing
you a very special episode.
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We're talking about the
equivalent of vegetables
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when we were kids.
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It's the equivalent of the parent
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that wouldn't let us have
fun on a Saturday morning.
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The association can be traced back
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to the beginning of the ruiner of fun,
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and the recess monitor of the car scene.
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Today, we're gonna be talking
about, ladies and gentlemen,
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EPA's decision to try to want
to take away our car parts.
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Yo, don't forget to subscribe.
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And if you're looking
for aftermarket wheels,
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tires, or suspension,
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which is how we're able to keep
up with this crazy channel,
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be sure to check us out over
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where we quite literally have it all,
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including a gallery where you
can actually see what fits
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with what trim specs for
your year, make, and model.
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Honestly, the whole reason that we're here
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is because we started that thing
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and we wanted to make it easy.
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It's kind of why we built it,
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because finding wheels that fit
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is actually kind of difficult,
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unless you know somebody
that knows somebody
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that knows somebody.
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And then, it's a 10 hour thing.
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You don't have to do that.
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On the gallery, you just enter
it in and it just tells you.
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Ever since the introduction
of people/life,
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there's been a group of
people angry at those people
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for being happy, okay?
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Screw their happiness.
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How dare they have fun, okay?
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Unlike that, they should be
miserable, like me, right?
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I'm talking about this group, all right?
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The group that's been that way
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for the car enthusiasts of the world
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has almost always been the
Environmental Protection Agency,
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or the EPA.
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Founded by Richard Nixon,
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which is kind of interesting
given his questionable history,
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with William Ruckelshaus as
EPA's first administrator.
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The origins of the EPA
were built around helping
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with improving water
treatment facilities, okay?
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Air quality standards,
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clean up standards for federal facilities,
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waste dumping, and more.
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There, now you know what
they're supposed to do.
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And in all honesty, the
initial launch of the EPA
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was pretty well warranted in
the late '60s and early '70s.
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Because I'm gonna tell you what, guys.
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I wasn't born back then, but I
saw black and white pictures.
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(beep) was pretty rough.
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Okay, factories, like
the Alkali Works Plant,
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was dumping calcium chloride
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into the Holston River waterways,
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causing a little bit of a breathing issue,
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apparently with fish.
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Okay, the Cuyahoga River
literally started on fire
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because of how much trash
they were putting in there.
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And the Potomac was dumping
straight gallons of trash
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into the water.
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So much so that they pretty
much said that if the EPA
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were to get instilled, or established,
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they were just gonna shut down.
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They had oil spills off
the coast of California.
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And science was advanced
enough to recognize
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that people were actually passing away
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due to oxygen levels being
so poor in New York City
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due to smog.
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So, as the EPA began telling
people to stop dumping crap
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into the water, and strapping
catalytic converters
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on to everything that had a cylinder,
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the world began to get
a little bit cleaner.
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And that's okay, we'll take that.
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However, as the years progressed,
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the EPA continued to expand
upon attacking things
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that could potentially
impact the environment,
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regardless of the
repercussions of those changes.
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There was a lot of this going
on, especially in the '70s.
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And if you remember,
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a lot of the domestic vehicles in the '70s
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got kind of trashy
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because of how much the
EPA was impacting them.
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But, they needed to do something
to clean up the waterways.
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And if you followed
along with EPA's battles,
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you'd know that they're
almost always controversial.
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After all, it's an agency
whose role is to tell people
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what to do and then tell
you what you're doing wrong.
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They're like an auditor
and no one likes auditors.
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Nobody at all.
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You can be a great person,
but if you're an auditor,
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people don't like you, okay?
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And I'm sorry, but that's
just the way that it is.
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Whether it was an automotive
catalytic converter situation
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of the '70s, or the abandoned
waste sites of the '80s,
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the acid rain debacles of the '90s,
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or the California injection of the 2000s,
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the EPA's always been there
trying to battle something out.
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And now, the automotive
battle of the 2010s and 2010s.
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Wait a minute.
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Of the 2010s and 2020s
is starting to take hold.
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So, why is this a big deal?
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Well, because what used to be fair
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is just getting a little
kind of sort of unfair.
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They're starting to use bots
to grind out Runecrafting
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instead of doing it the old fashioned way,
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like teleporting to Edgeville
then running through
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the wildy and not getting killed.
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Recently, the Environmental
Protection Agency
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has decided to try and sneak in stuff
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through different acts.
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Things like the Clean Air Act,
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that a motor vehicle cannot be converted
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into a racing vehicle used
solely for competition.
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Now, there's a lot of
fancy words, all right?
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But, that's pretty much the gist.
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Now, we don't see for
off-road use only tags,
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but this is a bigger
deal because it prevents
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any modification for racing
vehicles used in competition
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whatsoever, at all.
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And it's kind of confusing
because of all the legal jargon
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that's in there.
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It's kind of freaking people out.
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So, just imagine that,
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just imagine stock BRZs
running around Road America.
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That'd be hilarious actually.
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Either way, the Specialty
Equipment Market Association
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was extremely quick to sniff
these sorts of things out
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and found another opportunity here,
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just about a couple months ago.
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They really sniffed it
out with a situation
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that a lot of you now know of.
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So, SEMA filed an amicus brief, okay?
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Which just is a fancy
document filed by people
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who are taking a position
on one side of a case
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that's already existing.
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Essentially supporting a cause
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because they would also be impacted by it.
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This is the thing that happened.
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The EPA is going after another
company called Gear Box Z.
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So, SEMA filed an amicus
brief with Gear Box Z.
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Like your friend may submit an
amicus brief to your parents
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to say that they were with
you at church on Sunday
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when you were in fact
getting wasted at the pickle
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because their parents, if they found out,
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you'd be grounded too.
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It's kind of like, that's an amicus brief.
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It's very fancy terminology to say,
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"Hey, you're getting my friend in trouble.
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"Don't do that."
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And this isn't the first
time the EPA has tried
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to do something like this,
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because essentially
they're trying to shut down
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aftermarket modifications.
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In 2015, they tried to
outlaw the modification
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of automobiles, motorcycles, and more,
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through the Clean Air Act,
but were shut down by SEMA
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absolutely busting doors
down, which is good.
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But, a lot of people say
that EPA is pretty big.
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So, they probably just backed
down verse than got beaten.
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And just like the good old
days, the EPA is trying again.
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Which is why we're here to talk about
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what's going on with
car parts and the EPA.
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It's why we're done talking
about the history of the EPA
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and why they hate fun.
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Because they honestly
really don't hate fun,
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they're just, they're trying their best.
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But, they're auditors, right?
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We're here to talk about
the EPA wanting to take away
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our car parts.
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So, they wanna.
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Tell them no, all right?
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Grab your favorite laptop and
register for a TikTok account
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because we're about to
talk about what it's like
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to actually teach this old
man why this is a bad idea,
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and also what you can actually do to help
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with situations like this.
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This isn't the first time that
the EPA has gone after this.
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But, first off, SEMA has
already made the statement
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that the EPA's interpretation
of the Clean Air Act
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against Gear Box Z,
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which is the case that's
happening right now,
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against that diesel truck tuner company,
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which is where this truly
all began, is just wrong.
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EPA's previous position
is that it has no interest
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in vehicles being permanently converted
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to sanctioned competition use vehicles,
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which GBZ's devices were
sold for with use-ish.
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And since the EPA's interpretation
of the Clean Air Act
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has allowed them to play
within the gray space
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of fancy lawyer words,
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it's always been incredibly difficult
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for the aftermarket automotive
industry to abide by
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or establish guidelines
for product development.
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Because the Clean Air Act
is kind of sort of saying,
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"Hey, you can't do that, but
if you want to, you can."
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So, companies did, and
now EPA's trying to say,
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"No, you can't."
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So, here we are, with SEMA
trying to fight on behalf of GBZ,
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even though the arguments
aren't exactly identical.
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And here's the tough part with
this situation specifically.
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Just like the drive.com said,
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SEMA is protesting EPA's jurisdiction
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of off-road emission controls.
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But, the suit against GBZ and EPA
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is concerned with the
manufacturing of the product
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in the first place,
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and the fact that it doesn't
even abide by that rule at all.
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It's worth a fight, but
not exactly an easy battle.
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In fact, a lot of people
don't think that SEMA or GBZ
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will actually win.
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So, what can you do?
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Well, situations like these usually incite
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some form of action, especially
in the automotive industry.
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So a great way to do with
this is to educate yourself
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and support something that allows us
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to keep enjoying this
crazy automotive passion
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we all know and love.
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This will eventually impact everything,
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especially as the EPA
continues to try and find ways
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to snuff out things
that may not be perfect
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for the environment.
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Now, aftermarket wheels
could be deemed illegal
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if they're heavier than OEM.
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Not the case with Artisa ArtFormed wheels.
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Ultra light wheel company
that we just launched
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that has deco directional
design, lovely finishes,
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and a passion built behind it that cares
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about every step of the buying process.
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Plug, baby, all right?
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But, aftermarket tires that
have a higher burn rate
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than the boring all seasons
that come on OEM vehicles
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could be deemed illegal use
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due to waste management and
excess, I don't know, fun.
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It's gonna be those sort of things,
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where once you really start
going through this process,
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there's a lot of things that
could start to become illegal.
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Even with suspension because
the EPA doesn't like fun.
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It could impact every facet
of the automotive industry.
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And that's why people are
really getting worked up.
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Now, the suit against the
GBZ company against the EPA
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has opened this door.
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And with SEMA trying to file
the amicus brief to say,
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"Hey, don't do that,"
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it's drawing a lot of attention
to this Clean Air Act.
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So, here's what you can do.
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Go check out SEMA's
act that was introduced
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about 2019 of December,
called the Recognition,
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or the Recognizing the
Protection of Motorsports Act,
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or RPM Act, which is
actually kind of catchy,
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considering what we're talking about.
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The RPM Act, which is
quite simply a document
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that was presented to the powers that be
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to protect Americans' right
to convert street vehicles
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into dedicated race cars,
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and the motor sports
parts industry ability
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to sell products that
enable racers to compete.
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Essentially, allowing the
aftermarket modification world
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to stay alive.
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This would allow things
like superchargers, tuners,
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and exhaust systems to stay in production,
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to keep being made.
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And this was already introduced
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and it had some decent
momentum when it was released,
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until it was deadlocked
after its introduction
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in December of 2019.
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It passed the House committee,
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but it actually hasn't even made its way
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into the House or into the Senate.
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So, if it doesn't do that,
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it's really not gonna do anything.
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So, the biggest thing that
SEMA's asking for people to do
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is to go notify your elected officials
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to go support the RPM Act.
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Talk about it, get
people to sign petitions
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to get movement noise around
this whole thing again.
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But, if you're not of age, at
least understand this video,
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and help support those
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that are trying to make noise about it.
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That's the biggest thing
that's coming down to the case
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and why people are talking about car parts
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getting taken away by the EPA.
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Because it's not essentially
saying that they're trying
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to do it now.
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The EPA is trying to restrict
any sort of delete device
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on diesel tuners because of emissions.
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SEMA's saying, "Don't do that."
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EPA's saying, "We're gonna do that."
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And, of course, the rest of
the world is freaking out
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a little bit because
once this door closes,
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the odds of another one opening,
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especially over the next couple years,
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is pretty damn tall.
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And if SEMA doesn't have enough fight
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to get the RPM Act through,
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the odds of the aftermarket
modification world
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staying as big and as robust as it is,
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is going to get more
difficult and more difficult.
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So, what do you think?
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Is the EPA doing the right thing
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and do you wanna watch 2021 Honda CRVs
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running around Road Atlanta?
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Or do you think that
they're out of their minds?
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Let us know.
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And, of course, if you're
looking for aftermarket wheels,
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tires, or suspension,
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be sure to check us out over
at fitmentindustries.com.
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I'm Alex from Fitment Industries
and we will see you later.
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Adios.
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I'm not hitting my coffee.
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Not doing it again. (laughs)
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