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Email to the EPA concerning the new Emission Standards:Motorcycles
are fuel efficient, low emissions compared to truck and car. You want to take
the romance out of Harley Davidsons and American highbred motorcycles. American
motorcycles are in high demand, motorcycles keep people out of cars because of
romance and pleasure. You are going to screw up a lifestyle for many people,
screw up a billion dollar a year industry, look at all of the small shops that
build custom bikes from scratch, many people will lose their jobs and
businesses. You will cause motorcycles to be less affordable, resulting more
people in cars with higher emissions!! Wake up. Jesus said the earth will abide
forever! He will be here soon so your quest in useless and harmful, trucks, cars
water craft go for it American motorcycles no way!!!!! Kenny Hill Response to Mr. Hill From Mr. French:Dear Mr. Hill, Thank you for your email regarding our proposed
motorcycle emission standards. I would like to take this opportunity to
clarify a few things, however. First, motorcycles produce far more pollution per
mile than your typical car, truck, or SUV. See our fact sheet on our
website at http://www.epa.gov/otaq/roadbike.htm
for more details. Even so, it is not our goal to remove motorcycles from
the road in favor of cars. Motorcycles do get better fuel economy (though in
some cases only marginally, and it is not at all impressive on a per person
basis if you look at the weight and/or capacity of the vehicles), and they may
have other advantages. Second, our proposed standards will do nothing to
"take the romance" out of Harleys, and we would not propose these
standards if we thought they did. See the Harley-Davidson website for a
statement by the company's President in which he has said that
"Harley-Davidson plans to meet the requirements of the proposed EPA
standards and still make the motorcycles true to the look, sound and feel that
you know and love." Third, there is no evidence that our proposal
will cause damage to the industry, to the lifestyle, or put people out of work.
If you have evidence that the emission standards and emission control
technologies we have proposed will have these effects, then please submit it to
us for consideration. Fourth, do you know how much our proposal will
affect the price of motorcycles? If you believe our estimates are
incorrect, then please explain why and present your own analysis for
consideration. We have estimated that our proposal will increase the price
of an average motorcycle by about $60. An analysis of all the 2002
motorcycle models indicates an average price of about $10,000. An increase
of $60 is therefore well under 1% of the price of an average 2002 motorcycle.
There is no evidence that we are aware of that indicates that a price increase
of this small magnitude will have any adverse effect on motorcycle sales. Again,
if you have such evidence then please make us aware of it. You have raised all kinds of issues regarding our
proposal and described impacts that, if true, would be cause for concern.
But our analyses do not indicate that these impacts will be a reality, and you
present no information, no data, and no evidence to substantiate your claims.
I think you will find, if you are still into motorcycles in 2006 and beyond when
our standards would take effect, that the actual impacts are barely if at all
noticeable. Sincerely, |
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