Roger McDaniels wrote:
[...] As car and racing enthusiasts, we should care about this controversy because it indirectly affects us. If the EPA’s intent is to eventually crack down on race car emissions, it will have a major effect on the motorsports we enjoy and participate in as well as the companies we buy performance parts from. The evidence, however, doesn’t yet support that conclusion, and SEMA has done us all a serious disservice by crying wolf. SEMA’s kneejerk reaction hurts its credibility and exposes it (again) as the lobbying firm it is as much as it actually informs us all of important regulatory activity. The government is not coming for your race car, and it’s disingenuous and manipulative for SEMA to suggest so. What’s worse, it’s created a false controversy that will cloud the important discussion to be had about the actual regulation."
SEMA doesn't care if it is doing "us all a serious disservice". Their job is to champion the interests of their paying members, not pander to slack jawed media pundits who have never worked a single day with public policy makers. Industry trade associations lobby on behalf of their members. Why is that presented as some kind of huge revelation? SEMA is not a benevolence society for car enthusiasts.
The stupidity of that quote is as good an indication of why the once powerful motoring press is a shadow of what it once was.
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