Posted on 09/09/2009 7:26:38 AM PDT by wrrock
EPA will also pursue a ban on the manufacture and distribution of lead tire weights in response to a 2009 petition from the Ecology Center, the Sierra Club and other NGOs requesting that the agency establish regulations prohibiting the manufacture, processing, and distribution of lead tire weights.
We need those weights to make sinkers!
The EPA prohibits the manufacturing, processing and distribution of lead tire weights but lead weights for fishing is OK? How about cigarettes? Aren’t they more dangerous to ones health than lead tire weights? The list could go on and on...
They can be cast into bullets.
We need the lead to make bullets.
Never mind.
Will styrofoam be OK?
This is actually an anti-gun move and has nothing to do with health or the environment. If lead is bad in wheel weights, then it must also be bad in bullets. This turns a $10 box of ammo into a $30 box of ammo. It also makes rimfire ammunition a technical impossibility, thus keeping kids from learning to shoot. The goal is to make firearms ownership too expensive for the Great Unwashed. The dirty little secret is that metallic lead isn’t toxic; lead compounds are.
great post
I believe you’re spot on
Good...I’m going to start by removing them from the cars owned and operated by enviro-wackos first....hope they enjoy the ride.
Sinkers !!! The lead tire weights make the best bullets !!
It’s soft tyranny becoming hard tyranny. The EPA has in effect “Legislated” that lead tire weights are now illegal. They have created a “law” so to speak.
This country is on the fast track to Banana Republic status.
SZ
Lead weights for fishing are already banned in some areas. And please don’t make that list public, they will target any thing they haven’t thought of themselves.
“We need those weights to make sinkers!”
We need to make lead shot to kill loons - very tasty.
Shhhhhh!!!
Wouldn’t styrofoam tire weights be awfully big? How about gold?
Obviously they’ve done a cost-benefit analysis weighing the number of motorists who will be killed by unbalanced tires versus .0002% of the duck population succumbing to lead poisoning and are coming down on the side of the latter
“As both EPA Administrator and as a mother, my highest priority is protecting our children from environmental threats in the places where they live, play and learn."
My parents taught me not to play in traffic.
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