[wrrock]

Is it a rising concerned pushed by groups? Or a rising concern from the public about their welfare?

[SwinneySwitch]

We need those weights to make sinkers!

[Russ]

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...

[KarlInOhio]

But depleted uranium tire weights are so much more expensive.

[SWAMPSNIPER]

They can be cast into bullets.

[o_zarkman44]

We need the lead to make bullets.

[newfreep]

I agree 1,000%!!! Let's remove all those nasty elements from our society - especially that poisonous mercury. Uhhhhh, I forgot it's in our new eco-friendly light bulds....

Never mind.

[cripplecreek]

Will styrofoam be OK?

[Redcloak]

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.

[rightwingextremist1776]

Good...I’m going to start by removing them from the cars owned and operated by enviro-wackos first....hope they enjoy the ride.

[SZonian]

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

[SwinneySwitch]

EPA to reject Texas air permit process

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/6608348.html

[Buckeye McFrog]

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

[Rodamala]

On the new regulatations, E.P.A. administrator Lisa Jackson said;

“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.

[Yo-Yo]

“...From my cold, dead rims...”

[Lancey Howard]

Runny eggs will be next.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

[ml/nj]

It must be the fear that if one falls off, some kid might come along and eat it.

ML/NJ

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Well,

If Carbon Dioxide is now a DEADLY and TOXIC poison according to them, then we will have to quit driving faster than 30 mph, or else we will lose control of our vehicles because the wheels bounced themselves off the highway.

Now this is a clear example of the kind of minds that make up this new Goobermint.

[Centurion2000]

EPA will also pursue a ban on the manufacture and distribution of lead tire weights

Cant have junk weights around for reloaders and bullet makers to use.

[Joan Kerrey]

E.P.A. to Ban Lead Tire Weights

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Thank goodness they’ve finally gotten around to this ban.
Thousands die every year, according to reliable sources, and millions have their health affected by these poison weights.

Minority communities hit hardest. An investigation should be started which looks into the deliberate poisoning of minorities by white manufacturers of lead tire weights.