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Posted on 05/22/2012 3:52:32 PM PDT by ColdOne
President Obama’s eco-friendly EPA inked a green partnership deal with high-octane NASCAR Monday to promote recycling and environmentally-friendly products to the sport’s millions of fans. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, NASCAR will encourage fans to buy “sustainable concessions” at races, expand the use of “safer chemical products,” conserve water, reduce waste, promote recycling, push products approved by the EPA that have a small enviro footprint and encourage suppliers to get an “E3 tuneup” aimed at promoting sustainable manufacturing.
Missing: any talk of greening races or race cars that consume about two million gallons of gas a year and average five miles per gallon.
“Yes, the focus is on suppliers and programs, not green cars,” said an EPA spokesman.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
omg what a bunch of pussies.
Tony Stewart is a hell of a racer, but to see him in a photo op with Obozo makes me lose a lot of respect for him.
NASCAR getting into bed with the EPA is like the chickens inviting the wolves for dinner.
EPA shakedown
Screw ‘em! After having been a fan for over 50 years,,,, it’s boring! The racing consists of waiting for the Big One in the last couple of laps. The cars are all the same! I long for the days of Junior J, and Smokey Yunick, when things were interesting.
Paul, NASCAR is about performance. Trying to run an Alcohol-Gasoline mix lowers performance and makes the cars run hotter.
Well there went NASCAR. I’ll find a new sport to watch.
filed: May 4, 2012 • New York
Watkins Glen International signs on to wind farms project
Credit: Written by Jason Whong, www.stargazette.com 3 May 2012 ~~
WATKINS GLEN — It’s not clear if a proposed $200 million wind farm will be built in Schuyler and Chemung counties, but if it happens, some turbines will stand at Watkins Glen International.
Michael Printup, president of WGI, announced Thursday that the racetrack has signed on for the electricity project being developed by NextEra Energy Resources, of Juno Beach, Fla.
WGI’s parent company, International Speedway Corp., already works with NextEra for clean energy credits and marketing opportunities at its tracks in Daytona and Miami, Printup said, but this deal takes the companies in a new direction.
“I think there’s nothing like clean energy that can move the little needle,” Printup said.
“With us and the popularity of NASCAR, you have 5 or 6 million people watching us on TV; that’s the crux of this relationship for NextEra and for Watkins Glen International.”
Ross Groffman, development director of NextEra, said the proposed wind farm is in very early stages, so a lot of the details are still being worked out.
If the project is built, several turbines will be placed at high points and ridge lines on the 1,832 acres of the track, he said.
WGI is not the first landowner to sign on, but it is the largest, he said.
“We’re very excited about the fact that Watkins Glen has signed on as a landowner who will participate in the project,” Groffman said. “We think the relationship we have with Watkins Glen and their view of renewable energy and working with us will be a tremendous benefit.”
It would be NextEra’s first time building a wind farm at a race track.
“We think it’ll be great for our business as well as for Mike’s, and it’ll be a really exciting aspect of this community,” Groffman said.
Exactly!
‘EPA approved products’ means products made by ‘Progressive’ political contributions.
EPA-NASCAR is like Oprah-David Dukes.
"NASCAR and the EPA are teaming to promote green products."
This should read. NASCAR and the EPA are teaming up to promote socialism.
Please tell me all of NASCAR is not going for this.
NASCAR can't be that dumb.
there’s no dot connecting with these crooks..it’s all layed out and protected by the media
Fixed it.
Like the "planet friendly" cleaning products junk we tried, CRAP!
I bet not one EPA/EARTH FRIENDLY GREENIE-WIENIE A-HOLE is in the grandstands at ANY NASCAR race!
I suggest ALMS, WSB, MotoGP, WRC, BTCC, Motorola Cup or any of the other motorsports that are actually far better and more interesting to watch than... left turn... left turn... left turn... left turn... NASCAR, but yet have been crowded out of the limelight by that so-called sport. It’s getting to the point where it’s about as ‘real’ as pro wrestling.
In these other sports, people turn left as well as right, they brake and accelerate hard several times during a lap, and they actually discourage random wrecking. Oh, and you can actually buy vehicles related to what you see running in those series. Unlike so-called ‘stock car’, which uses cars you can’t buy in a showroom.
Ping.
Attention NASCAR, the EPA does not give a rats azz about the environment. THEY ARE COMMUNISTS AND THEY ARE THE ENEMY!
Is that clear enough?
Why does every American institution have to have an agenda nowadays? NASCAR used to be about tuning up your car to be fast enough to outrun the law....so that you could participate in another great American past time - avoiding taxes {liquor}. Then it was about taking STOCK cars, tuning them up and demonstrating the performance of (semi)production cars. Now it is about all cars being the same, restrictor plates, and limp wristed go-green faggotry. I guess NASCAR decided to turn left off the track too. What garbage.
Be no wonder suped-up eurotrash rice burners are all the rage.....at least you can go down to the dealership and by one.
/rant
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