ALERT !! Aftermarket Exhaust Banning in Massachusetts!!

[Tiepilot]

This is a HEADS UP for everyone to watch their state gooberments
and how they want to take your automotive freedoms away!

While reading a local car clubs newsletter I see where the state of Massachusetts has HB1882 which is pending legislation. It seems the great state of Massachusetts wishes to BAN all aftermarket exhaust systems.


Massachusetts
A bill (H.D. 1882) to prohibit the sale or installation of "an exhaust system which has been modified in a manner which will amplify or increase the noise emitted by the exhaust" has been reintroduced for consideration in the 2003 legislative session by Massachusetts State Representative Liz Malia. It has not been revised from last year’s version and remains an extremely damaging piece of legislation.

 

[jimandela]

jackasses!!

 

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

It's for the children!!! Do you know how many children's lives have been ruined from aftermarket exhaust??? The numbers are astronomical!!!

 

[Lee00blacksilverGTS]

I bet she drives a minivan! Wait, Steve Ferguson drives a minivan, oops. Except his has racing stripes. Nah, I bet she drives a Yugo or a Hyundai. This would make me absolutely livid if I lived there. What a waste of her constituents money to waste time on. The same ilk that want to crush old cars, have 55mph speed limits, and photo red light cameras.

 

[Vic]

Would that be retro-active to current after market exhaust owners?

If current users are grand-fathered in, then get yours installed quick!

 

[jimandela]

i bet she could not change her oil on her own to save her life!!
Beeeeeeeeitch!!

 

[MaxedGTS]

That really @#%@. What the heck is up with that?

Max

 

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

This Liz Malia broad must have an email. Anybody know what it is???

 

[ledfoot]

Massachusetts...................must be Ted Kennedy's idea..

 

[Snake Bitten]

Re: ALERT !! Exhaust Banning in Mass by *** Representative Liz Malia

<font color="blue">Email Liz Malia you opinion HERE!</font>...and yes...she's a ****, a lilly freakin liberal, and totally proud of both...


BEWARE: Her picture may BLIND you, and quite possibly make you hurl...it's pretty gruesome...I warned you!

 

[AJT]

Re: ALERT !! Exhaust Banning in Mass by *** Representative Liz Malia

She looks like my Shar-pei's wrinkled @ss.

Andy

 

[Keller]

[******] Democrats..........oops did I say that

 

[VIPR GTS]

Holly crap she is fugley. She must have had an after market exhaust pipe up her asp.

 

[NCVCA]

I sent her this email:

Please reconsider your bill and position on this matter. The valid counter point to your position is that the reason the majority of automobile owners replace their stock exhaust systems is to increase performance. This may sound like a terribly American thing to do, but by and part of increased performance is better fuel efficiency.

Would you want to limit the legality of an aftermarket product that helps conserve fossil fuels? No right minded Liberal Democrat would even consider such a thing.

Jeff Snell
CEO/Systech Systems &amp; Services
www.systechsystems.com
919.719.2000 x111

 

[Bonkers]

I just sent an email myself:

"I like my aftermarket exhaust system. Not because it is loud or flashy, but because the Government has regulated the auto industry so badly that there wasn't enough in the Manufacturers budget to build something of quality. Since you have obviously not peaked out from under your ****** long enough to see this, I have no choice but to smear your name at every possible opportunity to help relieve you of your burden of office. Please understand this is not a personal attack, but a legitimate attempt to save the children you may inadvertently infect during your term."

 

[ceieio]

Support the SEMA action network (http://www.enjoythedrive.com/content/?id=7984). Finally a lobbyist group that one can get behind. They have a legislative watch and work to combat this type of legislation. Check out some of the pending "ideas" in your state and at the federal level using the link above.

 

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

Re: ALERT !! Exhaust Banning in Mass by *** Representative Liz Malia

BEWARE: Her picture may BLIND you, and quite possibly make you hurl...it's pretty gruesome...I warned you!

OMG!!! The horra!!! Gawd, is there an uglier woman on the planet??? I thought I woke up with one once, but never THAT bad!!! That is a woman that hates life, which means she hates men even more, and I can certainly understand why. What is it with that goofy state? Hell, Florida might have Janet Reno but we never elected her to anything significant.

 

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

Re: ALERT !! Exhaust Banning in Mass by *** Representative Liz Malia

Thanks for the link Gerald. While we're at it we should email as many of her fellow "lawmakers" as possible.

http://www.state.ma.us/legis/memmenu.htm

 

[Vic]

Re: ALERT !! Exhaust Banning in Mass by *** Representative Liz Malia

Wow! She sure looks like a devoted public servant. Representative? Who does she represent? Big fat old ladies who are frightened by loud noises? I sent the following-


Liz,

Even though I don't live in Mass., the very idea that aftermarket exhausts could be banned sickens me. I am an automotive enthusiast, and can tell you a few things about exhaust systems.

Stock exhausts are overly restrictive, because thats the easiest and cheapest way for the manufacturer to make them. The baffles are arranged to quiet the noise, at the expense of good aerodynamics. It takes a lot of development costs, and manufacturing costs, to make a really good exhaust system. Manufacturers don't go through these extra steps because it makes no "dollars sense".

Some systems, like the one on my car, add up to 18 HP to the engine's output. This means the gasoline is burned more completely, and more energy is wrung out of the same amount of gas. This is good for the environment, because the engine burns cleaner.

Keep in mind that not ALL aftermarket exhausts are obtrusively loud. While its true that some are offensive, don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.

Don't quench the great American tradition of making our cars run better!

 

[SUN RA KAT]

Re: ALERT !! Exhaust Banning in Mass by *** Representative Liz Malia

Snake Bitten -

I'm glad you warned me about her picture. Maybe if they had millions of her picture made up and dropped them all on Iraq, the War would be averted when Saddamn blows himself up after he reads the message at the bottom - "I am coming to cuddle you in my ***** and give you The Mother of All Kisses in the French style. (signed)Liz"

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UPDATE

HB1882 Ammended -

Massachusetts
A bill (H.D. 1882 Ammended) to prohibit the sale or installation of "a fart tip exhaust system which has been modified in a manner which will amplify or increase the noise emitted by the exhaust of an otherwise foreign car of Asian desent" has been reintroduced for consideration in the 2003 legislative session by Massachusetts State Representative Liz Malia. It has been revised from last year’s version and remains an extremely damaging piece of legislation for people with Ricers.

 

[Tpup]

Re: ALERT !! Exhaust Banning in Mass by *** Representative Liz Malia

Personally, I support banning exhaust systems that are louder than a specified db level. The 12 year old men that live around here running straight pipes on their Harly's are really irritating&amp;#8230;

Banning "any" aftermarket exhuast is stupid imo...

Roy

 

[Tiepilot]

Re: ALERT !! Exhaust Banning in Mass by *** Representative Liz Malia

Gerald,
I went to the web-site but the only pic I saw was of some old fat man with a girls name.

 

[Snake Bitten]

Re: ALERT !! Exhaust Banning in Mass by *** Representative Liz Malia

So said Tiepilot

I went to the web-site but the only pic I saw was of some old fat man with a girls name.

He'd be her!

You must be registered for see images

 

[Viperfreak2]

Re: ALERT !! Exhaust Banning in Mass by *** Representative Liz Malia

Think about all the Ricers that'll have to dig through the junkyards (I think Mass banned those too) to find their old exhaust systems! What happened to me twenty years ago should happen again. People should move out. The weather is much better here in SC.

 

[snowmann]

Re: ALERT !! Exhaust Banning in Mass by *** Representative Liz Malia

Good Lord, not to sound cliche, but don't they have something better to do? Last time I checked, this economy blows!!! How about some bills to fix that?

 

[VPRVENM97]

Re: ALERT !! Exhaust Banning in Mass by *** Representative Liz Malia

So said Tiepilot

I went to the web-site but the only pic I saw was of some old fat man with a girls name.

He'd be her!

You must be registered for see images

Ok Gerald, that picture of the he/she crossed the line and has taken this thread into the realm of tasteless, crude and obnoxious. I'm sure that photo, in and of itself is a violation of board rules.

 

[MR VENOM]

Re: ALERT !! Exhaust Banning in Mass by *** Representative Liz Malia

Wait 'til the Borlas, Corsas &amp; Bellangers (amoung others) get a hold of this.

 

[Keller]

Re: ALERT !! Exhaust Banning in Mass by *** Representative Liz Malia

Good Lord, not to sound cliche, but don't they have something better to do? Last time I checked, this economy blows!!! How about some bills to fix that?

No then they would just put a 50% tax on all exhaust systems.

 

[HOGDEALER]

Re: ALERT !! Exhaust Banning in Mass by *** Representative Liz Malia

At our last Harley-Davidson Dealer Meeting the topic of Loud Pipes was #1 on the list of Government regulation. In Chicago they have a city ordinance which prevents motorcycles from driving near the Lake front during certain hours. Don't we have better things to fret about???

 

[NDW]

Re: ALERT !! Exhaust Banning in Mass by *** Representative Liz Malia

Did you actually expect anything different from the state of Mass? This is the same brain-dead state that keeps electing Kennedy.