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I’ll take this at face value and assume u are asking “why is the EPA involved in this and why did they need to do anything, why is the world stupid”
The answer is that corporations who sell vehicles want more profit (obviously) and so they decided to interpret a clause in the Clean Air Act, which says, “vehicles must be repaired to follow the Act” to mean that, “vehicles must be repaired [by the parent company] to follow the Act [because consumers cannot be trusted to do so themselves]”
So the EPA issued a letter saying “corporations you’re totally fucking wrong and being assholes, this is NOT the intent of the law. it just says the Clean Air Act can’t have a ‘haha i repaired it lol’ loophole”
Yeah, that’s what I was asking. How are the companies asserting the Clean Air Act? Just rhetorically in opposition to legislation that would require companies to make available their diagnostic tools? Or are they like sending equipment owners cease and desist letters telling them they cannot repair their equipment without violating the CAA?
I’ll take this at face value and assume u are asking “why is the EPA involved in this and why did they need to do anything, why is the world stupid”
The answer is that corporations who sell vehicles want more profit (obviously) and so they decided to interpret a clause in the Clean Air Act, which says, “vehicles must be repaired to follow the Act” to mean that, “vehicles must be repaired [by the parent company] to follow the Act [because consumers cannot be trusted to do so themselves]”
So the EPA issued a letter saying “corporations you’re totally fucking wrong and being assholes, this is NOT the intent of the law. it just says the Clean Air Act can’t have a ‘haha i repaired it lol’ loophole”
Yeah, that’s what I was asking. How are the companies asserting the Clean Air Act? Just rhetorically in opposition to legislation that would require companies to make available their diagnostic tools? Or are they like sending equipment owners cease and desist letters telling them they cannot repair their equipment without violating the CAA?