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| Monday, July 24 2006 |

Yup, that's pretty frickin' stupid.

I'd expect this sort of thing in California, but not in Tennessee. Evidently they've just passed a bill (PDF) making the installation of a nitrous oxide system in a vehicle a Class E Felony. Not the use mind you. The installation. If you have a bottle (or six) hooked up in your car, and you get caught, you're a felon.

That's pretty much the stupidest piece of law I've seen since the Clean Air Act.

We'll completely, entirely put aside the fact that a bone stock Corvette is many times faster than your average Honda running a shot of happy gas, and that in the context of street racing (what this bill is supposed to "prevent"), a frickin' SUV will get you and random bystanders just as dead as an econobox on the bottle. The deciding factor being, you know, the driver and his or her actions thereof.

Ah, but it's For The Children™, y'see, and "Nitrous" sounds naughty, so it's time to ban ban ban!

Jeebus. It's a small consolation that the aftermarket will adapt by making ever more creative hidden nitrous systems.
posted by Mr. Lion @ 12:34 EST | comments (3)

Socialism is bad, m'kay?

Especially when imposed on power companies.

The state likely will hit a Stage 2 power emergency today and could face rolling blackouts, a Stage 3 emergency, in the afternoon, when usage levels typically peak, Fishman said.

An estimated 436,000 customers in the greater Bay Area lost power at some point Saturday or Sunday in heat-related power failures, PG&E spokesman David Eisenhower said. By 8 p.m. Sunday, service had been restored to 73 percent of those customers, leaving about 124,000 without power. Eisenhower said Bay Area crews were responding to 2,400 separate blackouts, most in the South Bay and inland East Bay.

I think this calls for a photo.


posted by Mr. Lion @ 13:12 EST | comments (0)

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