gathermewool
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And probably still is. Brake dust is nasty stuff.
Pollution from car tires is killing off salmon on US west coast, study finds
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And probably still is. Brake dust is nasty stuff.
Based on anything they feel like. $5 a tire Salmon tax or better yet the old classic "its for the children".
maybe not a tyre tax, but a tax on certain types of cars... EVs use more tyres, full size pick ups etc, hypercars etc... this is what's being whispered through the euro grapevines for a while now and is one of the reasons tax exemptions for EV is being questioned. It doesn't make sense to tax a safety item like tyres themselves as you want people to change them in due time
gathermewool
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I wonder if that would end up being a double-edged sword. You either pay a higher tax for a non-exempt tire or pay more for a manufacture’s “premium” tax-exempt offering. I wonder how they’ll handle used tires.
The crooks will find a way to pull a raid on your wallet. Politicians and ambulance chasers (and a few others) will need to be screwed into the ground when they die so they don't pop back up.
Sticks to all the cars driving through it just like when a car gets dust covered after driving down dirt roads a bunch.
The rear end and the lower unibody rail under the doors of my bright white EV (no emissions and very little brake dust) are covered in what has the consistency of black diesel soot not long after a car wash.
Like someone above said glad they figured out the problem so the tire manufacturers can hopefully find something less toxic.
This is so true and they won't be able to ignore the loss of tax revenue on EV's for much longer especially given the state of finances due to covid. Brake dust should be controllable with regenerative braking but I don't see an answer for the increase in tyre particulates that EV's will bring.
As a resident of Washington State nothing surprises me anymore.
Maybe the tire companies will find a non-poisonous substitute additive, like industry did with CFCs, asbestos, and tetra-ethyl lead.
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ExxonMobil project heads E4S sustainability rankings
JSR, Arlanxeo, Isogran also among new entrants in revised Elastomers for Sustainability Top 10
I was going to say blacksmiths also but the horse manure contributes to global warming climate change. I am thinking rickshaws.
Ricjshaws, people manure.
collect the manure, make bio methane...
ban cars .makes sense
Ditto. I always wondered why we didn’t see it.
Apparently meth is also being found in salmon. We should ban meth too.
First google result, which also includes tire rubber.
www.heraldnet.com
First google result, which also includes tire rubber.
Meth, tire rubber among new pollutants found in Puget Sound | HeraldNet.com
New tech let researchers identify 64 chemicals for the first time. Some are at concerning levels.
www.heraldnet.com
And that is exactly why copper is being removed from brake friction material.
Copper-Free Brake Initiative | US EPA
The agreement calls for reducing copper in brake pads to less than five percent by weight in 2021 and zero point five percent by 2025.
www.epa.gov
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