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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?
Are you testing my knowledge or are you just ignorant? Almost all companies involved in manufacturing have been making items more disposable or harder to repair for years (see phone, cars, computers, TV’s and almost everything else you can buy) to encourage people to buy new and bring the profits back to base.
A farm equipment company can’t afford to be known for disposable equipment. Instead, they tried to make it impossible to work on the equipment without special computer equipment, so you’d have to book a technician to do something as simple as an oil change.
Nice. Finally a win for the common fucking sense group.
Could you articulate the opposing argument?
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?
You want an argument in favor of not letting consumers repair things they’ve purchased?
Yeah. What’s their argument?
Are you testing my knowledge or are you just ignorant? Almost all companies involved in manufacturing have been making items more disposable or harder to repair for years (see phone, cars, computers, TV’s and almost everything else you can buy) to encourage people to buy new and bring the profits back to base.
A farm equipment company can’t afford to be known for disposable equipment. Instead, they tried to make it impossible to work on the equipment without special computer equipment, so you’d have to book a technician to do something as simple as an oil change.