• CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    A lot of these racing applications are what drive innovations in power and efficiency in the rest of the automotive field since they’re constantly improving engines to squeeze as much power out of them as they can. Banning this stuff will have little to no impact on pollution and just needlessly piss a bunch of people off, driving allies away from the cause.

    It’s like the whole plastic straw ban that achieved nothing and made a bunch of people look like fools. Meanwhile, giant corporations are packaging items in single-use plastic packaging and using 10,000x as much plastic with nary a peep from those politicians’ grandstanding over straws. Furthermore, every paper straw I’ve ever gotten has been wrapped in a plastic bag.