The End of CO2 in Paintball?

[FurbyTFR]

A field owner in North Florida sent me a link to the Wall Street Journal this morning that has possible implications for paintball. According to the article which can be found HERE, as early as this coming week (December 7th-11th, 2009) the Environmental Protection Agency may be set to declare that CO2 is a ‘Public Danger’ and will be enacting more stringent regulations on CO2 emitters.

READ MORE! (http://thefordreport.com/?p=885)

[JesterTLS]

Well that will knock out alot of players. Most of the Outlaw players are gone right there. Economically co2 tanks are cheaper. You get more shots. And fills are easier to come by.

What about walk on woodsballers??? Probably half or better are still co2...

The field owners are gonna take a bath on it too. Having to buy enough HPA tanks to replace co2 tanks. The poor ole compressors are gonna be straining. Gonna need to maintain or replace the compressors more often.

Then you have all the other industries that use co2. I just bought a co2 reg you screw a 20 ounce tank into to power your air tools. Carpet installers love'em. Ferg has even had carpenters working construction int he area come get fills at the field using these regs. Sucks for the co2 companies that sell the gas too. co2 is probably a 3rd or 4th of their business.

Anyway, I hope this doesnt come to pass. Just bad for everyone. I quess we should tell the EPA that plants like co2...





EDIT: I appreciate your letting us know about this. I'll be passing the info on.

[tblack]

What can you say when so many people in this world are left of Lennon so to speak. It is easy for people to cut out what doesn't effect them. The policy makers for the most part don't play paintball. But they do drink beer and soda, frequent restaurants that use this CO2 technology, and benefit from their purposes. All of which release more CO2 than paintball.

The same can be said about taxing and restricting cigarettes as apposed to alcohol. The tax and restrict tobacco more because they don't use it. Despite the fact that alcohol is responsible for more deaths and side effects a year. In fact, more than 3X more.... Claim that its more offensive to others. What, something you smell or someone who is belligerent? Claim second hand. Please, a drunk is 1000X's more likely to cause you harm than second hand smoke.

Fanaticism is is just that. Everyone has to blame something and preferably something that doesn't effect them. People prove more and more how selfish they really are. CO2 from paintball. If your going to be a bear, be a grizzly I guess. But even a bear will take the obvious choices to eat up first. And Paintball CO2 is no where near the top of that list.

I only have one question for the policy makers who proposed this... "Have you hugged your tree today?"

[JesterTLS]

May not be near the top of the list, but how about the suppliers that we get our co2 from??? Could this effect the gas industry in general? If so, bare minimum it will increase cost of bulk co2. If, maybe, maybe not? I dont know. But a price increase on bulk or new restrictions on what bulk gas can be used for might be a posibility.

When the idiots start looking at stuff, they normally dont stop till they screw it up.

[user1]

we went down the same path the last few years with snowmobiles. They had to crack down on the co output of the sleds. What a crock you could run every snowmobile all year and it wouldn't equal the output of a handful of semi trucks or one factory.

It's america we vote for who is in office. People don't vote or think about what the people they vote for think or stand for. By the time you know you have lost what you had it's to late to get it back.

[Mutt]

I think they're talking mainly about emissions by factories, vehicles, and such. If they regulate it for paintball, they'll have to do the same for fire extinguishers.

[Invictus]

The Wallstreet Journal article doesn't clarify what type of emitters will be affected. From the reading of the article this would affect all types of devices that can emit CO2. If you google emitters, you will see that all sorts of things from small growers to industrial uses pops up.

This has the potential to definitely affect how CO2 can be released and I'm hoping that they only regulate dispersing in larger... industrial type of settings only.

[Darth Ratt]

I hope your on target.

[JesterTLS]

Agreed.

I hope it doesnt go this far.


And Mongo, not to get political, but with canidates, you have no clue what they do or dont believe in till they start passing laws. Man, wouldnt it be nice to know whats under the wrapping paper before Christmas? And it aint like a politician is gonna tell you what they are gonna do up front anyway. None of them would get ellected.