I wish everyone a Very Merry CHRISTmas
Agenda 21 by any other name...
My husband and I own a place out in the high desert of Riverside County, the HOA was formed to maintain the dirt roads there.
We have five large machines that fall in this category. To fit them to what the state wants and cover the costs (even using the reserves for truck maintenance) our HOA fees are going to double.
We can use the reserves for this purpose but when they are depleted, there is time limit on build back...
that community is screwed either way.
I can’t imagine what a small or medium business will go through, probably many will just shut down.
I found an old fuel truck that had it's tank coated with asbestos insulation and had to leave Calif., but didn't go back to buy it. Looks like there is going to be number of those available in a couple of years.
It will filter down to the other States in time. But, what the hell, On November 6,2012 the people had a choice and stuff like this is what they chose.
Why don’t they just ban all trucks and get it over with?
If I had one of the described vehicles and got a haul to California I would refuse the haul.
Our son has a 1986 Porsche 911. The shops around here (Silicon Valley, CA) keep telling us that new California air regs are going to make it impossible for all older cars to pass the smog check in a couple of years. This will effectively end all classic cars.
The ratchet will keep tightening until we are all in trains or on bicycles.
My DH and I drove team... glad we are out of the biz. Don’t these people know everything from their shoelaces to their cell phones, to their car keys spend time on a truck. When we were driving I just thought if all drivers quit delivering to DC we could get rid of this crap. Corporate truckers may have some deals going on, but this is bad news for every consumer. I guess we will be using more of Warren Buffet’s trains.. weird huh? Wait, how do things get from the train to the distribution center? Hmmm Agenda 21 for sure.
Any analysis yet on what the car “black box” mandate will lead to?
CARB, not only screwing over CA residents but the rest of the country with their idiotic CARB-complaint gas cans which take about 4 hands to operate and spill more gas then a regular can.
They have also forced (for the same reason) changes to our auto engines that have driven up costs of new vehicles.
The residents have gotten even worse in recent years; they were always a bit off. One time on Elmendorf AFB I was talking with a guy who just transfered in and having a decent conversation with him until he said something really stupid. I asked, “You are from California, aren't you?” He was. I don't think he ever spoke to me again....
Kalifornica is trying their hardest to be the first business-free state in the country.
I visited much of California in May. I visited a good friend in Mountin View for three days and traveled the length of the State and much of the way back.
My conclusion was that California is over populated. The insanity of which you speak is the method implemented to reduce the population.
Last night at our annual Class of ‘60 Christmas party there were two (actually 3 with the wife counted) classmates who in their retirement fled California for the peace of East Tennessee. The policy, insane as it seems, is working.
If you bought it, a truck brought it. And California consumers are about to learn that they are paying for these new devices as well. Anyone know how many commercial trucks are operating in the Peoples’ Republic of Californistan?
Just one of the reasons when I owned a trucking company I never once allowed any of my trucks to cross the California border. They can keep their produce or whatever and find another source for trucking stuff in as far as I was concerned.
Early in his first term, Illinois governor, Rod Goblowabitch proposed a special tax on trucking companies. A group of independent truckers formed a delegation and visited with him.
They reminded him just how mobile their businesses were and that they would move, as a group, to neighboring states if he pushed a new tax on them. Good old crook Rod let it quietly drop.