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And a majority of these individuals live in low-income and disadvantaged communities that also typically experience greater exposure to diesel exhaust and other toxic air pollutants compared to surrounding areas.
There are 19 areas in the state that are deemed as nonattainment for EPA ozone standard including the only two extreme areas in the US, the South Coast Air Basin and the San Joaquin Valley.
CARB projects the 2022 State SIP Strategy will achieve more than 200 tons per day of NOx and 40 tons per day of reactive organic gases (ROG) emissions reductions statewide in 2037.
A large portion of these reductions will occur in and around communities near major roadways and ports, airports and warehouses, providing substantial health benefits.
However, this ban comes with a major price tag- net cost of the 2022 State SIP Strategy is estimated as $96.2 billion.
This includes $33.8 billion in CARB measures and $62.3 billion in measures that require federal actions between 2023 and 2037 with an annual cost of $8.8 billion.
This ban comes less than a month of a new bill that requires 100 percent of retail sales of electricity must be zero-carbon emitting resources by 2045, but the new bill means the additional $3.2 billion in costs will fall on the state’s 27 million ratepayers.
Assembly Bill 1020 includes yearly quotas the must be met, with the first being 50 percent of all electricity sold must be renewable energy by December 31, 2026 and at least 60 percent four years later.
According to the California Globe those who passed the bill ‘ignored’ the additional costs to the Department of Water Resources to build infrastructure and ensure accessibility, which is now the responsibility of residents using 29 public water services from the agency.
And in the same month, California banned the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035.
On August 25, California became the first in the world to enforce the ban.
Automakers are now required to reduce the number of gas guzzlers they sell in order to reach the first quota of the plan that mandates 35 percent of new cars, SUVs and small pickups sold in California by 2026 be zero-emission vehicles.
The quota increases every two years, with 51 percent by 2028, 68 percent by 2030 and then 100 percent of all new vehicles sold should be battery-powered five years later - 20 percent of these sold can be hybrid plug-ins.
However, just like Assembly Bill 1020, there are several obstacles state officials must address to ensure the ban on new gas-powered cars is reasonable for all Californians such as providing incentives for consumers to buy pricy EVs and providing millions more charging systems.
Heat with coal-generated electricity or better yet, by burning renewable trees.
Anyone else remember the “Low Flow” toilets CA mandated?
All it meant is you have to flush twice.
So PGE and SoCal Edison will be made monopolies by law?
Man, they’re really putting the screws to people...And how many will be driven out of a business, businesses they can’t even sell!
Don’t laugh, what CA does infects the rest of the nation.
“California will BAN all new gas-fueled furnaces and heaters by 2030 to cut ozone levels”
Take that, Putin!!!!
If you want to invade and take California, six decent linemen and a few cherry picker bucket trucks should be all you need to take it.
No transportation. No heat. No air conditioning. No refrigeration. No grocery stores. No banking. No wireless phones. No emergency services resistance.
Yep. Those six guys could take the whole west coast.
Ozone? I thought that we had moved on to carbon dioxide as the bad guy.
I love my gas furnace and dryer and hot water heater
I didn’t know ozone (or the hole for that matter) was still a thing. Either way, California is being gutted like a fish with environmental regulations.
they are just banning stuff
without any mention of upgrading the grid
i guess heating/cooling will become a luxury in CA
forget about EVs
the masses will be on the bus
Is California aware that human beings exhale dangerous, climate-destroying carbon dioxide?
If California was really serious about saving Mother Earth, they would ban all exhaling. Inhaling, okay. Exhaling, a felony.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/09/22/trucks-racist-buttigeig-compagno-deangelis/
““What they’re saying is that is racist, trucks are racist, highways are racist, practices are racist, so what are we going to do? Instead of thinking about things and thinking of how to lift up minority communities we’re going to ban everything,” co-host Emily Compagno said.”
Diesel is Rascist.
Lost in the Ozone
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen
told ya a million times how I Love you.
But honey your old shriveled heart won’t let me in.
So I’ll just relax here, with this glass of gin,
Headed for the ozone again.
Here we go now...
I’m lost in the ozone again.
I’m lost in the ozone again.
One drink of wine, two drinks of gin...
And I’m lost in the ozone again.
Now the neon lights are shining bright downtown.
There’s a thousand swinging doors gonna let me in.
I tucked the kids in bed, he! Eight o’clock and then...
I’m gonna head for the ozone again.
Just watch me...
I’m lost in the ozone again.
I’m lost in the ozone again.
One drink of wine, two drinks of gin...
And I’m lost in the ozone again.
Most of California’s pollution comes from China and India.
China is building more than half of the world's new coal power plants.
CO2 is plant food. Ever heard of photosynthesis?
CO2 makes up 0.04% of the air.
We're gonna die here in California East Germany.
but but air moves ,LOL
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) rules California like the Stasi ruled East Germany, and exists due to a ‘waiver’ granted by the federal government. This waiver or exemption can be revoked at any time by a sane federal administration, making fuel standards/emissions/gasoline blends etc a federal and not a state concern.