Insane California green energy rules could wreck trucking industry

Fox News ^ | 7/07/23 | Brenna Bird

[Libloather]

Without truckers, America would grind to a halt. There’s no doubt about it. Truckers work a demanding job delivering our food, clothes and other necessities. But rather than support our hard-working men and women behind the wheel, President Joe Biden continues to empty their wallets and force them to drive electric trucks for his radical climate-change agenda.

Well, we are pushing back. The Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and California have no right or legal justification to force truckers to follow their radical climate-change policies. That’s why I, along with 18 other state attorneys general, are taking Biden to court.

Iowa's trucking industry employs about 100,000 Iowans. That is nearly one in 13 of our state’s workers. Meanwhile, Biden’s illegal truck ban puts the whole industry at risk. The Biden administration has set us on track to devastate the nation’s biofuels industry, hike prices for businesses and truckers, and designate California as a leading decision-maker in the trucking industry.

In March, the Biden administration’s EPA violated the Constitution by granting California a waiver to issue its own set of truck emissions standards. Those radical standards go further than the regulations set for the rest of the country and effectively ban the sale of gas or diesel trucks.

California’s truck ban requires that about 55% of delivery vans and small trucks, 75% of buses and larger trucks, and 40% of tractor-trailers and other big rigs be fully electric by 2035. By 2045, gas and diesel trucks will be outright banned from being sold in California. 

But it gets much worse. Due to the Biden administration’s waiver, it is likely that these rules will impact not just California, but America in its entirety. Since California has such a large economy – the fifth largest in the world – its radical climate-change...

[goodnesswins]

Truckers need to refuse to deliver to Sacramento and DC...

[Brian Griffin]

“The Port’s world-class rail infrastructure consists of more than 65 miles of on-dock track for building and sorting double-stack trains that speed imports to markets nationwide and U.S. products to the Port for delivery to consumers around the globe. The average train is made up of 30 double-stack cars, eliminating approximately 400 truck trips and related air pollution on each run while optimizing the movement of cargo.”

https://www.portoflosangeles.org/business/supply-chain/rail

[Vaduz]

California has no idea what the hell it’s doing it just does things and clueless where the dots are.

[Karliner]

Thanks for affirming what should me common knowledge.

[griswold3]

I paid $168,000 for my 2021 Peterbilt 379. That increase is due to Joe Biden’s policy.

[Svartalfiar]

Drones might work for small end-user deliveries, but not for the big deliveries a semi drives.

They’re also terrible on energy efficiency compared to the truck. It’s not just moving a load from A to B, it’s generating enough lift to carry that load that distance.

There’s a reason intercontinental trade uses shipping and not FedEx Air. Much cheaper to move more stuff.

[IamConservative]

I didn’t state specifically, but I have been thinking drones would provide the last mile delivery. Might fly to you in dense places or be driverless drone wheeled vehicles.

The Amazon driver is the only Amazon employee that ever physically handles many things they sell. Won’t be long until orders arrive by drone - winged, wheeled or other. Drivers will be used to train the AI and there might be an interim step of remote robo assist by humans like many of our military drones today, but it won’t be long until Alexa can tell you when your drone arrives with your package.