Posted on 02/18/2009 4:37:06 PM PST by NormsRevenge
More like the libs are “stimulating” Lazaro Cardenas.
I predict California will be a state without people within 6 months.
Like h*** it will
Can we just put California up for sale?
COULD it be that the much older trucks that didn’t have the passes were Mexican trucks or trucks being drivene by illegal owners?
“I predict California will be a state without people within 6 months.”
And without food and other delivered products within three.
What's happening here is that the ports of LA/Long Beach have been pushing their capacity limits for years -- and the whole region is facing serious environmental problems as a result. Most of the cargo moving through the port is shipped to places outside southern California, and from what I understand the people who live there have basically said, "Enough!"
http://www.portoflosangeles.org/environment/ctp.asp
Port of Los Angeles Clean Truck Program
The Clean Truck Program is designed to encourage rapid improvement of air quality at the Port of Los Angeles through use of grants and financial incentives that will allow trucking companies to accelerate the replacement of older, high-polluting trucks with newer, cleaner trucks. The program will also help to assure a long term sustainable local trucking system that will be able to facilitate goods movement at our Port for many years to come. A special feature of the program is that it provides subsidies to encourage the use of alternative fuels and other emerging technologies for powering new clean trucks.
Lets hear it for the ‘San Andreas Fault’. C’mon Andy..do your thing!
There was a truck driver/owner on Rush today talking about having paid $17,000 for an auxiliary power unit for his rig that Kali mandated that was now no good because they changed the rules. Kali is out of control (meaning it’s in control of the bureaucrats) and the rest of the nation isn’t far behind.
NIMBY. Well, that’s fine. Let other ports collect the jobs and revenue.
Okay.... this will not show up in my cost-of-goods sold....
Another CARB nightmare. This is what our transportation bonds are going to.
http://www.arb.ca.gov/newsrel/nr082208.htm
Release 08-74
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 22, 2008
ARB celebrates launch of landmark clean trucks program with Ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach
Long Beach – The Air Resources Board today joined forces with the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to celebrate the opening of a Clean Trucks Center and invite truckers to apply for funds to replace their dirty diesel vehicles with new clean models.
“This is a great example of a collaborative partnership that will protect public health and pump new dollars into the local economy,” Governor Schwarzenegger said. “I commend the Air Resources Board and the Ports for working together to develop practical solutions that will clean up our air—helping us meet our environmental goals while growing the economy.”
Ninety-eight million dollars comes from Proposition 1B, the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality and Port Security Bond Act initiated by Gov. Schwarzenegger and passed by voters in November 2006. It is the single largest Prop 1B air quality grant this year, and is designated solely to facilitate cleanup of trucks that serve Los Angeles and Long Beach, which together form the nation’s busiest port.
The grant is part of approximately $250 million in Proposition 1B funds which have been distributed by ARB to fund air quality improvement projects throughout the state. For the 2007-08 fiscal year, ARB has already allocated $135.8 million to the Los Angeles/Inland Empire Region, $61.8 million to the Central Valley, $34.5 million to the Bay Area, and $14.5 million to the San Diego/Border Region.
The $98 million dollars is ARB’s first installment of Prop 1B funds for port vehicles, and is leveraging $145 million from the Ports to help truckers who frequently service the area acquire clean diesel or liquefied natural gas (LNG) models with far lower emissions. The program is expected to greatly aid in compliance with ARB’s drayage truck regulation, adopted in December 2007, which requires modernization of the port truck fleet.
“These funds will go a long way toward making the air safer for residents near ports, rail yards and inland distribution centers,” said ARB Executive Officer James Goldstene. “We are proud to be a part of this effort, and praise the ports for their leadership and determination to make this program work.”
Truckers may obtain their applications online and may apply for either a straight $50,000 dollar grant or a lease-to-own plan that requires no cash down and monthly payments starting at $300-400. The process is competitive to ensure that the oldest, highest polluting vehicles are removed first. For more information, truck owners and licensed motor carriers can visit the Clean Trucks Center on Terminal Island or call 1-888-KLN-TRUX (1-888-556-8789). They can also visit the Ports’ websites at
Port of Long Beach: www.polb.com/cleantrucks.
Port of LA: www.portoflosangeles.org/environment/ctp.asp
Diesel soot was identified as a toxic air contaminant in 1998. Pollution from goods movement, which has a significant diesel component, contributed to 3700 premature deaths statewide and 2000 premature deaths in the South Coast region (2005).
Norm, so if I understand this correctly, it’s OK to replace the trucks with cleaner emitting units and it’s OK to send the dirty ones to third world countries where pollution is not important to these do-gooders in the LA Basin. Seems somewhat multi-faceted in it’s outcome ; multi-modal linguistic expressive capabilities.( For the casual reader; speaks from both sides of one’s mouth)
Cowgirl, are they aware that the newer diesel engines use a soot trap that when it becomes full must be regenerated? That that regeneration uses diesel fuel to burn-off the collected soot in the filter and that the fuel used to do that is not insignificant?
I have one of these newer trucks, in fact, I have a sticker that my company placed on the driver’s door that certifies my truck is Clean Idle approved in California even though the truck will never see California. The loss of mpg with these newer rigs versus the ones only a few years older is very significant.
When the truck needs to be regenerated, if the cleaning process fails to occur automatically, a manual regeneration is performed by idling the truck at high idle for 30 to 45 mins.
My gut tells me not to do business in California. It should be walled-off at Truckee, Siskiyou Summit, and Blythe and allowed to wither. Guess that’ll occur over time on its own. The state government will price itself right out of business.
You can lay this at the feet of the teamsters. They couldn’t stop the trucks from Mexico at the border, so they are going to stop them at the ports.
Just like the Tobacco settlement....money goes elsewhere 8-(
It doesn’t seem to know what CARB knows, or doesn’t. They do as they please. They are totally out of control and have an unprecedented amount of power over our lives, our property, the economy, etc. I have no doubt that they have the ability to regulate California out of existence.
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