Posted on 12/15/2012 11:20:45 AM PST by twistedwrench
All “registered owners” of vehicles weighing more than 26,000 GVW have received this letter over the past couple weeks. This edict, only applies to diesel powered vehicles used as a function of business. Privately used vehicles are exempt, at this time. Compliance is very expensive, Diesel Particulate Filters, start around $10,000.00 per vehicle. New vehicles are as high as, $140,000.00. This is an enormous expense to California business owners, which obviously will be passed on. California business also has to comply with a carbon credit scam and undoubtedly, the future recension of Prop 13 protection of commercial property.
There are no words that can describe the insanity of the people controlling this state.
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?
You would be prudent to do so. The letter clearly states this edict applies to out-of-state vehicles. A lot of long-haulers are going to start refusing CA loads as soon as word of the fines starts to spread.
Just give Ca. back to Mexico, it’s a lost cause anyway which is why I left 15 years ago.
Just give Ca. back to Mexico, it’s a lost cause anyway which is why I left 15 years ago.
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....
Looks like the Big Truckers want to put the small truckers out of business. This is an excellent plan to do just that.
I would guess, here in California, tracking your miles driven. Replace the gas tax with per mile tax.
And here’s why:
The law encourages an integrated approach to reducing emissions – changing land use patterns to reduce the need to drive, investing in mass transit and other alternatives to driving, and increasing the cost of driving and parking to encourage the use of these alternatives. But it will be up to regional and local leaders to turn the vision into reality,
http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/report-state-struggling-reduce-vehicle-emissions-8730
Kalifornica is trying their hardest to be the first business-free state in the country.
Except for the current state of the US Department of “Just Us” I don’t think this would stand up to a challenge in a Federal Court. This is a violation of the Interstate Commerce Clause if ever there was one.
A lot of women revel in participating in stupid stagnant hierarchies where they can exert some power no matter how vindictive and nasty. Where everyone knows their place within the hierarchy. Like the middle ages where everyone knew if he was a knight, a serf or a king and there was little progress. Men are the adventurous free spirits who innovate and invent and progress the human race
This is the cow herd instinct they have have. Not all of course so take it easy lady freepers.
As Horowitz quoted the 60s radical, “The issue is never the real issue: the real issue is always the Revolution. The cause is never the real cause: the real cause is the acquisition of power.”
This is about the tyrannical government establishing carbon credits to gain wealth/control/power. The issue - clean air - is obviously not the real issue.
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?
Yep, I found that to be true and wuz most annoyed at all the gas going into the ground and then at all the money wasted.
It was a Blitz (may they rest in piece) plastic can. I had to go get a metal funnel with a flexible neck as the new (improved) spout wouldn't even reach into the filler neck to pop open the CARB flap door.
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"Blitz USA, which had about 70 percent of the gasoline can market, spent more than $30 million defending 42 product liability lawsuits after consumers were injured pouring gasoline out of the can onto an open fire, according to the company. That's forced the company to lay off virtually its entire workforce, a few will remain until all of the company's assets are sold off -- robbing them off their pay, their health care, and their stability."
Welcome to Nevada, California businesses!!!
No income taxes—lower property taxes, lower prices on property & plenty of people ready to work for you!!!
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