Posted on 11/25/2022 9:02:52 PM PST by SeekAndFind
California's Air Resources Board has laid out a plan to ban all diesel-powered trucks that would cause inflationary ripples throughout the entire economy.
The plan would mandate that all new trucks operating around busy railways and ports be zero emission vehicles by 2024 - while all diesel trucks would be phased out by 2035, and eventually, banishing every truck and bus fleet from California roads by 2045, where feasible, according to SFGATE.
The proposed Advance Clean Fleets regulation first targets the busiest trucking areas in the state — around warehouses, sea ports and railways. The board says the pollution in these areas affects communities disproportionately.
"Many California neighborhoods, especially Black and Brown, low-income and vulnerable communities, live, work, play and attend schools adjacent to the ports, railyards, distribution centers, and freight corridors and experience the heaviest truck traffic," wrote the board, which asserts that this type of pollution creates health risks for those communities.
Representatives from the trucking and construction industries were livid at a recent hearing on the issue - where over 150 public commenters voiced their opinions ranging from the state's woefully inadequate grid, to a general lack of charging capacity to handle a massive shift to zero-emission vehicles so quickly (whose electricity would in part be generated by coal).
"The infrastructure cannot be established in the timeframe given," said American Trucking Association representative Mike Tunnell. "Fleets will have to deploy trucks that cannot do the same job as their current trucks."
Another speaker, construction company CEO Jamie Angus, pointed to logistical issues involved with charging electric vehicles.
"This will do damage to us. We don't really understand how to charge these vehicles," he said, adding "Those pieces of equipment go home with those men every day, so they'll need to be charged from home? How do you compensate that person for that?"
On the other side of the fence, environmentalists - including the Sierra Club, argued in favor of an expedited timeline to rid California roads of internal combustion engines as quickly as possible.
Maybe they can also figure out how to solve the massive logistical and economic issues that would surely ensue, as well as what to do with all that lithium when the batteries eventually go bad?
[[Liberals are beyond being educatable.]]
Like Clint Eastwood said -”If you could reason with a liberal, there wouldn’t be any liberals”
Nope.
DMV registration fees will go through the roof.
do not forget their goal is for you not to be able to move around at your leisure.
Making cars almost affordable will make that the case.
Why pay 2-3k a year for registration fees on an EV?
They already do that
Remember not so long back when califreakia wouldn’t allow ships to dock because of covid? and the turmoil and economic disaster that maneuver caused? It’s like Deja Vu all over again
Just out of curiosity, have EV trucks and trains been designed and built in sufficient numbers that they could replace everything?
Or do these morons think that just because Musk has been researching the trucks, they’re readily available and affordable for folks?
Wouldn’t shock me if Mexico was funding situation....to eventually get all of California’s port business.
[[do not forget their goal is for you not to be able to move around at your leisure.]]
A thought just occurred to me- i wonder if that is gonna be part of the end times- they sure could control most of the population thaT way, and it woudl drive people to panic and cause them to want to take the mark in order to be ‘allowed’ things they once enjoyed unrestrictedly.. “Take the mark and be allowed to travel 100 miles a month by car if you want... oh, and you can keep your doctor and health plans too”
A plan, US companies deliver to the California border, then California can use illegal Mexicans to be mules and carry it from the Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon borders and ports to people throughout the state.
Idiots. That’s not a plan. That’s a wish, and you know what they say about wishes in one hand, etc. Where’s the plan to increase the electric grid capacity and charging stations, and even the vehicles. Where’s the plan with the specs, What, Who, How, and When, the environmental studies, the budget, and all the rest.
Problems in California cause problems across the country, because of their size. If they do this, expect horrible, cascading issues elsewhere.
Cheaper if we build a new port in Mexico then get the imports that way from the Pacific Ocean.
= = =
You can port in Western Mexico head to Texas and North and East from there.
It is the same, maybe shorter, than from LA.
Check this NAFTA map:
https://www.americansov.org/images/naipn_nasco_corridor.jpg
Morons. A race to the bottom.
I can’t decide if these people are stupid, ignorant, crazy or all three. I kind of suspect all threes
So how is Newsom and Pelosi going to get their extensive Nappa Valley vineyard grape production to the factory and the cases of wine to market....?...inquiring minds.....
Huge opportunity for Oregon and Washington.
They’re woke too.
Hell, hire the Cartels to kill’em all, I’m pretty sure they would do it for about 2 grand apiece.
Curious to see what happens when a few of
these trucks combust. What damage they will
inflict, I am assuming most of the forklifts
used on the docks are propane powered, as
just salt in the atnosphere is enough to
corrode steel and lithium batteries.
I believe it’s not the pollution from diesel fuels these Kalifornia idiots want to stop, it’s the people who will die as a result of their deadly laws that they enact. It’s also the NWO’s depopulation craze these idiots believe that they will somehow be immune from the suffering effects that they themselves force on to the masses of people of whom they are supposed to serve.
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