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?
It would make just as much sense for the C. A. R. B. to repeal the law of supply and demand. It would also have just as much effect on Catastrophic Global Warming. They should also make pi an even 3.0, and outlaw racism.
They will be a satellite of china soon of they are not already
Oregon and Washington are lockstep with California in being ruled by leftist Democrats. Environmentalists have thrown obstacles into attempts to transport Wyoming coal overseas, primarily to China. Wyoming has more coal than Appalachia. If anything, Canada is worse, and British Columbia is to the left of the rest of Canada. So it’s Mexico, or the Panama Canal to the Gulf ports.
“Suicide is painless. It brings on many cha nges.”
All of this insanity has a suicide cultish feel.
At some point they will mandate castration..and issue Californians purple robes and Nike sneakers.
Global HQ.
And they just raised to fourth strongest economy in the world. I guess they don’t want that title anymore.
Will China let California do that to “their” ports?
Make them try to subsist in a totally petroleum-free environment before they do it - they wouldn’t live long enough to cut everyone else’s throats..
And Brandon is forcing ratepayers/taxpayers in other states to pay $1 Billion for the electricity.
The cartels are already in California and have taken over some of the state and national parks to grow highly enhanced weed crops
This Nation is hell-bent on suicide...
Let California lead the way....
Talking about this reminds me of the Sam Giaconna (sp) incidents.
Got the Kennedys elected and then the Kennedys turned around and stabbed the Outfit in the back. We all know how that ended up. I still think that it was a hit in Dallas committed under the joint blessings of LBJ and the Mob.
[[which nobody had the right to deny them in the first place]]
Exactly! Those praying the tyranny of the left via the vaccinations love feeling like they belong to a class of a ‘powerful cabal’ I guess. They feel the gov has the right to deny us our inalienable rights. I mean they even tried to shut down worship, yet allowed gay bars and certain other despicable things like gay parades, and antifa and blm ruots etc to continue
Cool...
You can't fix or educate the the purposely and intentionally stupid when it comes to energy sources, especially the "War on Fossil Fuels"
you just have to wait them out until people have have "enough".
Between Mayor Pete, and Governor Newsome, the west coast supply chain issues are sure to resurface again,
or else marine transportation shipments will have to find new ports to off-load.
The have but the gulf/east coast ports are not sufficiently large enough to handle the increased volume. Discovered this from the recent constipation of west coast ports. Plus, increased shipping costs and potential bottle neck at the Panama Canal.
Environ-MENTAL-ists.
PING!
Hopefully, Florida will improve its major ports, if they haven’t already, to take all those deep draft container superships that will be skipping the California ports, assuming they would want to swing the cost of going through the Canal and the Gulf.
That would be perfectly Constitutional under the Article I, Section 8 power to regulate interstate commerce. The old definition of "regulate" means to "make regular be removing impediments." And what are Kookiefornia's stringent standards, but an impediment to interstate commerce, in this case, with gasoline.
It would be similar to how Congress regulated the gauge of American railroads to a uniform width, which made interstate commerce in rail traffic a lot easier.
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