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EPA approves California rules phasing out diesel trucks
KION ^ | March 31, 2022 | SOPHIE AUSTIN

Posted on 04/01/2023 6:03:32 AM PDT by artichokegrower

The Biden administration cleared the way Friday for California’s plan to phase out a wide range of diesel-powered trucks, part of the state’s efforts to drastically cut planet-warming emissions and improve air quality in heavy-traffic areas like ports along the coast.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bidenwaronoil; cawarondiesel; diesel; trucking
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To: artichokegrower

well, at least we’ll still have windmill-powered trucks.


21 posted on 04/01/2023 6:28:40 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: artichokegrower

So what is China and India doing to cut “climate change”?????


22 posted on 04/01/2023 6:29:05 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Your mentioning “fossil” fuels in quotes is apt.

“fossil”-izing fuels is a Cabal thing, a label put on abundant fuel over 100 years ago to make it seem rare and hard to come by (at a time when just poking the ground with a small screwdriver would lead to a gusher).

See: abiotic fuels.


23 posted on 04/01/2023 6:31:29 AM PDT by C210N (Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.)
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To: albie

Its the country’s EPA, unfortunately.


24 posted on 04/01/2023 6:32:58 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: JBW1949

They are not doing anything. They are intelligent enough, [unlike the United States of America] to know that climate change happens every day. And there is nothing they can do to influence it one way or the other. They just live with it as we did before we got smart.


25 posted on 04/01/2023 6:35:10 AM PDT by sport
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To: artichokegrower
No more diesel trucks in CA? I wonder what’s the carbon footprint of a team of horses.


26 posted on 04/01/2023 6:36:04 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: butlerweave

“Phasing out Humans would solve the problem once and for all”

They already have vaccines for that


27 posted on 04/01/2023 6:36:32 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: artichokegrower

Can’t happen.


28 posted on 04/01/2023 6:36:48 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: butlerweave

Phasing out democRATS would solve a lot of problems.


29 posted on 04/01/2023 6:41:20 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: artichokegrower

In virtually every way “EPA == California”
Same lack of brains involved.


30 posted on 04/01/2023 6:44:28 AM PDT by George from New England
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To: butlerweave

gates, soros, schwab and pals would LOVE to see the world wide population down to around 500 million. Gotta break a few eggs to get there. Hope they don’t forget to save some HVAC repair types.


31 posted on 04/01/2023 6:50:55 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: artichokegrower
I think some of you are missing the point. California has a smog problem, and the usual mitigations aren't working because CA citizens stubbornly refuse to leave the car at home and use alternative transportation. This latest move by the State is to force logistics operators to "upgrade" their trucks to use the latest low-smog engines. This means that the cost of transporting a load will increase.

Now we watch what California does with train engines and ships. They are next.

Then there is the great ongoing move to battery automobiles: will PG&E upgrade the electrical infrastructure to make this viable with 2022 technology? What will Tesla do about replacing lithium ion chemistry with something safer, lighter, and physically more robust? Will the future of BEV be swappable battery packs?

Frankly, we won't see significant advances in BEV until there are road races. The reason that ICE is well-developed is because rabid car builders worked to build better racers...and that technology filtered down to the four-wheeler in your driveway.

32 posted on 04/01/2023 6:52:12 AM PDT by asinclair (What doesn't kill you makes you stronger)
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To: artichokegrower

Hey, give them a break. Electric powered trucks will probably be able to go a hundred miles before spending 15 hours to recharge.


33 posted on 04/01/2023 6:56:41 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: dfwgator

I think that’s already happening


34 posted on 04/01/2023 6:57:15 AM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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To: chopperk
How will human foodstuffs and necessities be shipped in and out of the State; hand carried?

Why, high speed rail of course!

35 posted on 04/01/2023 7:03:15 AM PDT by Max in Utah (A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: asinclair
Frankly, we won't see significant advances in BEV until there are road races.

BEVs wipe the floor with ICE racers because of the instant torque available. BEV is trading one problem for another though. ICE is a known as are the constraints on supply, pollutions, etc. BEV require rare minerals, a robust charging infrastructure, and have new safety risks, and hauling/weather limitations that don't compete with ICE.

They can't defy the laws of physics.

36 posted on 04/01/2023 7:05:17 AM PDT by newzjunkey (We need a better Trump than Trump in 2024)
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To: artichokegrower

Maybe the EPA could spend a bit more effort cleaning up toxic train disasters ruining entire regions instead of worrying about a little harmless carbon in the air?


37 posted on 04/01/2023 7:05:35 AM PDT by Gritty (The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution. - Saul Alinsky)
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To: Leaning Right
Mule drawn wagons are better than horses.

I guess.


38 posted on 04/01/2023 7:08:38 AM PDT by GaltAdonis
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To: artichokegrower

So how will goods from container ships in California ports be delivered? At present we have only a few prototypes of electric heavy haul trucks and no fleet of practical electric trucks that can replace diesel trucks. Will the environmental cult also ban diesel locomotives? With California on the knife edge of electric grid failure the question is even if there might be electric trucks and trains to move these goods how will they get recharged? This is utter madness.


39 posted on 04/01/2023 7:09:41 AM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: sport

“When you notice that an enemy is making an error, take care not to interfere with the enemy from completing it so you can take advantage at the right time.” — Napoleon


40 posted on 04/01/2023 7:18:25 AM PDT by In_Iowa_not_from
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