Posted on 04/28/2023 6:40:57 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has enacted new regulations that will require “zero emissions” trains to be introduced after 2030, focusing on a sector often seen as a “green” alternative to cars and trucks.
The San Francisco Chronicle reports:
Under the new regulations, zero-emissions models will be required for all switch, industrial and passenger locomotives built after 2030 and for all freight line locomotives built after 2035. Any non-zero emissions locomotive that is 23 years old or more will not be allowed to operate in the state past 2030.
The regulations also require train operators to open a spending account by July 2024 that they must deposit into every year to purchase or lease cleaner diesel trains and buy zero-emissions infrastructure. Operators that generate more pollutants are required to deposit more into the spending account, and the amount required to be deposited would also increase every year.
It is unclear how the new regulations on trains would affect interstate commerce, which is regulated by Congress under the U.S. Constitution, since many trains in California also travel through other states.
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The object is government control of all the utilities.
They already called for it in the Rochester area where RG&E has done a spectacular job for 120 years.
So truck were already being phased out of the picture in Cali. And now trains? How exactly DOES California plan to get products delivered? Solar-powered drones?
Agree 100%! The only exceptions to this are the very few of us energy prepper minded folks who have a lot of solar to power our homes and charge our EV's to insulate our finances from the Dim's stupid energy prices. But that's a tiny portion of EV owners.
Most EV owners are getting shocked!, shocked I tell ya! about their rising power bills, even though they voted for it to save the planet or whatever. Even most of the EV owners who also added solar did it to virtue signal instead of doing their homework to make sure solar and/or an EV was wise for their climate and their driving habits and power consumption habits, then if so how to optimize the equipment to meet most of their needs.
It isn't as though Californians will suffer alone for their idiotic policies.
I’m sure Kalifornica will be building loads of new nuke plants so they’re ready for the Greeen New Steal. /s
so that ends the whole high speed train project they’ve been working on?
How will you be getting around to campaign for president Governor Noxious?
By using CO2-emitting private jets.
Next question, please, and make it snappy!
Did I mention that most of China’s products offload in California?
No such thing......................
The madness of the wealth sovereigns.
Americans in general have absolutely NO IDEA HOW MUCH of everything they use is delivered by train.
Does California even have passenger trains?
I thought Fed.gov and the automobile destroyed passenger rail 60 years ago?
Why doesn’t some legislature just pass a law that the sky has to always be blue and the temperature needs to be above a certain level? It would make the same amount of sense.
Ports on the east coast in Texas and Flordia should see a substantial increase in business.
Does California even have passenger trains?
Unicorns, that’s how.
Yes the progressives think the Jetson’s cartoon were a real family.
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