Posted on 07/06/2023 11:17:05 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
California and some of the nation’s biggest truck manufacturers have reached an agreement aimed at smoothening the industry’s transition to 100 percent zero-emission sales by 2036.
The plan announced Thursday incorporates measures that help the trucking industry meet California’s emissions requirements while enabling the state to simultaneously reach its climate goals, according to those involved. In striking this compromise, the state averts a potential legal battle with major truck manufacturers, who have long been challenging California’s unmatched emissions requirements as technologically and economically unfeasible.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
They’ll all leave the state an it will be back to OX carts ,oh wait OXs fart . On a planet where emissions are coming out of the ground it is insanity to try to go zero-emissions ,LOL
“Why cave to this moron Gavin”
They always do. Sounds like basically a huge tax grab by California.
Is there a legal definition for “zero-emissions”? Technically even walking bare foot and buck naked wouldn’t be zero since you require a calorie intake to produce the energy. This intake can produce unfavorable byproducts like carbon dioxide and methane which seems to drive these people absolutely crazy.
I stopped at: “smoothening”
Link to the 16 page agreement at the above.
Pay special attention to Appemdix D.
I believe "provide offsets" is a euphemism for saying "pay carbon taxes" to California. In other words, it's like the Muslim jizya tax or mafia protection money.
I understandify your concern.
But... it's California.
Suckers.
Many, many moons ago, Kalifornia Governor Grey Davis and the DemocRATS mandated that 10% of all cars sold in Kalifornia be electric. When, of course, the public did not comply, Davis and the RATS bought enough vehicles (for State use supposedly) to reach the 10% threshold.
Now the State and Federal RATS are using taxpayer dollars, subsidies, to increase EV sales.
Someday the RATS will probably propose a used-EV subsidy, as there will be no ‘market’ without subsidies.
By 2036 most of the companies will be long gone—gives them plenty of time to plan their exit.
“Ford sales jump 10% in Q2 on pickup strength as EV sales slip; Ford EV sales dropped 2.8% for the quarter.”
Fascism at work.
Sounds like the trucking manufacturers have agreed to slowly commit suicide.
What is a zero emissions vehicle except one that doesn’t move anywhere.
Rumor has it that Union pacific has a few steam engines left, and they are retrofitting them to burn waste oil(cheaper then diesel) to run solely in CA, so they won’t have to comply with the bs regulations on diesels.
You have to lie to a hack until he’s out of office to get them off your back.
Then back to normal and repeat.
So the agreement was “Do what we tell you or you will be sued into oblivion”
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