Hauling freight in California, 2040.
Posted on 09/23/2022 7:01:50 PM PDT by karpov
Nothing—including cost or reality—will keep California progressives from their effort to turn the state into a grand carbon-free economic experiment. The state Air Resources Board moved this week to ban gas space and water heaters in 2030 and proposed that all big rig trucks must go electric.
Cities such as San Francisco and Oakland have passed electric-only building mandates. The air board is now forcing everyone else to get with it by prohibiting the sale of gas furnaces by the end of the decade, even though they are generally less expensive and last longer than electric heat pumps.
Come 2030, homeowners and businesses whose furnaces break down could be forced into expensive electrical retrofits. If you like your gas furnace, sorry, you won’t be able to replace it with a new one. The mandate comes as electricity rates in the state surge, and the grid wobbles amid a shortage of baseload power when the sun goes down.
Californians were told during a heat wave a couple of weeks ago not to run large appliances or charge electric cars in peak hours. Soon blackout warnings could happen during the winter. Will Californians have to avoid running hot water and heating their homes too? Even in California, it can get chilly when the sun goes down.
These grid strains could be exacerbated by the Air Resources Board’s proposal to ban the sale of diesel and gas trucks by 2040. Such large fleet operators as Amazon and UPS would have to start making the transition to an all-electric fleet in a few years. Yet the charging network and technology needed to meet the mandate is all but nonexistent.
Long-haul diesel trucks can go some 1,000 miles before needing to fill up, which takes 10 to 15 minutes.
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So depressing.
Well, you can pop corn on an electric stove so start popping.
Hopefully California would have fallen in the ocean by the time all these deadlines start occurring.
Everybody knows none of these laws will be enforced, they are just proclaimed so the politicians can look and feel good about themselves, after all who the hell would enforce these laws? There is literally no way to do it
We get it, you hate your fellow Americans, leftist
Other states will follow step by step with this crap
Right now I think the only thing that will save the state is a major earthquake.
Hopefully one which will cause the levies to fail and the rivers to wash Sacramento into the sea.
Their loss, Florida’s gain, as long as they don’t vote blue in their new homes.
Great. Replace the most efficient with the least efficient
Pretty good evidence that Modern liberals are mentally ill.
Pass all the laws you want, but who can obey them? Who is going to obey them?
Y’all figure that out you Democrats that no longer have an army or police force.
What if you can’t even buy one to replace the old one?
Or even service it?
There may be a shortage of popcorn just watching California alone. They are making civilization ending self inflicted wounds.
Again, who is gonna enforce stores not selling or repairing these?
You actually believe most california votes blue?
I guess you also believe Biden won 2020, huh?
Hauling freight in California, 2040.
And how many nuclear plans will be contructed to power the EV rigs and supply the electricity for former gas heated homes?
{{{crickets}}}
Government knows best. No this, no that, no fun.
As Aerosmith would play…..Dream On.
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