Posted on 11/23/2022 10:03:15 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
A controversial new proposal to ban diesel-powered trucks in California has sparked a divisive debate among the trucking industry, the state and environmentalists.
The California Air Resources Board has laid out an ambitious plan to eventually force all diesel truck fleets off the road, with varying timelines. This includes mandating that all new trucks operating around busy railways and ports be zero-emission vehicles by 2024; phasing out all diesel trucks from those areas by 2035; and eventually taking every diesel truck and bus fleet off California roads by 2045, where feasible.
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," the board wrote, adding that this pollution causes health risks to those communities.
At a recent hearing on the issue in Sacramento, over 150 public commenters voiced divisive opinions on the proposal.
Meanwhile, environmentalists, including a representative from the Sierra Club, urged that the timeline be expedited to rid the roads of internal combustion engines sooner rather than later.
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Well, those poor black and brown people can learn their old pastime of hunting and gathering.
Good luck.
May as well add boats and trains while they’re at it. Using diesel? No entry.
If it weren’t for the major shipping ports I would say let them starve and move shipping to Oregon or Washington. But those states are equally stupid. If I were president of Mexico I would invite the world’s shipping fleets to Mexico and modernize the port of Ensanada.
“May as well add boats and trains while they’re at it. Using diesel? No entry.”
Ships are already banned.
They’re planning ahead, horse and buggies are easier to rob.
The coastal people are insane!!!!!
Why wait?
How about all truckers cease operations to and from California right now? You know, for the minorities and the children.
Only the people in the real world there have to deal with this stupidity, and they are doing nothing to stop it.
Having only 49 states has a nice ring to it!
Why keep Ca around?
Have we reached peak Cali progressive arrogance?
Seems their social-engineering plans just get ever grander and more intrusive
What will make them back off when they reach the limit of debt, economics and physics?
I expect it will be collapse.
the 49 other states should end transportation at the California border now.
Just dump all cargo right at the California border and let the EVs or the illegals do the work.
This should be interesting. 🤣😂😅
Brilliant! California can now move the homeless off the streets and into abandoned truck cabs.
Prove CO2 raises the earths temp.
They are?
Wonder what would happen if all of the Corporations using Gas and Diesel trucks, just grounded all their trucks and quit supplying California entities dependent on them for supplies? With empty grocery stores etc, etc. it will be back to nature (or crime) for survival. Sometimes I wonder if all those nut jobs in the CA Legislature did any serious thinking before they act.
Why wait. Do it now if it’s really important.
The additional good effect will be to close all California ports.
And what, import cargo bicycles for illegals to use to haul stuff around their cesspool cities?
Yes
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