Posted on 11/25/2022 9:02:52 PM PST by SeekAndFind
California's Air Resources Board has laid out a plan to ban all diesel-powered trucks that would cause inflationary ripples throughout the entire economy.
The plan would mandate that all new trucks operating around busy railways and ports be zero emission vehicles by 2024 - while all diesel trucks would be phased out by 2035, and eventually, banishing every truck and bus fleet from California roads by 2045, where feasible, according to SFGATE.
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," wrote the board, which asserts that this type of pollution creates health risks for those communities.
Representatives from the trucking and construction industries were livid at a recent hearing on the issue - where over 150 public commenters voiced their opinions ranging from the state's woefully inadequate grid, to a general lack of charging capacity to handle a massive shift to zero-emission vehicles so quickly (whose electricity would in part be generated by coal).
"The infrastructure cannot be established in the timeframe given," said American Trucking Association representative Mike Tunnell. "Fleets will have to deploy trucks that cannot do the same job as their current trucks."
Another speaker, construction company CEO Jamie Angus, pointed to logistical issues involved with charging electric vehicles.
"This will do damage to us. We don't really understand how to charge these vehicles," he said, adding "Those pieces of equipment go home with those men every day, so they'll need to be charged from home? How do you compensate that person for that?"
On the other side of the fence, environmentalists - including the Sierra Club, argued in favor of an expedited timeline to rid California roads of internal combustion engines as quickly as possible.
Maybe they can also figure out how to solve the massive logistical and economic issues that would surely ensue, as well as what to do with all that lithium when the batteries eventually go bad?
make regular BY removing impediments (d-oh!)
I contend you have a larger health risk if you have no FOOD or other supplies.
APPLY those same calculations to an airplane-——
I’m Aware of the trains. I used to work for a class 1 railroad.
They’re nothing more than a gigantic diesel generator that requires 1000s of galleons of diesel to move and that’s just one locomotive.
And since most trains run with at least 2 locomotives, it’s even more diesel.
APPLY those same calculations to an airplane-——
Exactly. The gross all up weight of an aircraft with fuel, cargo, and payload is always a critical factor at takeoff. The use of aircraft fossil fuels have the added benefit of being expended in flight, which serves to lessen the weight and to commensurately increase the range and improve the handling characteristics of the machine.
One of the first procedures that you see large airliners perform during emergency landings is to dump the excess fuel needed for the task if and when they can, to reduce the possibility of fire and explosion. Now imagine dumping a multi ton battery pack, the ability of which will not even be a design feature anyway.
But this is not at all about efficiency or safety. The climate fascists are about enriching favored cronies and empowering oligarchs and activist elites.
Evidence why California can never fix any thing they keep playing with the utopia toys.
RE: Cool …
Why?
Moving the main ports out of california is a matter of national security.
When you are dead, you do not know you are dead. The pain is only felt by others.
The same thing happens when you are stupid.
Oh, well, I guess they starve when they cannot get products shipped to the stores. That state needs to just fence itself off from the rest of the nation and let them die a slow death by a thousand cuts. Good freaking grief, how stupid can one bunch of communists be????????
Tires will not be allowed as they are made from fossil fuels.
Interesting idea.
I don’t think the really big ones fit through the Panama Canal.
Roads will not be allowed, they are made from hydrocarbon fuels.
Macadam roads require heavy oil sludge.
Concrete roads require Portland cement, which requires lots of natural gas to make.
Instead of letting things follow a "Normal" flow and course of events... they're going to LEGISLATE and MANDATE the future into place and to hell with normalcy.
The DIMMEST of DIM-BULBS!
I'd guess you're right on that.
By now, even GOD is running out of patience with these idiots. If so.. Calif will soon break off into the Pacific ocean and people with soon be surfing off the coast of Arizona.
I thought they widened the canal enough for them.
Trucks are harmful to those that are unequal
Inequality means that trucks must be abolished.
You’re right. And lengthened.
Only a very few of the very largest don’t fit now. Lots of capacity there, but not nearly the problem it was. Port capacity seems a bigger issue.
how about all of the above PLUS evil
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