Posted on 04/02/2024 9:41:24 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Say goodbye to the trucking industry as we know it, and goodbye to the American economy, too.
You might have missed it on Good Friday — which you can be sure was no accident — when the Biden EPA released its new tailpipe rules for semi-trucks, but the new rules will destroy how we move goods around the country.
It seems like only two weeks ago [It was only two weeks ago, Steve —editor] that I told you about Presidentish Biden's new EPA regulations, coming into effect starting in 2027, that will force two-thirds of new car buyers into electric vehicles whether they want one or not. The tailpipe rules will effectively outlaw most gas and diesel engines by requiring a near-impossible 52% reduction in emissions.
On the Good Friday News Dump, the EPA announced similar restrictions on semi-trucks, again starting in just three years, and the changes will require one of those "fundamental transformations" the Left is so fond of.
SPOILER ALERT: "Fundamentally transform" means "we'll all be poorer."
NPR soft-pedaled industry complaints about the new rules "as unfeasible given current infrastructure." But the economic and technological reality is that it's going to take a lot more than thousands and thousands of new electric truck charging stations to get us from diesel power to Biden's fantasy of an all-electric trucking fleet.
"Zero-emission heavy-duty trucks exist today," NPR claims, "but are more expensive than traditional diesel vehicles. The EPA says that despite the upfront cost, over time the rules will save fleet owners money in reduced fuel and maintenance costs." That, however, is only a small (and misleading) part of the story.
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Biden has already done that.
Since when did this country run on “mandates”?
Tell that senile old bastard to shut up and go home. Drill beby drill, and don’t look back #FJB
I’m accelerating my rebuild of my 3/4 ton 1949 Chevy Pickup. It is going to be in high demand I can see.
I want BIDEN & BUTT BOY to sit on a bridge across an Interstate & COUNT the trucks going in each directions.
WITH a clip board & give us a count at the end of 2 hours.
THEN TELL US WE DO NOT NEED TRUCKS.
MAYBE if TRUCKERS went on a 2 day strike-—total stoppage-—someone in DC would wake up.
I went to Wal Mart/Lowe’s this AM.
First in line at the side street light. Counting both directions, and those turning to make deliveries at locations behind me, I seem to remember 17 or 18 trucks-—in the span OF ONE RED LIGHT.
170 miles WILL NOT get you from Reno to Sacramento
HE DOES NOT HAVE THE POWER TO ENACT THESE “MANDATES”.
Period. We need to stop acting like he does. It is our acquiescence that keeps this crap going...
Fear not Trump will veto it and the rest of Biden’s loony ideas.
Biden has many bosses.
China, Obama and the cartels.
But they all have the same goal.
the only way the nonsense stops is to dismantle DC
You know... We might want to get on that sooner rather that later...
That will buy us 4 additional years until the next election is stolen by a dem.
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Wish I could count on that scenario, but if the ‘rats could steal the last election, which they most certainly did, and will be capable of stealing the 2028 election, it seems to me pretty likely that the coming election will be decided in the same way.
He will make Sheryl Crow the TP CZAR.....
This climate change bullshit needs to be stopped.
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While leftist fearmongers starting with Al Gore have been busy scamming the gullible, over 1,600 scientists and other scholars have signed off on a statement declaring the whole human-induced climate emergency to be complete nonsense. Of course those who take as true whatever they hear from the government-controlled propaganda media think they know otherwise!
If that is the case, and you probably right, when the time comes and I can hear the neighbors gunfire, I'll save the last bullet for myself.
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I wonder how Jay Leno is taking his best buddy Biden.
Jay once said EV were what was going to allow classic cars to be collected.
What good is a classic car if you can’t sell it?
If that is the case, and you probably right, when the time comes and I can hear the neighbors gunfire, I’ll save the last bullet for myself.
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I’ve thought about that but decided against it because I’m afraid that within minutes of that shot there might be a ceasefire and peace might break out everywhere!
Invest in old clunkers.
Hmm, so that’s the reason for Barry’s need to get old cars off the roads.
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