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To "help" the transition, beginning in 2026, CARB will force all railroads operating in California to deposit dollars into an escrow account managed by the state and frozen for the explicit pursuit of the green agenda. For large railroads, this figure will be a staggering $1.6 billion per year, whereas some smaller railroads will pay up to $5 million.

This is really what they want. They know that converting trains to electric is not possible.

They did something similar in Washington using different methods (cap and trade). An employee for the state warned that it would raise the cost of fuel by over 50 cents a gallon and was promptly fired for it, but he was right. Now they have this huge slush fund they can do whatever they want with. The first year it brought in 2 billion.

[Wallace T.]

Freight cars shipping goods from Central and Western Europe into former Tsarist/Soviet territory had to be adjusted for a different rail gauge. Rail freight coming into California from Arizona, Nevada, and Oregon could be switched from diesel to electric locomotives near the state line.