Posted on 01/13/2025 1:28:04 PM PST by cuz1961
The ACF – which awaits a decision on its own waiver request from EPA, expected in the remaining days before the end of the Biden administration – is a similar set of runways and regulations to move the state’s truck fleet toward ZEVs. But the ACF is targeted at vehicle buyers, not manufacturers.
The ACT technically went into effect on Jan. 1, 2024. But enforcement was put on hold while the waiver request made its way through the EPA.
The degree of attention that the ACT has been getting nationally stems from the numerous states that have decided to follow California’s lead – and the problems that critics argue those decisions could cause.
Long before the introduction of ACT and ACF, California’s more stringent rules on vehicles and its gigantic population created concern among automakers and engine manufacturers about the “two-car” problem: An OEM would have to make one type of vehicle to meet California’s standards and one with lower environmental standards for the other 49 states. The default choice becomes making a car for California standards, and the rest of the country ends up following along.
That reality is why states regularly challenge waivers on rules granted by the EPA to California, even though ostensibly a state regulation shouldn’t impact other states.
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I for one, am so sick of the country going the way of CA!! Ask about our 5 gal. gas can that is practically unusable because of the design that went the way of CA and their stupid regulations! I advise people to take care of and save all their gas cans and appliances so they don’t have to buy CA environmental stuff.
Take the hit and quit trucking in California. It will only be temporary anyhow.
the major oil refiners are shutting down operations...selling their equipment at scrap prices..and leaving the property unsold......because of massive clean up costs in CA.
Mexico is building a railway that is an alternative to the Panama Canal.
Houston, Corpus Christi, Galveston, New Orleans are all good ports, Tampa, and Mobile
And good luck with electrics...the grid is not capable of supporting it all and gas..coal...and nuclear electric plants are banished from CA.
California loves to makes rules/laws that drives everyone out of the state ,LOL
California loves to makes rules/laws that drives everyone out of the state
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all working to lower the cost the ccp buys the state for from the grifters in sac.
An alternative route using a port on the western part of Mexico already exists.
Used to buy a 5 gallon can for about $4.
Last time I looked-—$25 ++
I may be behind but I watched a documentary on a railroad Mexico was building that would take cargo overland from the Pacific to the Gulf. If it is functioning already then wonderful. Mexico needs an industry besides cocaine smuggling
Exactly!! Prices are getting out of hand.
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