The California Air Resources Board (CARB) is considering new regulations to ban the sale of all diesel semi-trucks by 2040 to fight climate change and rectify a legacy of racist practices, according to a CARB report released on Aug. 30.
The proposal would require medium and heavy-duty trucks entering ports and railyards to be fully electric by 2035, according to the report. CARB believes that such freight vehicles should be banned because the diesel emissions that come from such vehicles disproportionately affect low-income and minority communities due to racist zoning policies
“Decades of racist and classist practices, including red-lining and siting decisions, have concentrated heavy-duty vehicle and freight activities in these communities, with concomitant disproportionate pollution burdens,” the regulators stated. “CARB has legal and moral obligations to lessen these burdens.”
CARB must vote on the proposal to ban diesel semi-trucks on Oct. 27. The proposed regulations would also require state and local government vehicle fleets to be fully electric by 2027, according to the report.
Time to THROW THE HELL OUT these DEMOCRATS & get Back to Normal !!!!
Diesel Trucks & Gas Cars NOT GOING ANYWHERE !!!! GET USED TO IT !!!!
There will be RIOTS the Govt cannot control coming down the road baby !!! Not Happening !!!!
Throw these Democrap Idiots the HELL OUT of Stolen Office Now !!!!!
Lets BAN California from the rest of the country !!!!
I don’t understand how diesel trucks has anything to do with racism, except driving a truck is actually a form of manual labor, something some in one race category knows nothing about.
So, what are they going to do about all the smokestack pollution from the coal, oil, and fossil fuel oils that will be charging all the truck batteries? You won’t have any clean nuclear plants up and running by then, and you’ve drained all the hydroelectric reservoirs in your virtue signaling ways. Shooting yourselves in the foot seems to be your only “solution”!
hopefully our Lord will have arrived before then and these libs will be spending their days with lucifer!
Really? There are many things over the last 100 yrs where the “arrival” would have been appreciated MORE.
Not for some crap about climate change.
But you just “keep hope alive”.