Diesel Ban

jasin1

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Just my opinion, but when you look at what's happening in southern California as we speak about it, the pollution being produced by the fires will likely be a greater issue in the next few years than any "clean vehicle mandate" would have resolved...

I'm not just thinking about the smoke/ash from wood burning, but the petroleum, chemicals and asbestos that is being released into the air. That can't be "cleaned up from the air, water and soil" by any mandate. Mother Nature has a way of doing what she wants without regard to "regulations"...

We've all got a "mess on our hands" and by "we" I mean all of the US, not just those living within a hundred miles of the fire....
 
Just my opinion, but when you look at what's happening in southern California as we speak about it, the pollution being produced by the fires will likely be a greater issue in the next few years than any "clean vehicle mandate" would have resolved...

I'm not just thinking about the smoke/ash from wood burning, but the petroleum, chemicals and asbestos that is being released into the air. That can't be "cleaned up from the air, water and soil" by any mandate. Mother Nature has a way of doing what she wants without regard to "regulations"...

We've all got a "mess on our hands" and by "we" I mean all of the US, not just those living within a hundred miles of the fire....

DW &I were discussing this the other day. Some of those neighborhoods will need to be treated as "toxic super sites" to be cleaned up. It's not just the vehicles with burning, melted rubber, nylon, plastics, aluminum, titanium, and other heavy metals but the content of the homes & businesses.

Nothing inside of a house is "environmentally freiendly" when it burns. From all the foam in furniture to all the electronics in the average home I can't imagine the scope of the ground clean-up.
 
I saw the news a couple days ago. On a side note: fire trucks coming from out of state to help have to stop in Sacramento for a quick “health check”, word is they have to pass current emissions testing before going to the fires and Oregon has/had 4 trucks stuck waiting.
 
I saw the news a couple days ago. On a side note: fire trucks coming from out of state to help have to stop in Sacramento for a quick “health check”, word is they have to pass current emissions testing before going to the fires and Oregon has/had 4 trucks stuck waiting.

I believe this has been fact checked and it falls in the not so true column.
Just because it's on the internet doesn't necessarily make it true.
:popcorn:
 
Good to know. Thanks for clearing that up. I am not on any social media so I only go by what I see on the skewed news and “friends”.
 
Noticed California pulled back on their diesel ban for now….since a large number of rvs are pulled by a diesel tow vehicle or in the case of classs a rvs are powered by them i thought it was relevant…https://calmatters.org/environment/2025/01/trump-california-withdraws-diesel-clean-air-rules/

My personal opinion, based on the fact that my wife and I are current truckers, is that a healthy dose of reality was served. The truth of the matter is that no one in the liberal state of California has the magic wand required to make this happen.

When the ban was first announced many trucking companies stated that they could not meet requirements and therefor either would not make deliveries to California or best case scenario, would drop the shipments in neighboring states.

Those instituting the ban are not and have never been in the trucking industry. They were led to believe that this was a great idea but had no clue as how to actually implement it. I'm sure they were all of the EV mindset that so many bought into and assumed that this would just happen because they simply wished for it to happen. No sense going into details any further on this as many of you already understand the fallacy of it or else you are taking the far left stance and probably already own an electric vehicle.

Either way, if you want goods delivered into California there is a 99% chance it will be delivered by a diesel powered vehicle at some point during the trip. I don't expect this to change anytime in the near future.
 

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