California's Green Dream: Coming to YOUR State!?

Pennsylvania regulators are forcing truck drivers to buy trucks outside Pennsylvania.
The crazy part: they didn’t even make the rules; they were made by California.
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“We have no say, we can’t do anything about it,” says Brian Wanner the owner of Peter Brothers Trucking, “I don’t want to be anything like California.”
But that’s too bad, because Pennsylvania’s Environmental Quality Board decided to automatically copy rules from California.
The newest rules will raise the cost of new trucks by more than $50,000.
The regulators say these rules are important to stop pollution.
That’s dumb, says Wanner, “In 1980, 1 truck produced as much as 60 trucks today.”
“So, we want people to buy new trucks,” I ask?
“You want people to buy new trucks,” responds Wanner. “But if you put these costs on us that we cannot afford, we're going to just run the older trucks.”
That’s something the regulators don’t think about.
In fact, there’s a lot they don’t think about. Their decision hurts truck sellers, won’t stop pollution, could be unconstitutional, and will only get more expensive when California mandates "all electric."
All that and more in the video above.

[@stevessports4717]

Pennsylvania voted for John Fetterman. Nuff Said.

[@The_Ballo]

In their defense, there is no way in Hell I would have voted for the alternative: Oz

[@dmsturgis]

@@The_Ballohe would at least be lucid

[@AdamSternberg]

There is nothing you can do to defend Fetterman a being a better candidate than Oz. Oz was by no means perfect, but on his worst day he would be a better representative of the state than Fetterman on his best day @@The_Ballo

[@SteveJones172pilot]

And that's why primary elections are MORE important than the general.. but they get very little attention or participation. @@The_Ballo

[@fox12129]

I'm from PA, I didn't vote for any of this, nor did many of people I know. The "elected" officials are as legitimate in Pennsylvania as Pedo Biden

[@reckersworld9351]

I was told as a kid that either a flood or earthquake would take out California. Any day now would be great.

[@Weathernerd27]

No the entire state will burn down. The summer wildfires have gotten really bad in recent years which isn't suprising when you consider that the typical summer is 100 degrees with very little to no rain.

[@splinter2121]

sun has a lot of dammage on brains...i see

[@raymondguzman5083]

As a born and raised Californian i second that vote

[@CF542]

No flood or earthquake could do as much damage as the politicians in CA have, along with the mindless voter's who keep them in office.

[@gifthorse3675]

Think about the ocean pollution though

[@CaptainCrunchOwns]

Huge respect to John Stossel for pointing out government waste, fraud, and stupidity all these years.

[@m4c4c0]

Take it from someone who is trying to survive in California; you don't want to be like California. It is absolutely a testing ground for WEF crimes against humanity.

[@radiantsewerrat1987]

Move down south, you’ll be welcome here 😊 Just don’t bring the California politics with you

[@darthhodges]

Regulations instituted without input from the governed is literally why we rebelled against England.

[@jeremytee2919]

No taxation without representation. Were you not allowed to vote? Or are you just really stupid.

[@cujoedaman]

Regulations without a plan in place to fix the issue they're creating is a reason to stop voting for the same people over and over.

[@TheKlamminator]

It's long overdue for our overreaching government to he put in check.

[@visitante-pc5zc]

!!! THIS IS SOCIALISM !!!

[@janetcohen9190]

The concept is meritorious. However rebelling against England is a general narrative often repeated far from being entirly wholesome true. Anyway, what was going on in late 1700s English colonies has vastly been surpassed by USA, along with most of rest of "FREE" western civilisation countries. And continues in plethora ways and means.

[@papasquat355]

"Reimagine" and "transformative" are two of the most dangerous words in their manifesto.

[@raulthepig5821]

They are made up words.

[@spencers4121]

Talk about stupid ass comment, you're literally communicating on a platform that's hugely "transformative". And built in a network "reimagined" from it's intended purpose. And depending on your age didn't even exist, when you were younger.

[@lFunGuyl]

@@spencers4121 Is hate the only language you speak? Those were different times. The Internet was built by capitalist geniuses who were free to create. We are talking here about people using their power to restrict and destroy. Maybe use your brain next time before you call someone names.

[@law7116]

Alignment with California in any way is insanity!

[@jessrumblin]

Insane people flock together

[@tharais]

@@jessrumblin Proven by the more than 126,000 so called "homeless" that live here in CA.

[@joesfamilyfarm]

This is just maddening. Keep getting the word out as to the truth about electric vehicles. We need to stand up to these bureaucrats and put a stop to this nonsense.

[@oldsguy354]

Pennsylvanians are getting exactly what they voted for. If they don't like California style government, quit voting for California style politicians

[@YourMomLivesHere]

The opening salvo: ‘We had no say. We can’t do anything about it!’ Uh I’m sorry but WUT? Yes. Yes you did. You just chose to either vote for these morons with little/no regard for their values/beliefs, or you voted for the other guy but you’re just going to sit here throwing your arms in the air like you just don’t care. Or maybe you didn’t vote. Either way this road bends, you absolutely did have a say, you absolutely did have a choice.

[@gregorymitchell3189]

It’s really not Pa but Philadelphia

[@Heavywall70]

Or stroke victims

[@GinaR21212]

What isn't everybody just go on strike and quit voting for everybody!

[@sciencefaction2646]

@@YourMomLivesHere If you think our crooked 2 party system that George Washington warned us against offers us voters any MEANINGFUL choice, you're 10/10 stupid.

[@twhalen5516]

It’s essentially taxation without representation. Those fools.

[@UnskilledGrappler]

Tea party!

[@andrewalexander9492]

Ummm, BS. Do you even know what those words mean? The decision to adopt California's was made by their elected representatives. You know, like the House of REPRESENTATIVES. That name isn't just a random word, it actually has meaning, that's is their REPRESENTATION, the REPRESENTATIVES that they elected to REPRESENT them. (notice how that word keeps coming up?) Now, if they are unhappy with the decisions their REPRESENTATIVES are making, they should elect different REPRESENTATIVES, but the idea that there is no representation is, we;ll kinda stoooopid.

[@reyray7184]

​@@andrewalexander9492you're stupid if you think any of those people actually represent anyone who "elected" them.

[@remoevans7847]

@@andrewalexander9492You’re assuming those officials were elected by voters when they are actually elected by donors.

[@andrewalexander9492]

@@remoevans7847 Whatever defects there may be in our process of election (and I'm not denying there are defects), ther *is* a process, and there *is* representation. The Phrase "taxation with no representation" comes from the US revolutionary war, and the colonists had, literally, no form of representation in the body which made their laws. Not the same thing.

[@rubenlaracuente8991]

DISGUSTING !! WHAT THEY ARE DOING TO AMERICANS!

[@brew1234567891]

Took the exhaust off my car. 😂 It just makes me feel a little better.

[@wannabecarguy]

As a Californian , I don't blame you for your hate. But PA is less than zero.

[@jerryscantlin6989]

Insane that any state would follow California policies for ANYTHING!! This is why people need to pay attention to who you are voting for.

[@joshuafletcher598]

That’s why I don’t vote they will say anything to get votes

[@sephrus7784]

How any state could actually want to follow California, New York or Illinois is beyond me.

[@johnsutherland168]

All seem to be democrat oriented and usually end up at the bottom of the freedom states rankings. But Pennsylvania was the location where the Constitution was signed in 1787...

[@williammeek4078]

To emulate California’s economic growth?

[@ThatLeaf]

​@@williammeek4078 You mean rapid deterioration of businesses that ultimately close down or run away to other states?

[@jamescalifornia2964]

😒👉 Never underestimate the dumbing-down of society ...

[@williammeek4078]

@@jamescalifornia2964 ya. Just look at who keeps cutting education funding.

[@stanf9070]

I left the communist republic of California in 1992 and I sold my trucking company eight years ago I saw the writing on the wall more rules more regulations every day made up by a bunch of people who have never been in a truck, and know nothing about the industry

[@butteryfriedwizard2219]

It doesn't slow down pollution in the slightest. It just makes trucks unaffordable to new drivers and owner operators, and companies like Swift and Heartland are unaffected.

[@0011peace]

Well if know one can a fford a truck then there will be less on the road in a couple of deacades

[@PreferredCustomer]

It's never a bad thing when government policies help to create monopolies, amiright?

[@canisblack]

"They're smarter than the law makers." That's an incredibly low bar. Like incredibly low.

[@inmate0054]

If electric was better the government wouldn’t have to force people to use it

[@mediocreman2]

Ironically at the expense of taxpayers who have zero say where there money goes.

[@williammeek4078]

They don’t. It is just politicians jumping on the bandwagon so they can pretend they helped make it happen.

[@0011peace]

teh bly way electric would be better tahn fossile fuels is if it wen't nuclear. Then it would be emmissionsf free and plentifiul.. Iwant a Nuclear power plant in my area. Its the only viable alterantive to fossible fuel.

[@williammeek4078]

@@0011peace weird as i already power my house and cars off of off-grid solar. Granted, i live in a fairly sunny place, but if one person can do it, it only gets easier with scale. I am not saying nuclear isn’t an option, it is just one option and the most expensive one at that.

[@user-et3pz5iw7t]

Who do you think built the interstate highway system?

[@ChristopherRyans]

John Stossel is an american hero and legend

[@steveladner4346]

Facts 👍👍👍

[@crystalkaiser1142]

Absolutely .

[@KevinSorbo.]

The same on that sued Vince McMahon after calling a wrestler a fake and getting his ass whooped for it... Yeah some hero

[@crystalkaiser1142]

@@KevinSorbo. Thanks for your negativity it's appreciated.

[@KevinSorbo.]

@@crystalkaiser1142 which words were negative? Thanks for your lies it's appreciated.

[@gabgarcia5446]

Politicians and bureaucrats never face consequences of their acts. They don’t give a crap about the citizens.

[@Smashburn06]

John Stossel needs more credit! He is a true Patriot

[@tonymikolich5873]

The stupidity of people that think they can legislate the climate is beyond hubris and comprehension.

[@reedwright301]

And arrogance.

[@spencers4121]

Because it works, or do you forget the smog problems from decades ago.

[@reedwright301]

@@spencers4121 Smart policy from smart people works. This is not that. This is hubris, arrogance, and short sighted stupidity.

[@tonymikolich5873]

@@spencers4121 ...these idiots cant even run a city. and you think they can control nature? lmfao

[@Zervalin]

​@@spencers4121you didn't watch the whole video

[@woody5109]

Everything in your life has been touched by diesel, everything you own has at one point been transported by a truck, everything.

[@0011peace]

Or a train and e trains used to be deise or desiesle electric

[@cecilianorris4449]

I would love this madness to end. That will be impossible if voters don't have a say. This is madness.

[@r2dad282]

tyranny of the majority. this is the "democracy" the DNC keeps warning will disappear unless you let them continue to spend spend spend.

[@thatguybonds9571]

These politicians are not stupid. They know exactly what they are doing. We cannot let them destroy our easy access food supply.

[@someone890]

So Pennsylvania basically has a "if California jumps off the bridge so do we" law.

[@russellbrown1068]

Brilliant

[@eas-eautocom4871]

They're doing great how's San Fran & LA looking these days. 😆 sad but, degradation to Somalia looking downtowns. Nice 👍. Philly & NYC are doing great also. Keep up with the dumb 💩

[@PreferredCustomer]

Their voters don't want to change between a rock and a hard place. But no one competent is willing or able to run for office anyway. If your choices are consistently between "bad" and "worse," guess which direction you end up heading?

[@GogglesPisano13]

"The government you elect is the government you deserve." - Thomas Jefferson

[@racerx4152]

the problem now is that elections don't matter. they do whatever they want. the media is so out of control, it's a dictatorship.

[@billb3673]

BUT THE SENILE LITTLE GIRL SNIFFER TOO SENILE TO PROSECUTE WAS INSTALLED!

[@armandoacevedo6978]

We have too many politicians/bureaucrats!

[@MilePost106]

Politicians don’t know what reality is out here.

[@jeffpadilla9891]

It’s not the American way but these politicians don’t care about the American way.

[@jameszeveney7148]

The ignorance of government employees never ceases to amaze me. It's second only to the ignorance of many voters.

[@scottjohnson7780]

More regulations and these people are guaranteed job security.

[@freegeorgia4808]

You mean progressive radicals

[@TheGuruStud]

They're getting paid to do it. It's not ignorance and never has been. They have deals, investments and bribes to do this.

[@tgamirov]

It takes a specific set of talents and skills and motivations to get up there.

[@wannabecarguy]

The climate issue has been deemed an emergency, therefore they can justify knee jerk reactions. Which are always failing ideas. Expect more.

[@mudtrucking]

Thank you, John. As a trucker this is doing nothing but hurting our carriers. The cost of new trucks will trickle down on the common driver by lowering the pay per hour to make up for the cost of the trucks on the company itself. 😢

[@timothydurkan]

As a 15 year truck driver... these new rules are absolutely ridiculous. Keep up the good work, John!!!

[@snappertrx]

Why are these politicians allowed to make all these decisions without input from the people? Because we let them, plain and simple.

[@lindawilkinson6912]

Or they simply vote in people like the new Senator. Who are yes men and unqualified.

[@kamakaziozzie3038]

Hello Goodnight

[@tracybarhite1764]

It seems to be unelected bureaucrats making a lot of decisions about our lives.

[@kennethboyer2338]

They're not politicians, they're unelected bureaucrats that aren't che ked by the politicians. Just look at the atf and BS they're able to get away with, same thing.

[@LagrangePoint0]

Because they know people aren't goin to do anything about it.

[@GaryR55]

"...they do not see the consequences of what they do." Exactly. They never do.

[@AtrusOranis]

Well... It's either that they do not see the consequences of what they do. Or they do, and they don't care (or even cheer it on)

[@johnsutherland168]

Or they see the consequences but simply ignore them...

[@GaryR55]

@@johnsutherland168 Yes, which is more likely.

[@jamesford2942]

They need to look carefully at their State Constitution and see if what they are proposing is even constitutional. Make the lawmakers do their job and hold them accountable for the consequences.

[@johnscott5105]

Politicians think they can wave a magic wand and it will just happen. All in the name of looking like a climate hero. Never bothering to address the feasibility or costs.

[@goodolearkygal5746]

How lazy do you have to be to put a rule that automatically changes your states rules to another state. They don't want to do any work at all

[@patrickstewart3446]

It’s almost as if they don’t need the bureaucrats anymore… no more bureaucracy. Now there’s a happy thought.

[@pjeverly]

California didn't vote to ban ICE cars. It was declared by the governor. It wouldn't have passed if he had.

[@Someguy6571]

Doesn't matter because people can just go out of state and buy them.

[@codyaltman29]

@@Someguy6571 many states with future ban on the books specifically bans registration of said cars to prevent that very thing. you can buy from another state, but you will be refused registration.

[@Someguy6571]

@@codyaltman29I mean thats fine. There is still millions of used vehicles around for decades to come.

[@michaeldorosz6446]

AND NOW HE'S TAXING SHORT LINE RAILROADS FOR LOCOMOTVES MORE THEN 23 YEARS OLD!!!!

[@bigdubyuh7901]

how can that even be a law to automatically adopt California laws on commissions if no one even votes on the new law even being proposed? How is that even allowed or legal?

[@prettyridesmedia]

DEA,FBI,IRS,EPA all these agencies need to be rehabilitated

[@stacyteal6221]

I live in Texas, and our electric board is not in Texas. We have got to stop allowing other states to dictate to everyone else, not in their state. Every State has different needs and wants.

[@raywallace1104]

I live in Missouri I have heard that we provide electricity for Texas. There is a wind farm above 20 miles from me that all the electricity goes to Texas

[@stevebabiak6997]

This is quite common due to how electric power grids are interconnected to give them some robustness when some disaster strikes in one area - power can be delivered from the capacity based in other areas. And this is usually only quasi-governmental - the power utilities band together, so unless a power utility is government operated there isn’t much government regulation involved (all utility companies are regulated under the public utility commission or similar government body).

[@debanydoombringer1385]

It depends on where in Texas you live. Most of Texas is on it's own power grid. Remember the big winter storm a few years ago that saw Texas's grid fail?

[@stacyteal6221]

@@stevebabiak6997 remembered it? I lived it and the board that shut down our grid wasn't in Texas.

[@spencers4121]

@@stacyteal6221 If you're on the Ercot grid why does it matter were the board lives? You wanted you're on grid and you got it. They cared more about profits then spending money on infrastructure, which was the issue. Not where the board lived that ordered plants to reduce demand.

[@Iron-Griffon]

At this point, we need to say, "I'm not doing that!" to the government just making unnecessary and costly rules.

[@richardwendt9266]

Yeah, but if you live in a red state, you're median household income will be 12,000$ per year less than blue states. Also, you'll live 3-4 years shorter life, you're less likely to have health insurance, more likely to be obese, and you're 34% more likely to be murdered. From memory, 15/15 worst states for adult obesity are all red states. I suppose it comes down to what's more important. Qaulity of life, or truck costs.

[@HARRYAZZHOLE]

@@richardwendt9266This is satire...correct? If not, you can stay in your blue state.

[@Jamesaepp]

@@richardwendt9266 Are you implying that liberty is some kind of partisan issue?

[@twhalen5516]

@@richardwendt9266 interesting, where did you find the source of that data? I’m not doubting you, I just never knew that. Thanks.

[@tog4867]

​@@richardwendt9266Data source please...

[@WinningThisOne]

I live in MN and our government has set the same "Follow California" policy. They recently mandated all auto sellers in the state stock electric vehicles regardless of demand. Just a random mandate to keep 14,000 EV's on hand at all times. The dealers took them to court and lost. The SCOTUS declined to review the appeal so now the state government gets to force them to sell an item based on morality and not demand.

[@billstetler6769]

What a great report. So glad the truth is being told

[@jimedge8301]

This will continue to happen as long as people keep voting in activists.

[@safffff1000]

Vote frauded in you mean

[@avenger1888]

The reason why people vote for these activists is because they're getting something from them. What these people don't realize when you get something for free they want something from you and that is your freedom. The activist/ state legislature are now gaining to much control. They think their ideas are working for the population but they're not.

[@FifthConcerto]

Activists will keep being voted in so long as there is a monopoly on education via a school mandate and a requirement to send your child to a school where you live. Those two monopolies alone have created a norm for Progressive Socialist schools that see it as their duty to override parents and teach political activism in literally all subject matter from history to reading and mathematics. If you have a kid and you send that kid to a school, more likely than not you have a huge up hill battle to not have that kid coming out a political activist drone for the Progressive Socialists.

[@freegeorgia4808]

Every progressive is a radical

[@Despiser25]

Bureaucrats dont get elected, lol.

[@MountainMan.]

So what do we do to reverse this stuff? Seriously, how to we undo the damage these out of touch people are doing?

[@davidhakadoober._1-]

Can't do much, our elders have robbed us of the freedom and power to do by allowing gun laws to be a thing.

[@williammeek4078]

Vote for representatives that agree with what you want or run yourself. And if you can’t get a politician you agree with or enough people who agree with you, you might want to consider that you are the crazy one.

[@leffakis2032]

John, my town Etna Borough PA, the council recently brought up banning single use plastic bags. It's ridiculous. I'm campaigning against that.

[@TripSix6]

I was a trucker with all these regulations. Soon, there will be nothing to supply stores, etc. Then there will be mass chaos!!!

[@stevebabiak6997]

As a Pennsylvania resident, I thank you for exposing this nonsense. This stuff gets buried such that taxpayers don’t notice it - and then we get stuck with such nonsense. BTW - Pennsylvania building codes are also an adaptation, but of international codes rather than using those from California.

[@vipahman]

The real nonsense here is that the pollution exists. Saying electric trucks cause more pollution because of coal burning electric plants is just kicking the can down the road. We all need to progress and electric trucks are progress. Moving from coal to NG is progress. Moving from NG to renewables is progress. Infrastructure NEVER has an instantaneous solution. It's always a slow creep to the finish line and we will get there.

[@andrewl1884]

​@vipahman yeah more lithium batteries is progress 😂 I'll give you that coal and gasoline may be AS dirty as each other but until we can run on natural gas, nuclear or something else we haven't figured out yet, switching to something that won't make a dent is stupid. and btw China and India make around 75 to 85 percent of all emissions we are around 5 percent. Maybe trying talking to them?

[@groverdeeter6278]

There is no climate change they need to get off of that.

[@Inquisitor6321]

This is ultimately the consequences of who you vote for. If you voted democrat, you likely voted for the politicians who OK this kind of behavior. Elections DO have consequences.

[@carlosrivas1629]

unless trh ultimate goal is to get people to starve because not enough trucks, seriously these bearucats are messing with industry and people's lives.

[@terranaut3314]

Man, copy-pasting regulations is the reason nobody has any faith in the system anymore. The biggest disservice you could make is to not even think.

[@stevebabiak6997]

They aren’t even copying and pasting - because if they did that then the regulations would be frozen until the next copy paste changes are put in. They just use regulation by reference - and as the reference is changed, so do they.

[@Smoove_J]

It's unbelievably lazy. I bet they just didn't feel like writing any laws that day and just headed straight to the bar.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

It's also illegal. Only California can do this because California's CARB predates the EPA regulations. In all other states, the EPA preempts and prevents these regulations (at least until the EPA decides to do the same thing). This is insanity. This is an attack on the energy infrastructure that underpins all of modern civilization. It is not the first time that bad government and bad industrial policy nearly collapsed civilization and killed tens of millions of pelple. China did it during the Great Leap Forward and 40 milluon people died. This banning of the internal combustion enrgine MUST be resisted.

[@PreferredCustomer]

They need to make themselves feel important and justify their pay.

[@ndean1687]

That is absolutely insane! 😠

[@spencerbrown6214]

Thank you John for speaking the truth!!!!!!!! 👍🌎

[@StuartLoria]

Is the environment ideology against human beings?

[@roughneck2204]

It’s literally an anti-human agenda

[@sarahalderman3126]

Of course it is! Nazi’s have always been Evil.

[@TheCarnivoreSoprano]

Bingo!

[@brent4073]

Lefists hate themselves

[@theophilus5132]

The Left sees human beings as a plague on the planet. But they are happy to make money off you through ridiculous fees and taxes on the way to your demise.

[@sdlausen1]

Louisiana just overwhelmingly voted for a Republican Governor. Its a matter of time PA follows the same rout. People are sick and tired of this far left progressive policies.

[@0011peace]

you need more than a governer you need a legislatureas well. InTxas an INdian policy is do the opposite of california

[@Seanmirrer]

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[@steveodeluxe]

Let’s just increase the taxes of the folks that voted these people in

[@stantheman7908]

They're just trading one problem for another one and charging through the nose for it.

[@stevebabiak6997]

And we won’t be able to charge the “solution” they create - not enough electricity supply available to charge all those EVs.

[@sergioortega7640]

So any Large corporations planning on doing business with or in Pennsylvania beware.

[@freewillfarms2059]

Government protecting big businesses 😢

[@theexpendables2773]

Most regulations protect big business. Why else do you think big corporations lobby for more regulations in their industry?

[@dominick253]

I love it when people have never done my job or even thought about it are in control of it completely. 😂😂😂

[@Androth12]

I think it’s safe to say, nothing good comes out of California.

[@princessmarlena1359]

It used to be good, once…until the ‘60s or so.

[@allblooz]

If you think it’s bad now just imagine how bad it will be when Governor Hair Gel is elected president.

[@princessmarlena1359]

@@allblooz 😱 “Nooooo!”

[@ramauthority]

Thank you for covering this!

[@vxe6vxe6]

Washington State says "Hold my beer"...

[@Das_Beachy]

These issues are exactly why the electoral college exists. It keeps the few highly populated cities dictating the governance of the entire country when those cities do not understand or reject the lives and needs of everyone else.

[@ShawnPatton-rm2hv]

Should it matter anymore since we have a global environment and can travel anywhere in the country within hours and communicate with anyone that we want?

[@scottleggejr]

​@@ShawnPatton-rm2hvyes because I don't catch wild lobsters in Arizona and you likely don't share a border with Mexico.

[@ShawnPatton-rm2hv]

@@scottleggejr but we know that other coastal areas could impact lobster populations and I bet that restaurants in Arizona serve lobster to customers. I doubt that it was uncommon for lobsters to be shipped to Arizona until post WWII. New York does indeed have tens of thousands of immigrants from our southern border.

[@ShawnPatton-rm2hv]

I meant that it was uncommon for lobster to be shipped to restaurants/super markets.

[@Existntlangst]

It's like the warning about the corrupt bureaucrats in Atlas Shrugged is slowly coming true

[@raulthepig5821]

Great book. It told of the future just like the book 1984.

[@NotEvenDeathCanSaveU]

Slowly? We're slowly there for generations already lol. Not to mention USA is governed and owned by foreign influences anyway, everything they do is anti-american these days.

[@ianandrews6890]

"...and California dreamin' is becoming a reality..."

[@erikbenko]

Michigan is trying to pass the most extreme energy policy in the country, and they are taking away local zoning authority so they can site industrial wind turbines and solar next to our homes. Please help bring awareness to our fight here.

[@princessmarlena1359]

Michigan hardly gets any sunlight, or hope for that matter. Who are they kidding, putting in solar energy? 🤣 Seriously though, good luck to you and keep up the good fight.

[@yodaflyz]

Don't blame me, I voted Tudor Dixon.

[@williammeek4078]

@@princessmarlena1359it would be good in the summer if not winter.

[@williammeek4078]

What is the problem exactly? You don’t like other people having the right to do with their own property as they wish?

[@0011peace]

Move to indiana and leave teh liberal politcs in michigan

[@theamerican7080]

California may as well be a foreign country at this point- one that I'll no longer do business in.

[@deplorabledeadhead2580]

Thank You, Mr. Stossel!

[@BobTheBald2]

What?? I'm from Pa, and I never heard of that law, going to contact my congressmen tomorrow.

[@MrSuperchargeron]

Time to get these people out. They are making us all poor.

[@patrickl9930]

Blackrock and Vanguard are making you poor

[@gifthorse3675]

Repeal the 19A

[@paladinsix9285]

The vast majority of laws, regulations, and edicts are Intended to make the majority of US poor! "You will own Nothing, eat bugs 🐛 and 'like' it." Klaus von Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum.

[@dedomv11]

Everything is already so much more expensive in California. Now you're going to pay $25 for a hamburger in $18 for fries because it cost so much to run the supplies to the stores.

[@yodaflyz]

Elon Musk moved to Texas & people fallowed him.

[@penelope8557]

I'm grateful for your honesty. Thank you.

[@titsmcgee8885]

I was a tow boater in the Chicago burbs. Everyday we took 6 barges of coal from Romeoville IL to Chicago. 12 hr trip. Which powered 40% of Chicago’s electricity.

[@johns7734]

A friend of mine sold trucks in NJ. He was telling me that years ago, NJ decided that they were losing money from not charging sales tax on trucks. When they started charging sales tax, every one just drove 10 to 50 miles to PA and bought trucks for 6% less. NJ truck sales went to zero and he was almost out of business. NJ saw zero extra tax income.

[@Punisher1830]

But trucks pollute our air, they damage our roads, also the truck drivers like throwing their piss bottles outside on the ground when they can just use the bathroom like everyone else.

[@johns7734]

@@Punisher1830 All of which has nothing to do with how or where trucks are bought or sold. You could have the government ban trucks, but then you would have to complain to the same government that you can't buy the necessities of life. There are plenty of examples of how many millions of people die when socialist or communist governments destroy the free market system.

[@johns7734]

@@Punisher1830 By the way, I don't disagree about the piss bottles. Gross!

[@PreferredCustomer]

Trucks are a necessity since all the goods and services have to get *somewhere.* We don't have more oil pipelines, we cry foul at air freight due to pollution, and freight trains are run by a few companies that have to pay to upkeep their own rail lines (deincentivizing them from building more). So, more trucks it is.

[@Punisher1830]

@@johns7734 but y cant they just use the bathroom like every1 else instead of throwing their pee bottles on the road?

[@jamesdrake2378]

I regularly donate to PLF. They fight these unelected bureaucrats making this regulations.

[@sonnypruitt6639]

What's PLF?

[@rkanava7245]

​@@sonnypruitt6639Pacific legal foundation, interviewed at 2:10

[@kevinbarr9933]

The problem with "Green Dream" biggest problem in history is when Keystone XL and all Energy projects denied in turn to rely on Saudi Oil and now Middle East is in War! We missed the Chance of North American Energy Independence and instead chewed the Oil reserves and rely on Middle East Oil! What I would like to see you cover is the Rise in Oil prices that could hit new record highs and our Missed chance (Keystone XL and other projects) at Energy Independence? It would be a fantastic topic to cover!

[@huneebee6113]

I agree.

[@MoonCatching]

It’s happening in Texas as we speak and we need to wake up!

[@dextermcgrubbin]

"They do not see the consequences of what they're doing."

[@jmfa57]

I live in California and I enforce air pollution rules for my living. The regulations have gone far beyond what is needed and have become utterly ridiculous. I look forward to retiring and leaving this crazy state.

[@spencers4121]

Bet you enjoy that smog free air though.

[@rbenzio]

Smog free, not. When the fires start, it gets worse.

[@JohnSmith-dh4gw]

Maybe you can pull up my reply from about an hour ago. I've been there, done that.

[@AkioWasRight]

@@spencers4121 California has tons of smog. Due to regulations, it might no longer be the heavy, dark smog that would cloud the skies like 50 years ago, but that doesn't mean there isn't smog. Most smog now in California is clear smog, which actually worse than the heavy industrial smog people think of. Clear smog remains in the air and is highly cancerous because it's made up of smaller, tissue penetrating particles.

[@erniefrijole2618]

CARB is full of idiots. Cracker Jack degreed morons cooking up junk science statistics like premature deaths due to diesel exhaust. But in San Diego County where I used to live you can burn 🔥 as much firewood in your fireplace as you want!?

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

This is going to kill a lot of small-town truckers, my uncle and father used to be an interstate chauffeurs, its the same BS as when Uber came out, now they cannot even the proper retirement fees,

[@drewshubeck3000]

Tell the politicians in PA they are fired!

[@rof8200]

The regulators are going to make their constituents suffer.

[@davidtaylor4053]

Suffer until they submit.

[@williammeek4078]

No, it will save businesses money.

[@AkioWasRight]

@@williammeek4078 No, it won't save them. They're are requiring electrification. Electric trucks are anywhere from $50k-$150k more expensive upfront, and electricty isn't getting any cheaper (CA is already paying $0.70+ per kWh). Then there's just the fact that these trucks simply cannot do as much. They have less payload and significantly less range, and the trucks can take hours charge. This will impact the productivity of any trucking company, increasing the cost to provide their services.

[@williammeek4078]

@@AkioWasRight are you saying electricity is $0.70/kWh in your state? Have you looked at the price of fuel in California? Tesla semi recently went 1000 miles in 24 hours. Pepsi is very happy with Semi’s performance carrying around beverages. EV trucks are better, plain and simple.

[@AkioWasRight]

@@williammeek4078 Yeah, diesel is cheaper, even at the artificially inflated price of $6.00/gallon in CA. At $0.74/kWh, it would cost about $740 to charge a 1,000 kWh, 400-500 mile range electric semi. For the same money, a diesel truck can be fueled and give you 2x the range. Of course, $0.74 isn't the year round commercial rate for power. But then again, $6.00 a gallon isn't the typical price truckers pay for diesel, as they have fleet contracts or can buy fuel out of state for 1/2 the cost on average. Also, 1000 miles in 24 hours is an average of ~41.6 mph. That's anywhere from 15-35 mph less than your typical interstate speed. For 1,000 miles in 24 hours, that's a lot of charging time. Also, I don't drink Pepsi, so I don't care what they think.

[@battshytkrazy156]

UNDERRATED channel

[@fehlrock]

John Stossel has been The Man for 30 + years !

[@albertdavila118]

Love you since I was a kid in the 80’s

[@GK-mr9ko]

Where is that tax revenue going to go? The state parks? Doubt it🙄

[@g.zoltan]

It might go to the parks. To finance $2M toilets.

[@riftvallance2087]

Probably up some officials nose

[@mustangracer5124]

The state 'pockets' is wayyyyy more like it.

[@truck655am]

Florida National Forest aren't free anymore and camping is too costly to relax away from the city.

[@mattdillon4398]

I wonder that as well. They are constantly complaining about a shortage of money to fix roads so they just raised our registrations AGAIN for the 5 th time in the last 7 years. The annual registration for my heavy truck has increased $800 over just the past 6 years and they are now talking about adding a mileage tax at .08 cents per mile. So if I run 100,000 miles a year I'll have to pay an extra $8000 a year in tax! On top of all the other taxes we pay the federal heavy road use tax, fuel tax to both the state and fed and FET tax on tires. All this is before the tax on our income. We are now required to get biennial physicals(or immediately lose our license) and we are subject to a blood alcohol content that is HALF the legal limit for everyone else even when we are off duty in our own car! That's less than one beer! We now have to keep logs of all of our hours, mileage and fuel consumption too and report them. We are forced to be part of a consortium and pay for random drug testing and when called we have to stop whatever we are doing, take off work and go in within 2 days. This has all happened only within the last 15 years. Before that, none of these laws existed except for the fuel tax.

[@jasonl9757]

This is what happens when a state turns blue.

[@AdvancedUSA]

Any government that wants to use California as a model should take a look at what’s going on there.

[@century2298]

"The regulators don't think about that." - The regulators don't think AT ALL !

[@davidflint12]

I’m a lifelong resident of CA. Best advice: do the exact opposite of anything we do here. Your life will be better

[@mustangracer5124]

That hole has 6,000,000 useless 'government regulators' ..

[@robertmckay621]

As someone who works in the industry, I've seen what happens when government is involved. The emission standards of semi trucks was changed in 2002, 2007, 2010, 2014 and 2017. The end result, trucks became more expensive and companies ran older trucks.

[@racerx4152]

and older trucks probably put out more pollutants. LOL.

[@PreferredCustomer]

And stagnating innovation. Meanwhile, the market if left alone would have encouraged more efficient vehicles since owners would prefer those models for their businesses.

[@mustang607]

Imagine your state being yoked to California.

[@woodsman105]

The trucking company I work for considered purchasing electric trucks. We run dedicated loads for various retailers around the country. As such, we have a lot of loads which fall under the advetised 500 mile limit for batteries. However, we also run two shifts of drivers. There's not enough hours in the day for us to charge trucks and run them long enough to pay for them. The idea of buying electric was quickly scrapped.

[@linwizz2126]

They would need charging at the loading docks or swappable batteries for it to work.

[@sferg9582]

It's about time that legislators take an I.Q. test before running for office.

[@mattrowan2680]

I have always maintained that my fifth grade class knew more about the U.S. Constitution than 85% of the Demorat party. And yes, no person should be allowed to run for any federal, state or local government office with passing a written test on the various Constitutions affecting the position they are seeking. It is truly a disgusting spectacle to see these ignorant people making laws that affect all of us. Disgusting.

[@Despiser25]

It is time our Govt was brought back down to size. It has no business pushing this cult of climate change. If the climate were in an actual crisis we could all see it. That ONLY the Marxists can see it and the only solution is more Marxism is the TELL...

[@user-et3pz5iw7t]

I would love to see the results of Trump's IQ test. That guy is not bright.

[@cg1288]

I think that solution is more a matter of voters taking an IQ test. Plus, if you haven't been employed in the past 3yrs or get back more in EITC than you pay in taxes, you cannot vote.

[@honestamerican368]

​@@user-et3pz5iw7tnor are you.

[@Kertgaferg]

This is what happens when the people making the decisions don't actually have to adhere to the decisions.

[@brent4073]

Its taking us back to fiefdom with royalty and peasants. Rules for thy but not for me!

[@Samlol23_drrich]

The "we" is the problem. Handouts pushed by one party in particular allowed "they" to outnumber and outvote "we"

[@johnsutherland168]

Or abide by the law set up by the Constitution either...

[@rogermhchan6395]

CORRECT!

[@user-et3pz5iw7t]

Mastriano lost because he's an authoritarian election denier. I think these MAGA extremists think others like this stuff. They couldn't be more wrong. It's like kryptonite to anyone outside the Trump cult.

[@billkittleman9631]

Even NASCAR’s going plugs 😂🔌

[@notmuch_23]

The thing is that a lot of politicians _don't_ thingL they feel.

[@chaserohwedder8852]

Stossel should do a story on California’s massive state deficit. 🤣 they’re billions in the hole.

[@sflasaint811]

And Gavin thinks people want him as President ??

[@spencers4121]

Every state is in the hole what's your point, California also has the GDP to account for it. In fact when you compare the two maps, across all states they line up.

[@xenn4985]

​@@spencers4121what a load of cope

[@mediocreman2]

I love it when Californians tout their huge economy. Who cares about the size of your economy if you run the entire state into the ground?

[@yodaflyz]

​@@spencers4121Last I knew people where leaving California for Texas & taking there money with them.

[@johnsamson9889]

I'm so glad I left PA many years ago. This stupidity has metastasized and is now nearly impossible to expel. The corruption is thorough from local levels right through to the top. Thanks for the show John.

[@autumnsun7379]

I moved back to Ohio a little over two years ago. Best thing I have done!!!!

[@medic1937]

It's the same nonsense here in California

[@bills5009]

@@autumnsun7379 I'm thinking of doing the same thing...

[@katiek.8808]

@@autumnsun7379😂😂😂😂

[@katiek.8808]

@@bills5009I’ve looked and there is no where else to go. Pa really is the low key best option. Our republicans hold the progressives at bay for most nonsense. If they didn’t win the governor spot all the time they would have nothing.