EPA Approves California Rules Phasing Out Diesel Trucks

The clock is now ticking on big gas-powered trucks in California. The state announced a new deadline for half of all heavy trucks to go electric. Scott Budman reports.
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[@ItsEricAZ]

How is California going to deal with this huge increase in electric power demand when their grid can't handle things now during heat waves or fire season?

[@williamryan9195]

They can't.

[@fsdpro5461]

Most likely will invest more than they already do in solid state LFP battery storage for power to charge during off peak and dispense power during peak demand

[@middleguy1776]

​@@fsdpro5461there isn't enough solar or wind to power the state now and only 34% of our electricity comes from renewable energy. How will California be able to quadruple output in 10 years?

[@middleguy1776]

@@imd1b4u you do know we purchase power from other states at premium rates because we don't produce enough in state? How is going all electric vehicles going to help produce more electricity? Especially without fossil fuels?

[@middleguy1776]

@@imd1b4u the bay area

[@liberty-matrix]

"We took paradise and turned it into hell. It was very hard to destroy California, it's got huge amounts of timber minerals, oil, natural gas. So it was very hard to destroy that inheritance but we did. We have the highest gasoline process in the United States. We have almost half of the nation's homeless people. We have one-third of the nation welfare recipients. We have the highest income tax, it's sad." ~Victor Davis Hanson

[@sshmuckatelli]

Apparently it wasn’t very hard at all.

[@gimmeyourmoney8022]

Half the trucks must be electric,lol. Half the store shelves will be empty too.

[@smoothoperator1083]

Exactly. Just wait till everyone wants to order their rainbow flags and it takes 4 years to get it to there house in California. Because no truck driver can afford 1 of these trucks.

[@gimmeyourmoney8022]

@@smoothoperator1083 Yep, plus an old power grid, and unaffordable utilities to boot.

[@smoothoperator1083]

@@gimmeyourmoney8022 Yes sir then there is the power grid from the year 1920! Hey but Ukraine is funded 100% and America is last.

[@frankarmendariz9558]

👍👍

[@tommurphy4307]

that only means more and more of them will be registered outside the state.

[@jaguargirl5747]

This will be interesting. I am from Europe so we have experience with such infrastructure. Prepare for electric powerouts in many areas. Good luck.

[@tommurphy4307]

just keep mopping your showroom floors and everythings gonna be all right

[@georgesenda1952]

This is absolutely idiotic. Much of air pollution in California does NOT come from California but from across the ocean from India and China and much of that pollution settles in the valleys around Stockton, Modesto and other cities in the growing areas. Gavin Newsom had to tell people in the state NOT to charge their EV vehicles when the state had brownouts last year and the power has gone out several times already this year in Martinez, Ca. where I live and a number of towns and cities in this area have seen power go out for DAYS brcause P G & E cannot repair above and below ground power lines because of the unprecedented and record rain and snow storms we have had in Northern California and also in the rest of the state and parts of Nevada served by either P G & E or Nevada power. AND what will the ecofreaks in Sacramento and our legislature do if we get more massive wildfires that take out power poles, lines, transmission stations and transformers or a major earthquake or even a tsunami occurs and knocks out power for days, weeks or months ? They do these green rules, regulations and laws to pander to their far leftist base while never thinking of the economic and social cost of their decisions. Like banning internal combustion cars, gas ranges, ovens, and water heaters and now diesel trucks. With no way to replace them easily or cheaply and some homes, restaurants and buildings were built to run on gas and are old and cannot be retrofitted. AND TAANSTAFL still applies. ( There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch - Robert Heinlein ). The power has to come from somewhere and if you ban natural gas and coal and nuclear as many in this state and elsewhere want, wind power, solar, geothermal and hydroelectric power will not be able to make up for the loss of power generation and we will see massive brownouts and blackouts all over the US if this green and politically correct insanity is allowed to continue. But the majority of people who vote in this state vote Democratic and the majority of our state and city and county officials are leftists or those who pander to every leftist pressure group so nothing will change here until some people wake up and realize that their government keeps TELLING people HOW to run their lives in the name of disease, pandemics, air pollution or whatever idea is trendy to a vocal minority of people group at any given time. Common sense does not prevail and won't until the people who care are forced to leave the state forever to find places that don't enact insane laws. And finally the cost of all of this change will not come from truck manufacturers. It will be inevitably passed down to the consumer of goods and services no matter where they live in California and if these laws are not enacted elsewhere then trucking companies may decide it is not worth the cost in the short run to DELIVER goods and manufactured items to California and stop doing business here. It is up to everyone in the country to tell their government leaders to stop this kind of control over how people live. Whether or not they will have the courage to do so without being personally attacked by the pressure groups remains to be seen. But we are on the slippery slope to government control of all of our lives and it needs to be stopped NOW.

[@tommurphy4307]

..and heaDS STRAIGHT FOR modesto and stockton- brilliant comment

[@NerdyRed23]

I so hate Gavin Nuisance

[@benrodriques]

Yeah. Like I say, what happens to all those ev people's when tge power goes out. How are you all going to survive ?

[@erich84502b]

They tried to 15 years ago. They have Amazon CNG trucks. Don't get me started on the fact that natural gas plants are being phased out. They don't want nuclear because of Fukushima. No more coal. Wind and solar won't be enough. Hydroelectric energy won't be enough because it requires more dams reservoirs. They don't want water storage because the water quality is lower and it's bad for the fish

[@tommurphy4307]

were so lucky to have you here telling us what 'they' want

[@SOLIDSNAKE.]

So are they trying to kill us

[@frankarmendariz9558]

Trucking companies & truckers need to boycott CA

[@tommurphy4307]

@jusbreath YOURE RIGHT- DON'T BOTHER COMING HERE....

[@NerdyRed23]

I agree to that @frankarmendariz9558

[@jonshukur7733]

My diesel truck identifies itself as an electric truck. So I'm good 😂

[@marvnuts]

How does CA expect out of state goods to be trucked into the state? There will be less diesel stations so the truckers can't gas up.

[@beau0718]

Now power plants get a turn to pollute more to make up the difference.

[@fsdpro5461]

Even if running on coal. The coal plant would probably be hundreds of miles away. Therefore you wouldn’t have to breathe the dirty air in congested cities. Electricity can easily be transported with no degradation wherever it comes from

[@beau0718]

@@fsdpro5461 The infrastructure money was stolen by Dems/Bidens and investedin EV. Why do you think they force this crap on the American people? They need a pay out before it comes to light just like every other crooked bull shit they have been up to for the last 20 years. They have caused all the crap we have been dealing with.

[@devengudinas1649]

Not tru at all

[@beau0718]

@@devengudinas1649 How do you know?

[@RandomNPC001]

@@fsdpro5461 ​ apparently you don’t know how batteries are made and how big the footprint is! Not even going to mention the discarded batteries and the chemicals it leaks into the ground.

[@damiangutierrez9103]

Professor's from Stanford University said that charging EVs every night will be too much for our power grid to handle.

[@tommurphy4307]

how the hell would THEY know?

[@moabman6803]

Maybe thet deduced it from noticing the current power outages.

[@yunggolem4687]

@@tommurphy4307 By getting the data from the power companies.

[@steveh7108]

​@@tommurphy4307it's called Simple Math. Maybe you should try it.

[@elninorata3891]

New Report Shows Push for Electric vehicles Is Actually Killing Rainforests

[@kyshac81]

So expect the cost of goods and services to skyrocket. Because of increased cost of electricity.

[@bboytwisty]

Don’t forget power outage then there will be delay for deliveries

[@MrPurplemilkshake]

California really said “The cartels are fine because we profit from them, but diesel trucks gotta go” 🤡

[@myobmyob2215]

So cute when kids read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle and think they can wave a wand and return to the pre-industrial age

[@tommurphy4307]

you found some kids who can READ??

[@mobilemoke]

I ll check back with you in 11 years.....when I live in another state!

[@smoothoperator1083]

😂

[@tommurphy4307]

say 'hi' to my ex-neighbors.... you know the ones pushing all your prices upward.

[@smoothoperator1083]

@@tommurphy4307 Stop collecting welfare Tom and you won't have that problem!

[@CaptainAmerica-ve7cd]

THERE IS NOT 🚫 ENOUGH INFRASTRUCTURE/CHARGING STATIONS FOR THIS ! YALL ARE NOT THINKING

[@PhuongBui-bg8zh]

YES, THEY THINK HOW TO DUMP CALI

[@Living_Despite]

Riiiiight, so when the power grid goes down everyone will be screwed. Time to leave California.

[@SeeTheWholeTruth]

LOL... The california led stuff never fails to make me laugh. The most epic of reverse reality ANYWHERE in the world! EVERYTIME! So funny.

[@jimmyfleetwood1118]

Yep, lead the state off the cliff. Sadly, it's not funny.

[@tommurphy4307]

YEAH IT SUCKS HERE go to fla on your next vacay

[@steveh7108]

I guess people don't realize that many of the over-the-road truck drivers can refuse loads places they don't want to go. My last trip to California was over 15 years ago when I sat in the truck stop waiting for a load out of there ( your truck is your home and you live in there for days on end ) and I sat there and watched the police department ticketing trucks for idling ( you need power for air conditioning and to sleep and live ) while the cops had several their own vehicles in the parking lot idling the whole time because they wanted their air conditioners to stay nice and cold. Meanwhile the Hypocrites walked around and handed out tickets left and right all afternoon.

[@carlosavila7635]

California so stupid imagine how many trucks will need to be charged and you need to set up all these charging stations for the trucks . These ev trucks waist more electricity going up hills while towing 80000 lbs

[@tommurphy4307]

you got an 'A' in physics....

[@moabman6803]

In my city we have EV city buses. They need 2 buses to replace 1 diesel bus. A EV bus cost 3 times as much as a diesel bus.

[@middleguy1776]

California will not be out stupided

[@strongmermaid4651]

😂

[@tommurphy4307]

your words...

[@randalldemichel4818]

Interstate trucks are Federally regulated because they are interstate commercial vehicles essential to our economy and National security. They are already designated and decaled as clean vehicles.

[@miketexas4549]

And just how are they going to power rigs to get food distributed all over the state? California has gone completely insane, suicidal!

[@1ChristFollowingNerd]

Wow this is some Venezuela or great reset kind of stuff. Newsom has done nothing to boost or strengthen the power grid but he & others keep exponentially increasing the demand upon it. The result is going to be bad bad bad & them forcing us along to get there will be extremely painful

[@nebraskaguy2768]

Good. It just means Texas can become even bigger as the distributor of goods. They can't build the warehouses fast enough. Oh yeah ,when California runs out of products tough!

[@Bgh192007]

As a driver I think it’s going to take longer than 11 years

[@leotapia6617]

How about local route trucks go electric and the others that do long range stay diesel until they come up with the infrastructure and range and speed to recharge with diesel

[@devinrobinsonx4442]

Diesel was once a popular challenge to pollution

[@yunggolem4687]

With the right fuel, compression ignition engines like the Diesel are extremely efficient and low emission... but the electrical grid is extremely centralized and centralization is key to allowing a tiny minority to maintain control over a population.

[@dannjrad2109]

The Californian gov. just loves to screw over owner operators 😮‍💨

[@ovniusa15]

This is what is gonna drive up prices on everything

[@beau0718]

They don't think first. Californians remember.

[@frankfgsr]

ALL PIE IN THE SKY NONSENSE , DUE TO SHORTAGE OF ELECTRICITY GET READY FOR BROWNOUTS

[@coldfinger459sub0]

And what kind of fuel is being used to generate all this electricity that we’re going to have to switch over to to charge vehicles and electric stoves, an electric water heaters and electric dryers?. Gas ? Coal ? Oil ? Here in California sure in the hell is not coming from wind ?, solar ? water (Hydro) . And what archaic faulty electric grid is going to deliver all this power that’s constantly failing and Hass to be shut down in the summertime and Highwinds ?

[@tommurphy4307]

nuclear fusion- you forgot that one

[@coldfinger459sub0]

@@tommurphy4307 that’s not happening in my lifetime or even my grandchildren’s. We are a long, long ways from nuclear fusion..

[@richardjeun]

I wonder how much stress this will put on our grid, especially Los Angeles 4kv primary voltage.

[@markparker4032]

Sure it's going to help the lower income folks.........help them out of their money. This is going to cost a fortune.

[@bobbritten5673]

There is technology available to day to reduce pollution on diesel engines by 90 percent ,and on petrol engines by 50 percent reduction,this technology has been around for some years now,it has federal government accredited in the U.S ,this was done about 15 years ago ,and complies to E.U.R.O. 6 pollution STD

[@phil1657]

This is completely ludacris. Going after an industry of a mobile precept, instead of taxing or fining businesses that leave their doors open in adverse weather. I.e. if you're thermostat is set to 75 and the temperature does not reach 60. Or people using laundromats like it is their personal veranda

[@tommurphy4307]

those kingpins hanging out at the laundromats.....

[@fastmail55]

What's the next target? Diesel locomotives?

[@thegame213la]

Our groceries and products sold in California price is going to go up by X10

[@arthurfleck1554]

They will be powered by rainbow-coloured-unicorn farts!

[@nflores5433]

"An Emp hit, we dont know what happened!"

[@lusa3002]

I am saving some popcorn for that day...😆

[@steveh7108]

If my house is on fire I sure hope it's not an electric fire truck that comes to put it out. I wonder how many fires will get out of control because electric vehicles we're not prepared for the task at hand.

[@propblast82nd]

Good luck with paying for this

[@jesusaguilar3381]

True, California is a pain in the A$$ lider

[@kelleydavis1228]

Drop freight at the state line and let them figure it out. Do NOT relent! No one buying what they're selling... hope you can eat those electric vehicles, manufacturers!

[@coryament]

the Pelosi's are getting rich

[@tommurphy4307]

where's that nancy-boy??

[@mobilemoke]

I am so glad this is gonna be paid with Grants money, for a second I thought they may be crazy and use taxpayers funds 😮🎉

[@smoothoperator1083]

Don't hold your breath bud. It is around the corner in TAXIFORNIA!

[@TiredAmerican247]

The sarcasm is real

[@JasonBoyce]

Yeah crazy how California uses taxpayer money to improve the lives of taxpayers. They should be more like red states where they use taxpayer money to build volleyball arenas for private colleges instead.

[@adel19997]

Is practically the same thing, using tax payers 🤑

[@rondean2733]

Grant money, is tax payer money!

[@robertbolding4182]

Load of Pepsi goes 100 miles. I would not worry about out-of-state deliveries

[@willmont8258]

Why is this TV station cheerleading for this unrealistic mandate? Why no tough questions about where the power will come from to charge all these trucks?

[@GoGoDash]

ah yes the state where you can mod your gender but not your vehicle

[@Kyontheotakugamer]

hoping that state gets to sink in the ocean

[@jbagger331]

So back to using horses to trasnsport goods then?

[@robertbolding4182]

Makes no sense if half works why not all.

[@damianrodriguez5907]

If big companies in California that make millions of dollars a year can get funded for new eletrical trucks small business can too. I am small owner operator local trucker in California and hopefully I can get funded by newsom for a new fleet

[@willmont8258]

I don't think you will get anything from Newsom except higher costs and higher taxes.

[@acethedriver2895]

Newsom needs to stepdown from office.

[@bucketheadrox]

And yall gone buy them these damn trucks?

[@10000years]

Power cuts & high prices of goods, well done

[@bodyworkbywayne]

Truckers should all stick together and stop all trucking in California immediately. See how they can live without trucks.

[@moronews2582]

Washington State should cut electric power it sends to California, they never have paid their bill!

[@tonygarrett9115]

I can care less. I don't take my truck into California that much anymore. Do yall really think getting Rid of gas and diesel is going to solve the problem 🤔. Hahaha. Whatever.

[@tommurphy4307]

thank you

[@davidlemay4761]

The trucking companies should just stop doing business in California.😮

[@strongmermaid4651]

China is so proud of CA

[@tcobuttsmellystench3236]

these city people sitting at CA city hall have no idea running sitting on those city munincipal city hall desks. While Jet airplanes eating 170 gallons in one hour!!!!!!!!! Rich get rich.

[@davidlemay4761]

Hollywood can just live on beans and rice.😢

[@josephnash8927]

This is a huge disaster.

[@realnapster1522]

They shouldn’t ban old trucks. Instead provide incentive to convert to EVs. You can’t regulate your way out of problems. Gov shouldn’t decide what consumer can and can’t do.

[@tommurphy4307]

pull your head out of there- we already have such incentives....

[@moabman6803]

That's difficult because you have to use non factory components. So if you convert a truck, will the non factory components be supported when 5 to 10 years old? Evs are like computers. Ever try to get support for a older computer?

[@erich84502a]

Buses too

[@chriswegman738]

That will be California's problem.

[@Groudon22759]

So register out of state lol

[@sshmuckatelli]

😂😂😂 ya sure. Trucks are racist!

[@brentkuehne435]

😂 SAVE DEMOCRACY!

[@MelonHead887]

CA: The very rich and the very poor. An arid desert in between.

[@dkleath8697]

No comment.

[@bucketheadrox]

Lol diesel and gas 2 different things

[@clarencewhite3126]

It coming from the taxpayers in California

[@sshmuckatelli]

I hope truck companies boycott CA. Now what, boom!

[@roscoejohnson1183]

Independent drivers need to stay out of this state keep on using diesel

[@raulbarragan6748]

Not doable trust me won’t work give it 20 years

[@DirectX3]

Phasing out the truck drivers too please

[@chriswegman738]

Do you plan on growing your own food?

[@smoothoperator1083]

​@@chriswegman738 😂

[@smoothoperator1083]

Why? Let me guess , you're a bum who hasn't worked ever. And collects a welfare check, right?

[@mariehod4767]

we could all be dead in 10 to 11 for all we know

[@devengudinas1649]

Yup. Tomorrow is no Guarantee

[@KyleTipton.]

Just let the next fire take the state. God, that place is trash, and it keeps blowing into other states, making life miserable for the rest of us..

[@andrebrown4669]

Time to switch

[@jeancadet5862]

is not going to work 🎉🎉

[@martykimble9999]

GMAFB

[@robertbolding4182]

Offshore wind could easily power and electric car for everyone in California. Don't think I'm joking.

[@mercenairy1]

IS IT OK THAT THE OCEAN WIND FARMS ARE KILLING ENDANGERED WHALES THAT WE BEEN TRYING TO SAVE FROM EXTINCTION FOR YEARS?

[@tommurphy4307]

hot wheels sizzlers don't count

[@moabman6803]

You want to run power cables under the ocean? How much will that cost?

[@bighorn9119]

Baddddd

[@gassmark]

🤐🤐🤐

[@jillbelas7266]

I am so proud of you Cali!!! Leading the way for every other state to follow!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@smoothoperator1083]

Just wait until you want to order your rainbow flag and it takes 3 years to get to your house because no one can afford to buy an electric semi-truck!✔️👍🤡

[@danielbrown7535]

😂....oh I mean....😂😂😂....get your groceries how?... OH ELECTRIC....OK ...RELIABLE POWER IN CALI

[@Wolfcamp555]

A few states might. Most won't.

[@tommurphy4307]

@@smoothoperator1083 are you like the truck-purchase czar??

[@smoothoperator1083]

@@tommurphy4307 Nope! Just a regular American that has common and logical sense. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out the disaster that this will have!💯

[@gregspeth7910]

Tesla makes trucks

[@jeancadet5862]

😂😂😂😂

[@gregbennett4254]

More climate B S

[@M62TUB44_V8]

California boycott

[@julial3758]

MORE SOLAR PANELS ON ALL ROOFTOPS!!

[@soniaaggarwal7066]

buy chinese truck its cheaper, long range , more cargo carrying capacity.

[@kylekyle7386]

And will only last 1 day. Remember, 'made in china' means, 'made of garbage'.

[@jimmyfleetwood1118]

And first load of cr*p is included when you pick it up in China! FYI--capacity isn't dictated by the truck, it's by the given state's load limits. In Ca, it might be 1/2 empty at 80K pounds, and you still can't add more.

[@tommurphy4307]

and non-conforming to our safety requirements

[@quesadilla79]

California always leading the way🎉

[@bob-qi4nr]

Yeah, Straight to hell

[@tommurphy4307]

youre welcome

[@willmont8258]

Off a cliff.

[@kaseymann2103]

Let me know how that goes