'People Are Going To Go Out Of Business': Doug LaMalfa Grills CARB Exec Over New Regulation

During a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing, Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) questioned witnesses about the California Air Resources Board's new locomotive regulations.
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[@gregorymalchuk272]

"Dirty" internal combustion engines raised the average lifespan from 35 to 79 and still rising.

[@gsleatherworks2442]

There is nothing more dangerous than a non-elected agency dictating business decisions. They have zero accountability and even less knowlege about successful business operations as demonstrated in this clip.

[@Rayovoc]

Why does CARB get to determine regulations for the country?

[@stevieRay3211]

Like the EPA and many other alphabet soup departments, Democrats use them to install regulations without Congressional approval. Just another way to get around the voters and Congressional oversight. Politicians and parties come and go, the Deep State is for life.

[@philpugliese7049]

Too much government, far far too much government.

[@2wind2000]

We need more representatives like Lamalfa!!

[@scottekoontz]

MORE CLIMATE SCIENCE DENIERS!! And more train derailments.

[@rocke7398]

These people are all about spending money. Her answer is they’ll get an incentive from the government. Who is going to pay for that?

[@robertbeard230]

That’s generally the answer you get from all of them… “How will this work?” “We’ll write it into law so it has to work!” “And what if it’s too expensive?” “We’ll increase taxes/print more money!” “What if it puts people, companies, or entire sectors out of business?” “The government will give them money/(lower paying) jobs/Burger King gift cards!” I remember one hearing where someone was asked what blue collar workers in the US are supposed to do when their entire industry is shut down and outsourced. The answer given was, “They could always be an Uber driver or work at a convenience store.” These people operate under the assumption that “the law” can mandate economic success, that the US has unlimited money (even Biden’s top advisers have claimed this), that inflation is ONLY caused by corporate greed, and that working at a gas station for $12/hr of driving for Uber for $40 a day is precisely the same as working in the oil industry for $90K or working as a manufacturing engineer for $150K. These people are so out of touch that they literally believe that anyone who doesn’t make multi-million dollar decisions behind a desk in a corporate office is equally equally poor, and that they’re also equally expendable (individually or as a whole). If you asked them where our ancestors would’ve found their food if they weren’t allowed to hunt or fish, they’d tell you they could’ve gone to the market to buy the meat instead of harming the animals. The logic doesn’t matter. This is all about forcing an entire continent to comply with their demands, and they don’t care that the bottom 95% will suffer so the top 0.5% can benefit from their investments. After all, that’s what’s driving a good portion of these initiatives. It’s insider trading. They invest heavily into one supply chain or another, then pass laws that require every citizen, company, government agency, and NGO buy new things or services that directly affect those investments.

[@bill3641]

It's called budget maintenance. If they don't spend what's been given to them, they won't get as much in the next funding cycle. It's all about keeping their jobs and nothing more....

[@robertbeard230]

@@bill3641 … except that the left has been routinely exceeding their budget as if the money doesn’t matter. It’s easy to shrug and carry on when the budget for something doubles, but only when you’re spending someone else’s money. If they were required to stay within their budget that would be ideal, but they’re not; instead, they start with idealism, shoehorn in pet projects and agendas, build a budget around making those things happen, claim the whole planet will roast if they don’t get every cent they want, then they’ll somehow go over budget by 20-200%. After all, this is the same type of initiative that put over $7 Billion dollars towards a “nationwide network of EV chargers”, but only seven of said chargers were built, and none of them work. The money’s gone, funneled off into pockets and god knows where else, nobody can account for it, nobody HAS to account for it, and we have absolutely zero to show for it. Do you want to know what the “next step” is? The same people who fought long and hard to get that $7B+ for those seven (7) useless parking spaces have turned around and decided that instead of launching an investigation into what went wrong, that the solution is to continue shoveling money into that dump truck. They consider that project a raging success, because it was never about saving the planet or building chargers or incentives to the public. It was about siphoning off as much money as possible and laundering it into their pockets. Where else could that much money go without anything to show for it whatsoever?

[@stevemt3238]

What CARB wants to do in already bankrupt CA is fine. But, Carb should stay in CA. Nowhere else.

[@jeffjones2771]

Railroad engines are already electric, the diesel engine is just generating electricity for the electric Driving motors.

[@aengusmacindoic4084]

Speaking of incentives, MO has incentives to put solar on every roof.....it also has semi frequent hailstorms....what kindve govt debt b.s. is that?

[@tetanusbomb]

Solar panels have TOXIC components internal! I would highly recommend...FUCK SOLAR!

[@Copslie-q4q]

How long b4 they do away with the taxpayers and just start printing the "tax dollars" themselves?

[@richknudsen5781]

Wake up Rusty they already print 2 trillion new dollars every year to sustain federal spending NOW.

[@mikefowler301]

wut? you didn't mean that did you? Cause there already doing that (printing paper). They just haven't milked the working class dry yet.

[@Copslie-q4q]

@@mikefowler301 And when we're dry?

[@susansauceda9879]

​@@Copslie-q4qpretty sure the plan is to wipe out most of us. They need to see how many are needed to fix the robots and what jobs cannot be done by robots.

[@emichels]

Always notice this: They'll argue, lie, have a conversation about something that will never happen. But guess what? They'll all get paid...............Joke is on us.

[@susansauceda9879]

Yes. No one ever goes to jail, no matter what they did. It's time for people to go to jail.

[@steelionx9255]

It is time, Susan! You know that those who avoid taxes get behind bars.

[@charlesforbin6937]

MORE GREENIE-WINNIE UNREALISTIC GOALS.....PEOPLE'S LIVES/MONEY BE DAMNED.....

[@satsubatsu347]

A good couple of hours with the SNES version of SimCity would probably do these people some good.

[@steelionx9255]

I've never played that. But then again, these people should be able to do good without something that's only meant for entertainment.

[@alphafemale23.]

This the lowest level

[@scottb9868]

Why is a women with no clue about engines heading this?

[@steelionx9255]

Person, not woman!

[@kathyleander5511]

No I Live Here & BS on them

[@johnleinen7167]

Looks like we're going back to 20 mule teams hauling cargo across Commiefornia, until the PETA fanatics start screaming!

[@ralfie8801]

Tier 4 locomotives are mostly junk, they are a nightmare to maintain and won’t stay running.

[@alphafemale23.]

They don't even know what 5d mean

[@TBoy1247]

"Thank you Senator, now here is pure Washington gobbledygook"

[@keyser456]

It doesn't cost bureaucrats or politicians anything to push for these outrageous requirements. They really couldn't care any less if businesses are going to go out of business. They'll still have their gov jobs with their benefits and will never be held accountable for what they've said or done.

[@limeyprat]

I grew up in California, what CARB has done has been a painful resolve for us all but a net positive. Now CARB needs to be dissolved for the next 50 years at the minimum. Let the rest of the world come to equilibrium, the regulations of 1 state aren't that effective. They have been given power they no longer deserve or required.

[@eodninja6]

CARB is evil

[@bill3641]

If you want to restructure a state to make it a better place to live and work, just study California in depth , and take the opposite positions across the board......

[@ruxoneto6560]

What the transport industry needs to do have a adopted a truck plan , this is where all carb members get paired with a compliant truck & when that truck breaks down you send a car to p/u carb member & carb member gets to mimic what the driver of broken down vehicle driver does , if the vehicle is a 100 miles at 2:00 in the morning carb member gets the same & gets to pay half of the repair bill , tjis bs would be over over night , any takers ???💥💥

[@Yyz1971]

Let's just ban trains altogether and mandate that teleporters be installed. That will solve everything. 🙄

[@robinperronjones5024]

These representatives dream these issues up with no actual common sense plan to achieve them. What happened to the pioneers with attainable vision.

[@rachaelcourtnell7275]

I still want to know, who the heck decided that the world had to be all electric by 2035, just who decided that and who do they think they are?

[@mudpuddle8805]

The huge railroad conglomerates get government funding to buy new railroad engines?

[@tomnodurft9229]

Why do these ppl think that they need to "thank" the congressman/women and the Senators for the question???

[@nickdippold2258]

because it eats up time from them having to actually answer a question.

[@jeffarcher400]

It's just polite protocol. Like addressing the people across the aisle as the gentleman or gentlewoman when the people across the aisle can't define what a woman is. At least we're not at the point of using they,them,zee,zer pronouns yet.

[@stephenallen4374]

Unfortunately when you have people have no background or know nothing about their job you get this a toxic feminist fanatic😂

[@davidc3943]

Anybody ever thought of how people who grew up next to power lines, would have the same effect being around batteries? Food for thought

[@bretwebber7484]

😮

[@davidsonowski414]

Another waste of time at taxpayers expense

[@lutomson3496]

CARB and the California Energy Department always trying to stop business and reliability with the propaganda of humans in charge of weather, we are not never have been never will be

[@paulcolburn3855]

She had absolutely no IDEA how to address his points and question. No idea. No one gave her the narrative response.

[@mikefowler301]

Wtf do you mean? this is part of there job. Unlike the unconstitutional and illegal three letter Executive branch bureaucrats. I happily cheered when they lost the chevron doctrine. So bite it if you don't like it. Congress is doing there job. By the way take a civics course Einstein.

[@websitemartian]

the information needs to be exposed

[@99guspuppet8]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ politicians enabled themselves to live in fantasy land and they assigned themselves powers to grab all the loot ……. Let’s all go to Sugar rock Candy Mountain.

[@samuelmcgill-rl3lb]

AWE, I HURT SOME WITTLE SNOW FWAKES FEEWINGS ,AND THEY TOOL DOWN MY COMMENTS😂🤣😅😆😁

[@limeyprat]

Dude, who is this comment talking to? A TRD Pro with a Widdle Wadder?

[@scottekoontz]

We can't have any more regulation. Why how will those trains with toxic chemicals derail so we can go to small towns and pray as though we are religious?

[@gregorymalchuk272]

Euro 6 diesels hace exhaust that is CLEANER than ambient air. So what exactly is your problem???