elektra
Platinum Member
California laws effect us all. From rising food prices to the cost of energy. I could make a dozen threads on the ways California is hurting the rest of the Nation. I should do a better jop on this OP but I have little time this evening. But, what I post says it best.
California true to it's Global Warming ideals will hurt the entire country with just a simple law or two. No doubt, we needed Trump to win that last election. California has stopped half the USA's trucks from entering California. That is the problem.
California's new environmental law requires all semi-tractors to be current with new California emissions standards. Consequently, trucks cannot be older than 3 years if they are to pick up or deliver containers at those ports. This issue wipes out approximately half of the fleet of trucks used to move containers in/out of the port. My Alexia tells me there are up to 11,000 containers on a container ship, so the 60 container ships anchored in California need up to 660,000 trucks to unload them.
California true to it's Global Warming ideals will hurt the entire country with just a simple law or two. No doubt, we needed Trump to win that last election. California has stopped half the USA's trucks from entering California. That is the problem.
California's new environmental law requires all semi-tractors to be current with new California emissions standards. Consequently, trucks cannot be older than 3 years if they are to pick up or deliver containers at those ports. This issue wipes out approximately half of the fleet of trucks used to move containers in/out of the port. My Alexia tells me there are up to 11,000 containers on a container ship, so the 60 container ships anchored in California need up to 660,000 trucks to unload them.