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EPA cracks down on trucking industry to push an all-electric fleet: The Green agenda is thinly-veiled communism, and Germany is a harbinger
American Thinker ^ | 12/28/2022 | Olivia Murray

Posted on 12/28/2022 7:04:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind

Big government loves to trod on the little guy, the citizen, the tax slave.

As history would show, economic collapse ushers in absolute tyranny; no wonder "they" can barely hide their agenda for financial ruin.

Just take a look at this breakdown of Rand Paul’s Festivus report which details nearly half a trillion dollars just in interest on the national debt because people like Nancy Pelosi and Mitt Romney remain beholden to self and special interests using our money.

Enter the newest EPA “regulations” — what a nice euphemism for the illegality of the Fourth Branch of bureaucrats making de facto laws! From a piece by Candace Hathaway at Blaze Media:

The Environmental Protection Agency announced it would enforce tighter pollution regulations on heavy-duty trucks, vans, and buses. The stricter nitrogen dioxide emissions standards could lead to higher operating costs for the trucking industry….

The EPA’s new regulations, which impact vehicles manufactured after 2027, aim to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions by approximately 50% by 2045.

According to the EPA, the recently announced emission rule is the ‘strongest-ever national clean air standards to cut smog- and soot-forming emissions from heavy-duty trucks.’ The EPA boasted that the new standard is 80% stronger than current regulations.

The agency admits that the more stringent standards are meant to force the trucking industry to transition away from diesel-powered vehicles and replace fleets with electric vehicles.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: epa; ev; greenenergy
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To: zeugma

Instead of 80,000 lbs of weight, they will bump that up to 90K. I am sure the roads can handle it.


21 posted on 12/28/2022 8:52:18 PM PST by Glad2bnuts ("None of the people I know who didn't take take the Jab regrets their decision" ZERO)
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To: SeekAndFind

Snow go for NYC’s electric garbage trucks that can’t handle winter weather
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4119516/posts

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The department aims to switch all 6,000 vehicles in its fleet from gas to electric as part of the state’s goal to reduce emissions by 2040. But city officials say they haven’t found electric garbage trucks that are powerful enough to plow snow.

The department has ordered seven electric rear loader garbage trucks, custom-made by Mack and costing more than $523,000 each, with delivery slated for the spring. Used for curbside trash collection, the department’s current rear loader truck fleet runs on diesel and is outfitted with plows to clear streets during snow season.

But officials say previous electric trucks tested by sanitation have not lasted longer than four hours plowing snow before running out of power, and the new electric trucks will be used for trash collection but not plowing snow.


22 posted on 12/28/2022 8:55:46 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: SeekAndFind
Madness!!!


23 posted on 12/28/2022 8:57:41 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: EC Washington
It’s the charging stations - there is not enough charging areas for a fleet of trucks at any truck stop or terminal. Very few towns have enough power to supply a completely electric truck terminal.

Yup. That's another reason the entire idea is insane

24 posted on 12/28/2022 9:21:33 PM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Simple solution is to put gasoline generators on semi trucks.


25 posted on 12/28/2022 9:23:26 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: GOPJ

The plan is to strangle you where you stand, plain and simple


26 posted on 12/29/2022 3:06:59 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Jacquerie

Deep State doesn’t care whether we believe it or not.


27 posted on 12/29/2022 3:07:57 AM PST by mewzilla (We wwonder what percentage ofill never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They’re called watermelons. Green on the outside and red on the inside.


28 posted on 12/29/2022 5:37:21 AM PST by BubbaBasher ("Liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals" - Sam Adams)
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To: SeekAndFind

Read an earlier article about the electric garbage trucks in NY that won’t start in very cold temps. Even when they can start them, they don’t have enough power to push a blade to clear the streets of snow.

The next semi-conservative administration needs to eliminate the EPA, along with other depts. run by radical bureaucrats.


29 posted on 12/29/2022 7:44:33 PM PST by octex
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