A Possible Unintended Consequence Of CARB '14 Regs....

I call Husing's arguments in the Press-Enterprise grasping at straws.

Clean air does not poverty make, folks. The poverty in the Inland Empire was sharply affected by that little balloon-burst in 2008 after years of let-the-good-time-roll cut-the-regulatory-binders and we're not out of the Ayn Randian/Orange County/San Diego 'conservative' economic woods yet. Even Greenspan admits that the greed-is-good economics failed miserably and he was Rand's personal pet object. $$ ain't what trickles down when you give Corporate America a pass.

What you get is more problems. Some things we HAVE to regulate. Stop signs, street signs, traffic lanes--even acceptable/unacceptable levels of noise and air pollution, where if you don't regulate it you get chaos and opportunistic abuse.

Here in Indiana, SOME truckers run their illegally unmuffled trucks so loud they reverberate a mile into our beautiful woods for a little reduced back pressure and a little more power. They'll get regulated further and enforced, too, just like cigarette smokers.

Abuse and inconsideration = Government regulation

 

Regulation is one thing but backdating regulation is bs it for those that have invested in older equipment these regulations are cutting the value by half it us theft and the double take is after losing half your investment you are required to pull more money out your arse to upgrade it is no wonder so many companies are fleeing the state and next year i bet more will follow.......,
Your right the jobs will exist just not in cali

 

Some, including me, would call what California has done with CARB, with California's vast square miles of dense population in its metropolitan areas, courage. No way the industry would clean up on its own.

I'm always half-amused by the claim, applied to all sorts of long-rotted social issues, we know we need to fix that, but not THIS way.

Sorry. Got tired of patiently waiting...

 

Like I said, abuse and inconsideration = government regulation and enforcement.

Tick, tick, tick.

 

If Indiana had CA's population density, then Cali's CARB would be needed here. My county has 25,000 population, less than 2,500 population in Spencer, the county seat. There are more cars right now in any few miles of the I-10 (San Bernadino Fwy) than all of Owen County.

Noise pollution from high-decibel, muffler-removed, illegal trucks. Different story. One size - does not - fit all.

Your N14 or 3406 is welcome here. Properly muffled.

 

Ha-ha. Talk about grasping. Yes, there's a good reason some things are done at federal, state, county or municipal level. Do I really need to explain the civics and chaos if each municipality tried to legislate what's bolted on or not bolted on to a truck as it passes through your or my town?

And why a town CAN enforce a 'no engine brake' law?? Why a State, like Texas, can require an inspection sticker on your car if you want to register in Texas? And set emissions requirements.

Hopefully, California's loss of those good old trucks is, or will be, Indiana's gain. (What don't get shipped out of the country.)