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EVs are not environmentally friendly. The pic is a joke, but the resources required to build those feel good machines are significant and totally left out of EV discussions.

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California is the ultimate HOA (Home owners association). Self important people coming up with and enforcing ideas nobody wants.

Unfortunately in this case the US as a whole is paying the price. Of course fixing may shine the light on how fragile the system is. It bad enough we get so many goods from China. It's worse when you can't even get those goods.

California needs to lift all related transportation restrictions for a time. Say the end of covid. No one is getting back to work without supplies or an inventory.
 
EVs are not environmentally friendly. The pic is a joke, but the resources required to build those feel good machines are significant and totally left out of EV discussions.

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The rolling virtue signal. Maybe they should just get rid of turn signals on EVs altogether (because obviously the right turn signal would be capitalist and the left turn signal would be socialist) and go with a standard virtue signal that flashes whether you want to make a right or left turn.
 
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Metals from automobiles is recycled. Not sure about tires/etc.

I think the bulk of most automobiles is metal - at least for now.

Lithium from EVs is a recycling issue.
Okay, so they recycle the metal. I began to reply that much is plastic, then reminded myself that we are discussing the trucking industry in this post. They are still mostly metal. But, even the metal recycling process creates carbon along with the process of creating the replacement vehicle, which has a ton of plastic on it generated from oil. These policy makers are dumb and short-sighted.
 
EVs are not environmentally friendly. The pic is a joke, but the resources required to build those feel good machines are significant and totally left out of EV discussions.

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When biden went to Europe a few days ago they brought 80 vehicles, many were electric. They fed the diesel generators they brought with them "green" biodiesel.. that they also flew over to charge them with.
 
Okay, so they recycle the metal. I began to reply that much is plastic, then reminded myself that we are discussing the trucking industry in this post. They are still mostly metal. But, even the metal recycling process creates carbon along with the process of creating the replacement vehicle, which has a ton of plastic on it generated from oil. These policy makers are dumb and short-sighted.
The cab/body of most modern trucks is plastic/fiberglass now. The bulk of the weight is the frame & drivetrain (whether ICE or EV powered).

It is quite common to reuse the body and frame/etc. when the ICE and/or trans & diffs wear out, and vice versa; if a frame/etc. wears out, then the fleet owners buy what is called a "glider"; a frame without engine, often without axles, then they put the drivetrain from the old frame into the new frame/body (usually a new body, but sometimes they buy it without the "cab", sometime with rear axles).Sometimes such "kits" are bought by "body builders" who create "utility"/vocational trucks (dump trucks, delivery trucks, fire engines, etc.).

In short, a lot of reuse happens in truck fleets. It is quite different from passenger automobiles.

FYI - this is the industry if wrote software for, for 9 years, so I understand something of how it works.
 
EVs are not environmentally friendly. The pic is a joke, but the resources required to build those feel good machines are significant and totally left out of EV discussions.

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Another thing they conveniently leave out...the roads they complain about as their rolling virtue signal blows out a tire. Both these items have petroleum as a primary ingredient.

Better keep those rigs drillin!
 
My brother is an OTR trucker for decades. He runs between Sparks and LA, and he says these supply chain excuses comin' from DC are nothing but BS.
He also says it's a drivers' market out there right now. He likes where he's at, so he's not looking to change outfits.
 
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My brother is an OTR trucker for decades. He runs between Sparks and LA, and he says these supply chain excuses comin' from DC are nothing but BS.
He also says it's a drivers' market out there right now. He likes where he's at, so he's not looking to change outfits.
They are going to get busier with a lot more opportunity. Container ships that used to go to California are being diverted to Texas and Florida where they ARE getting unloaded. Haven't heard if Seattle is picking up any of that action, but what used to get railed and trucked out of CA will now be headed west instead of east.
 
Well.....I could see that The CCP doesn't want to buy products from us (the USA). So.....

Oh wait....food shortages are starting to hit China and the Chinses people are grumbling about the increased cost of food price inflation. BUT, But, but.....Mao solidified his power with famine. And, one of the major goals of The CCP is to invade Taiwan so?

Aloha, Mark
 

FACEPALM: Los Angeles Will Fine Cargo Ships That Can't Unload


"Los Angeles ports will fine cargo ships waiting to unload their goods in an attempt to relieve congestion that is as desperate as it is gobsmackingly stupid.​
It's a fine so pointless and wrong that, of course, Presidentish Joe Biden has chimed in with his support for it.​
According to CNBC, the White House is "hopeful" that fines will "ease the intensifying logjam of cargo ships" waiting to unload at Long Beach and the Port of Los Angeles. Together, the two account for 40% of the country's seaborne imports.​
Carriers will have to pay "$100 per day for each container lingering past a given timeline" starting on the first of the month. Containers moved by truck will have nine days before they'll start paying, and containers moved by rail will have just three days. ..."​
IMHO....

$100 a day is nothing.

Then....
Fines have a way of being charged to the ultimate consumers.

Example : The fine might be $100 for the container full of _____. So, paperwork and labor to figure stuff out. So, it's not simple to split the fine amongst the actual number of products within the container. So, let's just slap a flat $ for every ________ in there. If there is any extra $ that the company collects? We'll just add that to our profit. Things go so well so.....yeah, they'll continue to collect the money in the future.

Call it The cost of doing business.

And what about the fines going into the Govt's coffers? Rrrrright.....so now, the Govt can give out more welfare money.

You paid for it..

Let's Go Brandon!!!!

Aloha, Mark
 
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Ironically enough, Prius appear to be targeted more than others for cat converter theft. So…about that destroying the environment thing…
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The Prius ain't good enough. It still has a gas engine.

Just like with a Dictator........it's MY VISION (of ZERO EMISSIONS) or nothing.

Q : Can you ever satisfy someone with that kind of worldview?

Aloha, Mark
 

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