Big Green comes for big trucks

 American Update:

“ATA opposes this rule in its current form because the post-2030 targets remain entirely unachievable given the current state of zero-emission technology, the lack of charging infrastructure and restrictions on the power grid,” ATA President and CEO Chris Spear said in a statement. “Given the wide range of operations required of our industry to keep the economy running, a successful emission regulation must be technology neutral and cannot be one-size-fits-all. Any regulation that fails to account for the operational realities of trucking will set the industry and America’s supply chain up for failure.”

The ATA expressed concerns that the regulation will disrupt supply chains and how freight moves across the U.S. to the detriment of consumers. The trade group also suggested that the technologies which the EPA is counting on to replace diesel fuel — namely batteries and hydrogen power — are still “unproven.”

Currently, the share of all heavy-duty trucks sold in the U.S. that are EVs or fueled by zero-emission power was approximately 2%, according to the Times. The Biden administration recently released a report detailing its plans to build out a national EV charging network for trucking along America’s major commercial roadways in the coming years; the administration’s efforts to subsidize a national charging network for passenger EVs has rolled out slowly.

“This administration appears more focused on placating extreme environmental activists who have never been inside a truck than the small-business truckers who ensure that Americans have food in their grocery stores and clothes on their backs,” Todd Spencer, president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association, said in a statement addressing the EPA’s final rule.
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The unrealistic objectives of the climate kooks threaten the US food supply and marketing of goods and services.  There is also the fact that even if there were sufficient electrical stations for big trucks, the electricity would still likely have to be produced by fossil fuels because Big Green does not have the capacity to charge all the long haul trucks or trains. 

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