California Environmentalists Will Phase Out Diesel Trucks

The plan now in the Golden State is to have all diesel trucks off the highways by 2042, just twenty short years from now. The California Air Board has already forbidden the sale of all new gasoline-powered autos and light trucks in the state by 2035. This further step will be decided at an Air Board hearing next spring. 

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The reasons for this are said to be two. First, the exhausts of internal combustion engines cause significant health problems in the general population. Second, they contribute to global warming. There may well be a connection between exhaust gases and health issues. It's not wise to sit in a car with the engine running in a closed garage. At the same time, it's unlikely that eliminating the exhaust gases of cars and trucks in California will have any effect on the global climate or even that of Arizona. 

But like King Canute ordering the waves to stop, California governor Gavin Newsom and his associates need only stipulate the answer to a perceived problem to solve it.

Presently no heavy trucks are available to satisfy the requirements of the proposed rules and no significant infrastructure exists to supply whatever form of energy they will need.