Opinion: Jobs are an afterthought for California regulators fixated on slashing emissions
You hit the “buy” button and expect the items in your cart — clothes, home goods, work supplies, food, medicine — to arrive within days. Have you thought about the people and vehicles responsible for delivering those essential goods to your doorstep? Hardworking truck drivers seem to be an afterthought for California regulators fixated on irrationally slashing emissions with first-in-nation mandates.
The zero-emission trucks also require charging infrastructure that vastly exceeds the present and projected realities of California’s power grid. Gov. Gavin Newsom told Californians not to charge electric vehicles during certain days and times last fall due to the threat of a “brown out.” That’s the reality this CARB proposal is setting us up for.
The proposal before CARB mandates the use of more than 518,000 zero-emission trucks by 2040 and up to 1.5 million zero-emission trucks by 2050. To reach these figures, approximately 38% of new truck sales would have to be zero-emission by 2040. These are ambitious, well-intentioned goals we have no doubt California will achieve in due time. But there’s no sense in rushing the process and setting ourselves up for failure. We haven’t even hit projected truck sales figures with cars.
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