California is preparing to ban the sale of commercial diesel trucks by 2040 and require trucks entering ports and rail yards to be zero-emission vehicles by 2035. Some companies, such as Walmart and Amazon, would have until 2042 to convert their trucks to electric.
California does not have the infrastructure to support such a plan, according to Chris Shimoda, the vice president of the California Trucking Association. That is hardly a surprise, given that California does not have the infrastructure to support its current population of 39 million. The state only “narrowly avoided rolling blackouts” earlier this month, according to USA Today, after begging residents not to use electricity between 4 p.m. and 9 p.m.
This comes as California is attempting to force residents to transition to electric cars. Just after California confirmed its commitment to forcing roughly 16 million drivers into electric vehicles, the state had to ask people not to charge their vehicles during peak energy hours. Add onto that another 1.
The lone bright side in all of this is that California has given itself over a decade to realize that it has put itself on an even worse path of energy failures. The state’s Democrats won’t realize it, because they have been consumed by their desire to be the beacon of liberalism for the rest of the country. It will be up to voters to change the course of California over the next decade — if they don’t all move to better-run states first.