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GtHawk:

--- Quote from: Fishrrman on March 17, 2024, 09:52:30 pm ---"Starting this week, diesel rigs can no longer be added to the list of new vehicles approved to move goods in and out of California's bustling ports. The state sees this as a prime opportunity to make substantial progress in reducing emissions from the trucking sector, which is currently a major source of carbon pollution."

Fishrrman fearless prediction:
It's not "the emissions" of trucks that are going to be "reduced".
Rather, it's the number of tractors that show up to haul the containers away.

Suppose they had a container port, and no trucks came to service the place?

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The democrats in California are not happy that the Covid shortages are over for Californians....or any where else that depends on goods moving through California's ports.

DB:

--- Quote from: roamer_1 on March 17, 2024, 11:58:23 pm ---If Oregon had a brain in their head... Or Washington.
But they don't.
Alaska would wlecome the trade, but moving it south would be a chore.
Vancover is just North Seattle.

Pacific trade is going to hinge on Mexico.

How crazy is that?

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Is Mexico busy building a new mega-container port? They should be.

roamer_1:

--- Quote from: DB on March 18, 2024, 05:08:15 am ---Is Mexico busy building a new mega-container port? They should be.

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There was talk of it somewhere off of Baja... The way it looked, it wouldn't be far to Texas.

Smokin Joe:

--- Quote from: roamer_1 on March 17, 2024, 11:58:23 pm ---If Oregon had a brain in their head... Or Washington.
But they don't.
Alaska would wlecome the trade, but moving it south would be a chore.
Vancover is just North Seattle.

Pacific trade is going to hinge on Mexico.

How crazy is that?

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Well, (Panama) canal tolls are big, and would just add to the price of everything, so that's looking like it. The question is one of how much we want Mexico to control our formerly west coast delivered supply chain.

Fishrrman:
If not California or Mexico, there's also the port of Rupert in British Columbia. I believe they off-load directly from ship to train there - no "trucks in the middle".

But it may be at capacity now.

One thing is clear:
If California refuses to come back to its collective senses, a huge amount of truck and rail business there is simply going to disappear in the next 10-20 years.

Gone with the wind...

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