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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Energy => Topic started by: Fishrrman on March 09, 2021, 03:00:15 am
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https://www.bluemountaineagle.com/news/state/bill-in-the-oregon-legislature-would-ban-diesel-fuel-sales-by-end-of-decade/article_c2097f44-8046-5a05-811b-e2b418d19a87.html
Bill in the Oregon Legislature would ban diesel fuel sales by end of decade
BlueMountainEagle.com
March 5, 2021
Tim Gruver
(The Center Square) – A bill in the Oregon Legislature this session would ban the sale of diesel fuel by the end of this decade, but not if Republican lawmakers can help it.
Introduced by state Rep. Karen Power, D-Milwaukie, House Bill 3305 would see the state enact a phased ban on diesel fuel over the next eight years starting with non-retail fuel dealers in Oregon's most populous counties.
The ban would hit non-retail dealers in Clackamas, Washington, and Multnomah Counties in 2024, then all non-retail dealers statewide in 2027, before applying to all retail dealers in 2028.
HB 3305 builds on legislation passed by state lawmakers in 2019 requiring big rig truck owners to upgrade their rides with diesel engines from 2010 or newer by 2025. Under the law, those upgrades would be paid for with $50 million in state money won from Oregon's 2017 settlement with automaker Volkswagen over its diesel emissions scandal.
Diesel emissions make up a big part of Gov. Kate Brown's 2020 executive order directing state agencies to regulate greenhouse gas emissions​ with the goal of cutting state carbon emissions to at least 80% below 1990 levels by 2050.
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The article seems to have been updated saying that there would not be a ban on the operation of diesel vehicles, but restrictions would be placed on the sale of diesel fuel...
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Perhaps trucking companies in the northwest should invest in horses and wagons.
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That should work well.
I suppose everything will be delivered by flying fairies?
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Why would the Republicans oppose this? What they should be doing is buying up all the possible spots on the OR border where a diesel fuel station can be builty.
And Idaho should be, right now, building a road around Oregon.
When your enemies are committing suicide, you're supposed to hand them the rope.
Republicans should be moving out and taking their tax dollars with them. A little patient investing and the real estate markets in OR should become a buyer's market in no time.
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That should work well.
I suppose everything will be delivered by flying fairies?
Yep. Tooth fairy going to get a trailer.