Port proposal to clean up the air could cost up to $14B
By Stephen Frank
If I wanted to make Mexican, Oregon, Washington and even the Oakland ports were very competitive, I would spend $14 billion on an Al Gore hoax, to “clean up” the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports. Where will the money come from? From those that send or receive cargo from the port. That raises the fees for use, while the other U.S. ports don’t—and Mexico has a Superport just south of San Diego, modern and technologically advanced.
“But port officials can’t go as far as they have in the past because of new limitations on retiring old trucks, inserted into a bipartisan deal to raise the gas tax in April.
In a draft released Wednesday, the ports outline a plan to transition trucks, ships, and container-moving equipment towards zero tailpipe emission-technology within the next 20 years. It would cost between $8 and a whopping $14 billion – dwarfing the $2 billion spent on the original Clean Air Action Plan the ports passed in 2006.
Remember in April the legislature passed a $5.2 billion a year gas tax increase—not to fix our roads and streets—but to help finance scam like this. Add the cap and trade 63 cents—and you will have to be really rich to drive in California. Guess port workers will need to be trained for new careers.
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Stephen Frank: Is the the publisher and editor of the California Political News and Views. Mr. Frank speaks all over California and appears as a guest on several radio shows each week. He has also served as a guest host on radio talk shows and is a full time political consultant. http://capoliticalnews.com/
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