The People’s Republic Of California likes to spread the pain out to all Americans. Well, not the rich ones who can afford to pay extra while cruising in their big gas guzzling SUVs and private jets
Gavin Newsom’s ‘hidden climate tax’ hitting Americans nationwide, lawmaker warns
A California lawmaker is fighting back against an environmental regulation that he says is raising costs for Americans across the country via a “hidden tax” on a variety of goods.
Rep. Vince Fong, R-Calif., is leading legislation to roll back a Biden administration-era regulatory rule that effectively allows California to levy massive cost penalties on shipping vessels docked in its ports.
“It’s a massive hidden climate tax that’s being imposed on every single ship that’s coming into California. And so all of those costs now are getting passed on to consumers,” Fong told Fox News Digital in an interview. “Our ports, they work through and process over 40% of all the containers that come into the United States.”
Fong’s legislation would target the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authorization allowing California to enforce the rule, called the Vessel At Berth regulation, which was granted in 2020 under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s tenure.
It lets the California Air Resources Board (CARB) force a number of large vessels, like cargo ships, to shut off their diesel engines and instead use a state-approved emissions strategy when docked in the Golden State’s ports. A failure to do so could result in potentially tens of thousands of dollars of penalties — costs that Fong said are then passed to people buying goods delivered by those ships.
Let’s not forget, the CARB is made up of a bunch on unelected bureaucrats appointed by Gavin, and totally unaccountable to the people of California. Or anyone else but Gavin. All to solve a mythical problem.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) forces a number of large vessels, like cargo ships, to shut off their diesel engines when docked in the Golden State’s ports.
The horror!! If the vessels shut off their engines, no penalty.
Anyway, CA is not the only state with ports. The ships could go through the panama canal and unload their cargo in TX, LA, MS, AL, FL. Or just dock in AK and truck or railroad them to the lower 48.
Who should pay for the damages from pollution?
Teach just hates math.
There are typically about 6000 40 ft containers on a transpacific cargo ship.”10s of thousands of dollars daily in fines” would cost an additional what 6 bucks per container? Lol and how much might that add to the cost of a big cardboard box shipped?
You fail to see how insignificant that cost might be but believe you can put think climate scientists?? WTF!!!
Dunning Kroger