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Email Address: kildar501@gmail.com

Subject: Opposition to Proposed Rule Changes
Comment:
To the board members:
I'm an O/O that has an older truck. I cannot take lucrative loads
to California already due to the emissions requirements. My
tractor
is paid for and the current freight market cannot support a new
truck payment, much less a payment for a slightly used truck. I am
intrigued by the ideas coming from Cummins regarding hydrogen
powered vehicles but there is a problem with government
interference. Mandates from the federal government for EVs by a
certain date. Mandates from CARB for ZEVs by a certain date. There
seems to be no end to the mandates without any of them taking into
consideration the various alternatives being explored and
researched by private companies. What if the advances that Cummins
makes means I can retrofit my older truck to run on hydrogen in
the
near future? Will that be allowed in California? According to
current rules and proposals, no, it wouldn't. So why would I waste
the time and money to make such modifications? The answer is that
I
wouldn't. What about the e-fuels being developed in Europe by the
likes of Porsche? Will those be allowed to be used in vehicles?
According to current rules and proposals, no, they wouldn't. The
short sighted approach to EVs or nothing will be the ruin of the
economy in California and across the country. We need an all
encompassing approach to fighting pollution. And why is it that
there aren't any regulations being thrown at the airline industry?
Some of the cleanest days on record in the last 25 years were
after
9/11 when all planes were grounded and when the lockdowns forced
millions of people to stay home and not fly or drive their
personal
vehicles. Yet, the trucking industry is being targeted with laser
focus to force us to adopt unproven technology that doesn't have a
support infrastructure built for it. How is that fair? The last
time we were forced to adopt unproven technology was the
boondoggle
that was the DEF/DPF systems required after 2008. It took almost a
decade to get the bugs worked out of those systems at untold cost.
Yet, here we are again looking at the same thing with forcing
unproven systems on us. Can we learn from the past and let the
free
market come up with the solutions this time around?