‘Don’t Do What We Do In California’: Doug LaMalfa Deprecates The State’s Locomotive Regulations

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During House floor remarks on Tuesday, Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) spoke about locomotive regulations in California.

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00:00Without objection. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Well I come from California which there's

00:10a certain amount of risk in saying that because we do a lot of wacky things

00:13there. It's a wonderful state, wonderful geography, wonderful weather, so many

00:17great things, but the governance sometimes I don't know. What we're

00:23exporting currently is a lot of the work of the California Air Resources

00:27Board which currently is trying to regulate locomotives into technology

00:32that doesn't even yet exist and therefore foist that same non

00:37technology onto other states because we're talking the logistics of moving

00:40freight in California but also out of California that can't be moved because

00:45they don't have a plan for that. We would have them have to switch

00:49railroad switch locomotives at the border or with carbs plans they don't

00:54really care about that. They want us to just make everybody in the whole country

00:57have to buy locomotives to meet a tier, tier 4 they call it, which isn't even

01:03available yet, let alone beyond tier 4. They want to go to zero emissions which

01:08isn't really zero, the so-called electric trains. They're not even

01:12available, the technology isn't there, and all this by the year 2030. Imagine the

01:16logistics of getting food from California which people rely on. 90 to

01:2099 percent of certain crops come from California. We won't be able to ship

01:24them out as well as military material that might need to be moved out of our

01:28state in times of war or conflict. Anyway, don't do what we do in California. I yield back.

01:34For what purpose does the gentleman from West Virginia seek recognition?

‘Don’t Do What We Do In California’: Doug LaMalfa Deprecates The State’s Locomotive Regulations

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