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The unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats at the California Air
Resources Board have announced their
intentions to consider backing away from economically devastating
diesel regulations that were based on the
flawed findings of a researcher with a phony PhD.
If the diesel regulations are implemented as currently designed,
small trucking companies will go out of
business because they cannot afford to make costly retrofits that
could sock them with tens of thousands or
even hundreds of thousands in new costs.
The diesel regulations are aimed at truckers and operators of heavy
machinery but their costs will hit all of us
with more expensive prices on everything brought to us in a truck –
that is to say, nearly everything. Housing
prices furthermore will be affected as construction will become
more costly.
All of this from a regulation based on fraud: “Dr.” Hien Tran, the
researcher with the phony PhD, was not
fired and CARB did not abandon his study until now as the study has
been exposed for overestimating
pollution by a whopping 300%.

After negative publicity attached to killing jobs and raising the
price of consumer goods based on a bogus
study, CARB is considering taking a step in the right direction and
not moving forward with this particular
regulation right now. Radical environmentalists are planning to
show up in force to demand CARB implement
the draconian diesel regulation regardless of their lack of
scientific credibility and staggering costs.