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If it’s law, someone will enforce it at some point. > What the bill does do, is to give legal force to new rules currently being made by CARB. If these rules a
by lettergram 5y ago
If it’s law, someone will enforce it at some point.
> What the bill does do, is to give legal force to new rules currently being made by CARB. If these rules are adopted as proposed, emissions standards for SOREs will be raised to technically infeasible levels from 2024 onwards, effectively prohibiting production of SOREs for the California market. Generators are included in this, although they will not be completely restricted until 2028.
Ah so 2028.
Funny, a friend of mine runs a tree clearing business. As of right now there’s only maybe one decent (electric) chainsaw that would meet the requirements, that would enable you to clear trees. And it’s 5x the prices of gas powered chainsaws.
What does this mean? More fires, less forest management.
I’m sure there’s other machines and vehicles needed for forest management, so this problem will compound.
- micromacrofoot 5y agopeople aren't going to stop clearing trees because of this law, that's complete nonsense... trees need to be felled all the time for a myriad of reasons, the state isn't just going to say "welp, too bad... that tree is permanently on your house now"
- tohnjitor 5y agoAre you unfamiliar with California?
- micromacrofoot 5y agoyeah it's not some bureaucratic hellscape as some commenters would lead you to believe, it's quite a nice place to live
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> the state isn't just going to say "welp, too bad... that tree is permanently on your house now" This is a pretty common thing for the government to enforce on you, though generally not at the state level.
- lettergram 5y ago> people aren't going to stop clearing trees because of this law You won’t be able to buy it in state. Why would a store take that risk? I agree, people will smuggle chainsaws in. But welcome to an insane world.