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Doug LaMalfa: “If you all want to talk about wanting to have cleaner running trucks on the road immediately, especially with CARB…”

On the recordDecember 4, 2019
If you all want to talk about wanting to have cleaner running trucks on the road immediately, especially with CARB coming down on California truckers on January 1, just days away from now, and you make it a much higher bar by having this World War I-era tax still in place, then you are not achieving cleaner air, you don't have the electric vehicles that are available in any kind of volume these days, or even seen as viable.
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Doug LaMalfa
Republican · California

Editor's note · Context

LaMalfa criticizes regulations hindering cleaner truck technology and emphasizes the need for viable options.

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