Guest Post by Martin Armstrong
The supply chain issues across the world are continually worsening due to government mismanagement. It seems as if there are sinister intentions at play, as these new restrictions seem to be a deliberate attempt to destroy the global economy.
California’s far-left politicians only implement laws to hurt the people. The California Air Resources Board (CARB) recently revised its Air Resources Board Truck and Bus Regulation:
“The Air Resources Board (ARB) Truck and Bus Regulation requires diesel trucks and buses that operate in California to be upgraded to reduce emissions. By January 1, 2023, nearly all trucks and buses will need to have 2010 model year engines or equivalent. Compliance requirements are currently in effect.”
Therefore, by January, all trucking companies will need to upgrade their trucks to newer models or slim down their fleets. Joe Rajkovacz, director of governmental affairs and communications at the Western States Trucking Association, said that the new law will eliminate 80,000 commercial trucks from operating, accounting for 17% of the trucks in the state. “We in the industry know that if you think there was a supply chain problem over the last year, wait until you take this many trucks out of the marketplace that are not replaceable. You can be talking about something we as a country have never seen before,” he stated.
CARB continues to deny that removing 17% of the trucking fleet will impact the supply chain crisis. “There is simply no evidence to support any claim that the current supply chain issues have any connection to the state’s effort to clean up California’s trucks emissions,” a representative stated.
Trucking companies are pleading for this ruling to be repealed as they simply cannot afford new trucks. Small trucking companies will go under.
Peter Navarro, former manufacturing adviser to former President Donald Trump, called the situation “Woke microeconomics.” Reducing fossil fuels with no other alternative available seems appealing to the far-left. They do not realize that their save the environment plight cannot dismantle the industrial world without repercussions. Woke microeconomics will lead to our downfall.
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I don’t know anyone who’s been affected by “supply chain” problems.
Everyone I know has been able to keep on keepin on.
I bit unpopular comment, eh?
I’m making dinner for my wife and I tonight. Chicken alfredo with mushrooms and spinach. Bought a 6-pack as well. Grand total? $75.
Chicken – 12
6-pack – 10
Spinach – 3
Mushrooms – 5
Eggs – 6
Heavy cream – 11
Cheese – 26
I guess tax was about 3
Oh shit, I forgot to buy the pasta. I get fresh pasta so, I’m gonna guess another 10.
Grand total probably closer to $85.
The down voters baffle me as well.
Then again ….. YOU were able to afford $75 for chicken alfredo and a 6-pack. Didn’t affect you …. but quite a few people would have to buy a can of pork’n’beans instead. So, there’s yer down votes.
The pain at the cashier IS severe. On mom’s birthday a few weeks I go I baked her from scratch a German Mocha Walnut Torte. Cost damned near $30 !!!
Believe me, I will not be making $85 chicken alfredo anytime soon again. It was pretty darn good though. I think we’ll get about 5, maybe 6 meals out of it so, about $20 per plate. Still too expensive. Yeah, inflation sucks ass. I didn’t have to spend $26 on cheese but, I actually wanted to know what it would cost to follow the recipe of a famous chef.
Glock- Kroger has Michelina’s Fetuccini Alfredo for $1.50 in the frozen food. Buy four for two large servings, then go to Costco and buy a $5 rotisserie chicken. Lift a few packs of parmesan cheese from the snack bar before you leave Costco. You’re out only $11 and you will still have 3/4 of a chicken left to make 2 or three more meals.
Assemble ingredients and pretend it’s the $80 dish. Problem solved.
I like your style. Believe it or not, I’m actually quite frugal. My father calls me cheap.
HaHa Glock, I could write a book on how to eat cheap in a global famine.
It is already time for us to order another 1/4 (or maybe 1/2) beef from the local locker, because not only does it taste like real meat, it is cheaper than anything in the grocery store.
It takes a lot longer to set up a farm from scratch than I anticipated. Every estimate of 1 hour is more like 5 and I am waiting a month on my tractor to be repaired already. I could call up the dealer and tell him “put my utility tractor ahead of all those guys who are going to lose the farm if they don’t get their machines back”, but that doesn’t sound good to even me. We all have jobs to do.
Anyone who needs career ideas might want to look into tractor mechanics.
the best and most correct response to this is for the teamsters to boycott california. they clearly dont want trucks, so lets let them have it as they like it, with no trucks. they can carry their freight in man-purses while zipping along on dollar a minute rental electric scooters!
Aren’t they basically organized crime with letters of marque? Maybe the reason they don’t is because they don’t want to wind up in the harbor.
I always hated picking up freight in Los Angeles. a good idea would be locals PU freight and meeting OTR trucks and a hub far away from the city. they could use electric trucks!
Vernon Coleman was right when he said, “It’s all on purpose, after all”
Woke macro-ecenomics??????
Does nobody use the “TYRANNY”any more?????
The government has NO authority in MAKING you buy something/anything…
But I guess the camel is quite comfortable in his new digs thanks to Obamadoesn’tcare
The local store has had small supply issues and warned my daughter who works there about the problem increasing. there is a message at the register telling people there is a limit to how much baby formula they can buy. I buy a few extra cans of food each time I shop. The price of most of the food has stayed the same. wheat-based products have jumped in price. Bread and cereal. There are times when some shelves are bare. The Ramen noodle section is often bare. (I let my kids eat a limited amount of this crap) I still see some people wearing a mask, surprisingly it’s mostly elderly people, I figured they would know better about masks. Otherwise, its tourists who I can see are slightly freaked by all the unmasked people.
I saw a $12 loaf of bread today. The bread I used to buy for $1.50 is now $7. My pantry is loaded and I buy by the case when i go now.
In Northern Illinois everything is going up. Seems that most things as an example have gone from $1 to $1.29 or $1.39. Most things without going into great detail are up 30% more or less. First the amount or weight dropped in a lot of things, now the size is reduced and the price is up. Biden’s swirling the Crapper faster and faster. I expect the Demsheviks to do something outrageous, illegal and profoundly stupid in response.
Did women stop making milk, or what is the deal with baby formula being so popular?
They’ll blame it on the ingredients, but my guess is that many of the border invaders are coming here pregnant, give birth and are able to buy formula through the govt programs offered; hence, taxpaying families are hit hard with the end result (rationing)!
6CO2 + 6H2O + SUNLIGHT —> C6H12O6 + 6O2
CO2 is plant food!!!
And Soylent Green is People
Yes, The war on carbon is the penultimate stupidity. Carbon is the element of LIFE. Organic chemistry used to be taught as the chemistry of living things. Of course it’s planned; control carbon–control life.
All life on earth would die without CO2….But we live amongst morons…
Evil morons. Pure stupidity is insufficient.
I am looking at buying a new or used pickup(new ones are cheaper wtf), electric sounds good, another downfall if your towing a trailer like I do, the 300 mile range is now 100 mile range, so have to stop every 1.5 hours for a charge, I cant wait for the electric semis,lols
We bought a new 21 truck as older were higher priced to pull a trailer and enjoy retirement now gas to high to go across country. oh well learning to love local.
Those woke morons won’t even figure it out when they are standing in line at an empty grocery store waiting for the truck that can’t arrive because of regulations. This is very similar to price controls in which gov interference prevents sellers of goods or services from making legitimate profit so eventually no one gets anything.
Can you imagine grocery stores in Los Angeles? Chaos and mayhem.
Total fleet 100% – 17% = 83% total fleet. I smell much higher freight prices. Combined with high diesel prices = road map to disaster. I think Texas and Florida will be able to attract a lot of the container ships and the 17% truck will show up there. Fuck California and failed state.
Here is an article describing one of the biggest unmentioned glitches in the supply chain. Like everything else it is being ignored while everything under the sun that’s bad gets blamed on Putin rather than idiotic environmental policy that is cover for a depopulation and enslavement agenda. This was announced a number of years ago and I can say with certainty that the offshore oil industry was paying it next to zero attention. This is probably why we see so many vessels moored out to sea around Singapore and Chinese harbors – places like the Port of Los Angeles will not allow the ships entry so they have no charter and no where to go.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-imo-shipping-factbox/factbox-imo-2020-a-major-shake-up-for-oil-and-shipping-idUSKCN1SN2BX
Why wouldn’t Los Angeles let them moor?
They understand it they do not care! You will own nothing and be happy. That is the goal and our overlords show no signs of backing down. It is all on purpose and will only get worse.
Of course it will….that’s how you know the plan is working.
Question: Are California politicians stupid or malicious? Answer: YES>