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Clean Truck Program * USA - At So Cal Ports Is Becoming Victim of Success
OPINION by John O'Dell: "Well, not only did it work, it is working too well"
USA -edmunds.com/Green Car Advisor -29 Jan 2009: -- ... The Los Angeles Times reported this week that the ports, which expected to have to subsidize about 1,000 trucks, have received bills from trucking firms for more than 2,200 trucks in the first three months of the program and expect to be hit for subsidies for as many as 7,500 this year... More tan 100 trucking companies have ordered new rigs under the program... That's tough, because the ports' incentive fund has run out of money, the state is too broke to ante up any more and under the previous administration the federal government had refused additional funding as well... The ports have had to dig into their own diminishing operating budgets for $44 million to help cover the initial 2,200 subsidies... Its early success also can serve as a lesson to those who scream foul every time a government agency institutes a new policy for improving air quality: the California trucking firms serving the two ports not only accepted the inevitable, they embraced it... Let's not now punish them for finally being good citizens... (Photo: Clean Truck Program at So Cal Ports Is Becoming Victim of Success)Labels: Clean Trucks Program
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