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Low-carbon rule * USA - Harbor Truckers Seek Standard Delay
Low-carbon rule could cause fuel costs to skyrocket, say carriers
Sacramento,CAL,USA -The Journal of Commerce Online, by Bill Mongelluzzo -Apr 8, 2009: -- California motor carriers are asking the state air quality board to slow down adoption of its proposed low-carbon fuel standard that the industry says could cause the cost of diesel fuel to double... The California Air Resources Board on April 23 will consider, and likely approve, the fuel standard that is designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from gasoline as well as diesel fuel. CARB intends that the rule will take effect in 2010... Patty Senecal, director of California government affairs for the International Warehouse and Logistics Association said, that harbor truckers in Southern California this past year have purchased more than 3,000 clean diesel trucks to comply with the Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-trucks program... Truckers can't run the risk that the engines on their new $100,000 rigs could be damaged by an untested fuel, Senecal said... Also, California must be prepared to reimburse truckers in case engine damage does occur, similar to what the state did in the early 1990s when the California clean-diesel fuel was rolled out, she said...
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