From the “How many protest big rigs do you want in your front yard?” department comes this lunacy out of the Oregon legislature courtesy of Representative Karin A. Power, Democrat – District 41 – Milwaukie
This release from the Oregon House Republican Caucus said HB3305, authored by Portland Lawmaker Karin Power, would prohibit gas stations from offering diesel fuel in some counties starting in 2024, and statewide by 2028.
The release said if adopted, “…the legislation would cripple Oregon’s economy by effectively banning entire industries from operating altogether”.
Representative Shelly Boshart Davis of Albany said,
“Our entire economy depends on the free flow of freight by both truck and rail, nearly all of which is powered by diesel engines”.
She said there is simply no commercially available, cost-effective alternatives to transporting these goods. Davis said the proposal would destroy “…any and every industry that relies on heavy equipment, renders tens-of-thousands of personal vehicles inoperable and put countless Oregonians out of work”.
Representative Vikki Breese-Iverson from Prineville, said
“The super majority has put agenda over people and our economy”. She said if enacted, Oregonians could no longer rely on everyday goods like food, groceries, and medicine being readily available.”
The legislation was first read in the Oregon House Tuesday and awaits committee assignment.
The PR:
You can read HB3305 here: https://olis.oregonlegislature.gov/liz/2021R1/Downloads/MeasureDocument/HB3305/Introduced
It gets better. Just to show house clueless the sponsor is, see the reply tweet:
She doesn’t even understand her own bill, from the very first page:
“Petroleum diesel” means fuel produced from the distillation of petroleum or its products that is suitable for use in a compression ignition engine.
Notwithstanding ORS 646.922, on or after the following dates, a nonretail dealer or retail dealer may not sell or offer for sale petroleum diesel to a consumer for use in a motor vehicle:
Basically what this is – a bid to make biodiesel the “official state fuel”. Oregon already has a 5% blend mandate for all diesel fuels sold statewide.
Is there enough biodiesel to fuel the entire state of Oregon by 2028? Doubtful. This is from 2016, where only 1.84% is biodiesel, and it is unlikely they will be able to meet the demand by 2024:
Most of the in-state production comes from SeQuential Biofuels in Salem, which has a production capacity of 15 million gallons per year.
The total number of gallons of diesel used in Oregon ?
According to CFP reported data, 750 million gallons of diesel, including bio- and renewable diesel, were consumed in 2017, the most recent year of data collected. Growth projections from the Department of Transportation’s June 2018 forecast indicate 1.4 percent growth for calendar year 2018 and1.0 percent growth for calendar year 2019.
Source: https://www.oregon.gov/deq/aq/Documents/CFP-Forecast2019.pdf
There we have the intellectual depth of the average democrat politician.
fleets/railroads should refuse to enter the state.
ignorance should hurt.
There won’t be any diesel for trains, ships or boats since SALE of diesel will be illegal. I guess they can resurrect the whaling vessels and go back to whale oil lamps. Same same for farming and construction equipment. Of course they won’t need any more roads or buildings.
Government of the boneheads, by the boneheads, for the boneheads!
Even if there were enough biodiesel — peanut oil & the like — the thermodynamic efficiency, CO2 emissions, etc. would be about the same.
Much ado about nothing by activists who don’t understand physics, chemistry, biology, or economics, and what’s worse, DON’T CARE about their own bull-headed ignorance.
That the people are starting to catch onto the scams of the Democrats is one of the reasons why they are pushing HR 1 so hard.
Once passed, it won’t matter how many people catch on, it will be impossible for Democrats to lose.
While sympathetic to the realists of Oregon who can actually see the Emperor’s private parts as he struts past in his “new clothes”, I am not adverse to the idea of cutting the lifeblood of industry in the state just long enough for the rot to consume itself completely. If people vote for economic suicide – that is what they should receive. Then next election they can continue the trend if they like the outcome.
I looked up the actual text of this bill. It is a VERY rosy picture imagining that biodiesel will fill the gap without any consequence. And the timetable seems rather unrealistic.
As I said elsewhere: unless you live in Oregon, this will be fun to watch. (and if you do, probably time to leave)
It won’t pass.
Beginning at and moderate and heading left, there is:
Stupid;
Democrat;
Progressive Democrat;
Progressive;
Oregon Democrat;
Raving Idiot;
& Nefarious asshole.
This proposal falls just left of the Oregon Democrat on the scale, so it will only garner the Raving Idiot & Nefarious asshole votes.
I had a phone call from a guy that had moved out here from Minnesota (he was trying to find someone to help him with his engineering/surveying/planing problems).
He bragged about being a proud lifelong Democrat. He thought his political beliefs were the high ground. After being here for a few years and trying to get an approval to do something with his property he said.
“We are very staunch responsible Democrats in Minnesota, but you guys are just nuts.”
The way I look at it, the world needs more very public crash test dummies on climate ‘solutions’. We had the South Australia wind induced blackout. We just had ERCOT wind. We will likely get a UK grid wind induced blackout one winter day soonish. And if Oregon passes this nuttery, we will have the Oregon freight industry biodiesel smashup by 2028. All good, since I live in Florida so can just watch rather than participate.
Before getting to bans, we need to cover up Oregon with windmills. They deserve it.
An unforeseen consequence of replacing fuel oil with hydrogen
Is not diesel one of several fractions, including gasoline, that you get when you refine crude oil. What else can be done with this fraction other than use it in engines? Need Middleton here.
Diesel fuel is also used for heating, where it is sold as #2 heating oil (aka “off road” diesel, because there are additives put into diesel fuel for engines that aren’t in heating oil). Here in the US diesel for off road use is dyed red, and that for vehicle engines is dyed green. Not sure how many homes/businesses in OR heat with oil but no doubt the greens will be looking for ways to shut them down as well….
I’ve idly thought about having my next (and final) vehicle be a diesel-powered something, then doing to simple mods required for it to run on straight peanut oil. I did a quick search on Alibaba, and found that you can get peanut oil for as low as $230 per metric ton, which works out to 80.1 cents per US gallon, minimum order of 7 metric tons (almost exactly 2,000 gallons).
80.1 cents a gallon for motor fuel. Why that’s…peanuts.
This trucker says Do it! Please just do it! I want to see the effect not only on industry but on all of the supply chains, from food to medicine and medications.
And don’t give me that crap about innocent people suffering. I am far beyond that argument. We are at war and in war there will always be collateral damage.
If I were the governor of Texas I would have my state police standing right by ICE as they release their COVID positive illegal immigrants and take them into custody and load them onto a dedicated airliner and ship them to DC and let them loose.
The fact is the overwhelming majority of those in Oregon, DC, and many other places knowing voted for the people that push this kind of crap and I want to see them try to actually live it instead of just suffer through reading and listening to their constant BS.
I want to ban diesel fuel in WA and OR, so we have found some common ground here. Close the refineries now!! Except in my case I want to see a large-scale teaching moment.
BTW, in addition to the big trucks, not only do all the refrigerated trailers run on diesel so do the backup/emergency power sources for all the cold storage warehouses as are those for hospitals and other large emergency services centers. Then there is all the heavy construction equipment from cranes to bulldozers and everything in between.
Like I said, I’m beyond tired of all this virtue signaling BS. Just do it! Either ban diesel of shut the hell up!