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California regulators, legislators and the governor continue to blindly push the state toward zero carbon emissions without any regard for the big picture. Gov. Newsom and legislators celebrated last week when the incredibly powerful state Air Resources Control board decreed that 18-wheeler trucks powered by fossil fuels can no longer be sold here after 2040. […]

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