Another Economic Train-Wreck Is Coming In California 

Good Luck to you! I leave PRK (Peoples Republik Kommiefornia) next year for Texas!

Left Denver to go to Missouri 2 1/2 years ago🎉

Hasta la vista baby! More room for me. You probably sold your shack for a high price now your going to buy a bigger shack for less. 😂😂😂

​@@MyGumby123 Even more room for me. Take the money and run. Buy a big shack in Texass.😂😂😂

​@@garygatto3410 Who cares??

Fantasies.

Even "Disney" moved to Florida

Might disagree with you here. The ports in CA are the primary reason trucks and rail are up and running. Without these ports ground transportation takes a massive hit! I would say they need each other for sure.

Yeah CA knows it’s able to leverage its big power sometimes to push political agendas. Being the 7-10th largest economy of the world (CA versus all other COUNTRIES) it has a lot of power economically. LA-Union pacific and OC-BNSF is soon going to lose a lot of rail traffic as San Bernardino is building the country’s if not worlds largest rail yard (BIG) to bypass the crime vandals in LA and be closer to the big warehouses in the Inland Empire and Phoenix. I guess CA doesn’t even want that to work. Eventually companies would find away to ship other places and other ports. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mexico created a giant port if this passed.

California seaports decided to get in line after it was discovered Eastern ports could do their business no Problem

I disagree. Trucks and rails that feed the lines to a large portion of North America come through CA ports. Almost all of goods from Asia come through here. Some may say to just bring these goods to the east coast. Won’t happen. The canal does not have the capacity and the long way would be too expensive.

@@sar4x474 Basically the only reason California ports are as active as they are? Closer to China and South Pacific ... California needs to get their head out of the clouds ...

"No management at all" would be an improvement at this point. I'd rather they did nothing at all than to continue screwing around with the economy & making things worse.

Uh, I’m for the “no management at all” party.

@@christianlibertarian5488 Up to a point I would agree; however the idiots responsible for the mess they made of this state should take responsibility for cleaning it up.

Thing of it is, if they keep driving out the tax-base (i.e., businesses & the people who work for them) the way they've been doing the last few years, they're not going to get that much money for much anyway.

CA is now $98 BILLION in the red when a few years ago it had a SURPLUS of $98 BILLION. Joe Biden's generosity to the state's liberals will now dry up. Who will pay in the future? The homeless with billions going to house them, or illegals working cash in hand, criminals who proliferate in the Golden State?

and so is Gavin Newsom!

a sham and a scam

The VOTERS are pathetic.

Excellent analysis.

The problem is Pelosi

Don't forget Bonta and his wife and those cackling hens on the Los Angeles Board of Supervisors. If this continues I'm moving to Tennessee

Wouldn't you also have to get rid of all the millions and millions of LIKE MINDED VOTERS that put them in office? Problem is, a lot of those people who have the means, have departed your silly state, bringing their silly ideas with them wherever they move to [much to the dismay of the state where they move]. That's reality.

Same here, but 1954. Born in Santa Monica and grew up in the West LA area.

Don't forget Pelosi, Boxer, Brown, Feinstein etc. who as public servants failed miserably yet got reelected some how.

The unions, especially the teachers union and the police unions 😂 their all mason's

Stalin - 'Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.'

Makers vs Takers. The Takers outnumber the Makers.

I feel for you, I really do.

Votes are not secure...that's the only valid reason why.

How are they going to charge this wonder train?

They lost $22 billion in homeless funds...virtue signaling is very expensive

No they spent 24 billion and most of it went to corporations to employ people that were supposed to do something about the homeless problem... It appears as though it went to actually fight the homeless, the authorities come trash their tents regularly in San Diego.

@@drewstead316 Corruptions! Homeless move around the cities!

But most of that money is OUR money that we sent to DC to be redistributed.

CA would then complain about the methane gas farts from the mules !

​@@Garth2011Not to mention the inevitable caterwauling from the animal rights groups.

If a policy makes sense to an "average" American, the left will find reasons to attack and condemn it.

No businesses either

Californian here. Outside of the big cities California is pretty conservative. We definitely didn't vote for this.

California has become the 'fool's gold' state, thanks to Communists in office, there.

I don't vote because elections rigged. Biden didn't win 2020, Sky News Australia video taped and posted the video. 100% proof. So 100% likely to be ripped down and it was. However, Sky news does have some remnants of the 2020 election fraud still online. Can't trust USA news, so I use Australia news. They are not fond of Americans so very willing to expose the UGLY truth.

yep...

No, they don't. It's called election fraud. And it's coming to your state. Wake tfu buddy.

Sure it is! It’s just a classic land grab, just on a huge scale. Drive real estate values into the crapper and then buy up property cheap. Obama is already buying land out there. Watch. The democRATS will come out of their holes and steal your state’s land

Yet the states with Republican trifectas are actually pretty well managed.

Stalin - 'Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.'

Saved 150k on what? I was born in California, I have a business, pay no income taxes and save tons of money. Bought two houses recently for 70k. Paid cash

I stayed in California and made a ton of money.

Oh, you are so right. The Dems will “borrow” the money from that fund. But since there will never be battery powered locomotives, it will never need to be repaid. Genius!

These guys make Tony Soprano look like an amateur.

It fell into DNC coffers

It's easy to spend money when it's NOT YOURS, LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep I remember when Shell left Bakersfield. Now they want to push out Chevron

The only saving grace is that the importation is now from North Dakota instead of Saudi Arabia.So we in the Upper Midwest are all in favor of California banning oil production.

I think what's happening I Cal is going on all over the western world . In theory we would probably be better of with out oil but we can't live without it & no on comes up with what's going to replace it apart from electric . One group don't want oil another doesn't want ,another doesn't want nuclear even some of them don't want wind farms & solar panels .in my opinion it's too late now for the enviroment but that's my view I could be wrong

Same goes for long haul EV trucks.

From a physics point of view, battery powered freight locomotives are a stupid concept. If rail companies were to comply, they would electrify the tracks, and the trains, by the good old fashioned third rail.

@@christianlibertarian5488 In a country where the railroads are not always fenced, overhead wires are probably a better choice.

@@mpeterll Okay, sure.

something tells me there would be no screams so the politicians would have nothing to do. the $20 an hour wage has tremendous voter support in california, what with all the restaurant closures.

Since this is impossible, I don't worry a bit. Ever hear of electric trains?

It’s all a part of their plan to take us back to feudalism.

And restrict power production and the grid.

That worked out real good.

Then require people that own EVs in the summer not to charge their cars because the grid is overloaded.

It warmed my heart when Elon pulled Tesla from the Golden State!

I'm two people, (1) I was born in Sacramento, 91 yrs. ago, and (2) I'm a Democrat, BUT, one that would be a REPUBLICAN in a second to save my State.

By design!

Try Mississippi

railway electrification is communist now? HAHAHAHA you seem to forgot that the US once led the world in that aspect

Last time I checked, the markets still have food on the shelves.

It's just about already there.

@@milascave2 Yes. With faster rising prices along with unemployment.

@@milascave2 You sure about that? Last time I checked markets were leaving and the parasites who robbed them are complaining about 'food deserts' and needing to walk an extra mile for their insulin.

That makes a great deal of sense. Build the warehouses on the Nevada and Arizona sides of the border and tell CA, "Okay...come get 'em with yer electric trucks." Nevada and Arizona would probably love it and give the transportation companies all sorts of incentives to build the warehouse infrastructure. As a bonus, it will p*ss Commiefornia off big-time when they figure out that battery-powered heavy trucks and freight trains are technological wet dream.

love it !!!!

Great idea!!!

This is another one. A "bonus" train wreck.

This is a lie, I was around those areas last week and they were wonderful and booming

​@@TysonQuickStop lying to yourself only thing that is booming is the homelessness and the the drug trade

@@glennpratt6933 Maybe that's what he considered "wonderful" and "booming." (Either that or maybe he's one of the mobs of looters who cleaned out & drove out all the legitimate stores in the city.)

@@glennpratt6933 and crime, don't forget crime. TysonQuick is probably a felon or an illegal.

It's just a matter of time before CA bans commercial air flight within its borders.

that's the point. why only have planes and cars? having multiple options for travel is far better.

@@ianhomerpura8937 Why? Is the choice between train, car, and bus that are paid for by private funds not enough for you? Do people really need to subsidize to build, run(if they ever finish), and maintain another route when vs sit back and look at the taxes\business already created and running from train\car\bus travel??

@@ianhomerpura8937 That's fine, but only if the private sector initiates it. We don't need govt coming in and mandating everything we do. Sacramento is killing CA. How long before Govt bans our hot water heaters? You know they will eventually try...

​@@ianhomerpura8937To bus the homeless and drug dealers around easier?

Can't power a tiny locomotive, with the energy from the sun? The Sun? a nuclear furnace that hits the earth with more energy in a year than all other forms of energy there ever has been or will be combined. It is really hard to corner the energy market when there is more energy than we can ever use literally falling on us. There is no coal power plants in CA, the states around it also have very little coal left. Fossil fuel power generation is only a maximum of 29% in CA this year and that drops a few percent every year. Battery storage is already hitting peaks of 20% that will double in the next year.

They should not be called EV's. They are RCV's....Remote Combustion Vehicles.

Then the trains will be unloaded at the state border and the goods will be shipped by horses & buggies.

@@sagatuppercut2960 No they won't. That's banned too. You can't have a horse leaving excrement on the road or road side. That's only OK if it's human and in one of their big cities.

Your bet is almost a sure thing. Keep in mind though that the right of way for the Vegas route already exists. Construction costs, environmental issues and routing are already taken care of for the Vegas route. The traffic jambs every weekend on the I-15 with a train whizzing by is the best marketing handed to the company it can possibly get.

@@wannabetowasabe never mind the fact that the majority of Brightline West is Privately Funded. Or that if CAHSR had gone along the I-5 corridor they could have avoided many of the hurdles you mention. But politics moved the line further inland to provide stops to "Growing" cities in the Central Valley. I'm not gonna take CAHSR to go to Bakersfield, or Fresno... sorry Fresno, I'm just not. SF to LA makes sense. LA to Modesto, not so much.

@@wannabetowasabe Who needs a High Speed Train to Fresno? If anything, you need a High Speed Train to get away from Fresno!

At least the immigrant community will work.

Oh I don’t know. California is pretty much turned into 💩 and I’m not seeing any end

yeah. let us know how that works out for you. i was fined 7.5k for owning a truck long before the carb deadline and it wiped me out. they won't tell you where there desk is so you can complain as they are worried someone might retaliate. I am not welcome in my home state. they think they are creating laws as they go. it is not lawful, but they get their way or they will put you down. they will choke on their spoils, what's worse is some think they are doing right by us that aren't smart enough to think for ourselves. choke

almost like leftist bullshit is bad for everything and everyone.

Both are Socialist

Go live in Venezuela.

Agreed Red'. The parallels between Venezuela and California....in communist-oriented policies have become too obvious to gaslight.

​@bugtusslealien3931 why? It's a socialists paradise.

You just need a higher paying job.

You have any proof?

@@dannytse8767 It was voted down, yet was resurrected without a second vote. What "proof" do you need? The votes are public record.

The real question is did CA voters sleep through Econ 101?

Did republicans? Replacing all other taxes with tariffs is insane.

@@et34t34fdf If you studied history, you would know tariffs are the least evil compared to quotas

@@sangmoon2464 Yes, let's shift all of the tax burden to the poor and middle class, tariffs are super regressive. Unfortunately, RU-vid censor a lot more than they used to, so I'm not allowed to say my opinion about a "person" like you, but i think you know how i feel...

@@et34t34fdf Tariffs are imposed on the foreign importers

Well quit voting Democrat and go back to common sense.

Better idea - how about you stop using everything that comes from California? Starting with RU-vid. Then... google, apple, fresh food? Let's do both and I assure you, we will hardly notice, you will.

It's already over. FJB

Pretty sure that on the current course, without a MAJOR correction, the country as we once knew it, is already finished.

Due to the Uniparty, we may be there already.

It was over in 2009

Don’t forget Harris is waiting for Biden to collapse.

Stadler manufactures battery electric trains in its facility in Salt Lake City. It has worked in other places to be fair. Also yes, the best solution would be statewide railway electrification, but would the railway barons who own the Class 1 railroad companies agree?

Smh.. those are passenger trains, not freight . 🤦🏼‍♂️

diesel electric

Also, do trains around the world carry as much weight as the trains here in the US ?

@@SC_XOLOs India has electrified freight locomotives. Check the WAG-12 freight locomotives made by Alstom for the Indian Railways.

AlGore strikes again! Only a witling like Gruesome Newsome could come up with a lame-o answer like that

That's true but they will waste a tremendous amount of money and make us miserable in the meantime.

Or they go broke. I no longer do business with people who are located in New York or California. They just don’t care about the customers and I am finding better products in free states

When that state is the 6th biggest economy in the world....yes.

Nope, we have port facilities in other states that don’t need to deal with Cali. And if they run up the price, they’ll find out.

Stadler has those battery electric trains for a long time now

More like "LIE"-n-el.

He is not that smart. He would’ve been better off if he had.

or experience thermal runaway and cause a disaster of epic proportions as the battery fire welds the train to the tracks.

Anyone who thinks that batteries can power a freight train should come see me as I have a lovely bridge to sell for cheap.

Nobody knows anything; You need to create your own process, manage risk, and stick to the plan, through thick or thin, While also continuously learning from mistakes and improving.

Uncertainty... it took me 5 years to stop trying to predict what bout to happen in market based on charts studying, cause you never know. not having a mentor cost me 5 years of pain I learn to go we’re the market is wanting to go and keep it simple with discipline.

Could you kindly elaborate on the advisor's background and qualifications?

Finding financial advisors like Annette Christine Conte, who can assist you on things like investing, insurance, making sure retirement is well funded, going over tax benefits, ways to have a volatility buffer for investment risk would be a very creative option. There will be difficult times ahead, and prudent personal money management will be essential to navigating them.

Just ran an online search on her name and came across her websiite; pretty well educated. thank you for sharing.

40% of imports to US come through California ports, California leads the US in production of dairy, almonds, and grapes, and it's the largest sub-national economy in the world (bigger than the UK, France and South Korea). I think the rest of the US need California more than the other way around.

And you can stop using anything from California? Iphone? RU-vid? The computer that you put your stupid thought out to the world?

Thank you for leaving no one cares lol. Its all the same lol

Is that a good or bad thing? Do you want Steve to tan your hide? Are you mad that he tanned your hide? Please explain your statement.

Well that's politicians the world over

They can't keep the lights on......

Installation costs would be prohibitive, so won't ever happen.

Europe is more densely populated and has smaller distances than North America.

But where does the electricity come from? The air? Europe has nuclear power-plants. California doesn't. (And don't give me 'solar and wind-power, either'; those will never generate sufficient power for even a single locomotive, let alone a fleet of them. Not now, not a thousand years from now.) Even as things are now the state can't even generate enough power to keep the lights on during peak-hours. (Which is why the power-company tells you turn your air-conditioning & other appliances off during heat-waves.)

@@EllieMaes-Grandad the US once led the world in railway electrification, i.e. the Milwaukee Road. What happened?

First you have to believe their votes were legitimate. Many suggest votes are not secure.

The license fee pays for paramedics that respond to traffic collisions for one. I live in a rural area and that funding is essential in providing emergency medical services for our highways. I'm retired from the U.S. Forest Service and as a result I took the training to become an EMT. EMS on California highways is a cut above all the other states I've lived in. That license fee also partially funds the CHP, the best state police agency of the 4 states I've lived and worked in. CHP helicopters are essential for providing air support for search and rescues in remote areas. They are also available for long pursuits in rural counties who as a group can't afford any aviation resources. The CHP aircraft services saves lives hundreds of times per year. The CHP does not charge the counties for providing air support. Those counties could not afford to pay for aviation resources provided by the CHP. I think of all of this when I pay the several hundred dollars in license fees for my 3 (soon to be 2) cars each year.

You are complaining about less than $.50/day for registration of your motorcycle?

That's if it's road every day. Same fee for 1 month or whole year. I have an old Honda 100 I'd like to ride in the summer. Registration and insurance about $500. About what the bike is worth.

He tried....but failed.

He regularly talks out both sides of his mouth...I have little respect for him

Which product was this?

@@Nick-ue7iw Battery powered exit lights. The national standard was 90 minutes but Chicago wouldn't allow anything less than 2 hours. Gradually all the manufacturers came to the same conclusion that it made no sense to make 2 virtually identical products just to satisfy a single market.

but that would require a backbone and actual leadership. It'll upset the ESG investors!

People believe their currency has the worth it does because they have no other option. Even in a hyperinflationary environment,

I agree with you and I believe that the secret to financial stability is having the right investment ideas to enable you earn more money, I don’t know who agrees with me but either way I recommend either real estate or bitcoin and stocks..

You're absolutely right, to be a successful in life required not only hard work but awareness and sometime opportunity at the moment, investment remains the best way to start.

I agree with you. Investment is the key to sustaining your financial longevity. And not just any investment but an investment with guaranteed return.

Exactly and many of us don't know where to invest our money so we invest it on wrong place and to the wrong people

Because NYC's electric lines were built over a hundred years ago, when America could actually build things. Cali has spent my whole lifetime+ trying to run ONE high speed rail and failing. Why do you assume modern America can achieve this?

Ummmm….NEVER.

I have live in California for almost 50 years, and aside from a couple of blackouts, I have never experienced regular power outages.