{"id":79782,"date":"2021-10-19T07:30:06","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T12:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79782"},"modified":"2021-10-19T07:30:17","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T12:30:17","slug":"unintended-consequences-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=79782","title":{"rendered":"Unintended Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This article claims the reason for container ship backlog is not a labor shortage, it&#8217;s a second-order effect of a <a href=\"https:\/\/theconservativetreehouse.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/14\/the-california-version-of-the-green-new-deal-and-an-october-16-2020-epa-settlement-with-transportation-is-whats-creating-the-container-shipping-backlog-working-ca-ports-24-7-will-not-help-here\/\">California environmental regulation<\/a>.  Seems California will only allow certain low-emission vehicles in the dock area to cut back on air pollution, and there aren&#8217;t enough qualifying vehicles to meet the demand to unload the ships.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I have no idea if it&#8217;s true.  But it sounds plausible, right in line with proposals to ban lawnmowers and cow farts, to derive the energy to charge electric vehicles from wind and sun without a single thought of what happens to civilization when that plan doesn&#8217;t work. SITD readers understand second-order effects; California officials, not so much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;m not worried, though.  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitchy.com\/dougp-3137\/2021\/10\/14\/politico-explains-transportation-secretary-pete-buttigiegs-whereabouts-for-the-last-2-months\/\">Mayor Pete will be back soon<\/a>.  Should be fixed in a jiffy. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Seems plausible &#8211; I\u2019d be looking for some corroboration, but then so is Joe \u2013 but I suspect it\u2019s a perfect storm of side effects from poorly conceived regulations.<\/p><p><\/p><p>Another one that I\u2019ve heard blamed:  California ports don\u2019t allow trucks run by independent owner operators; they have to be unionized haulers. Who are a small minority of the nations trucking industry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: This article claims the reason for container ship backlog is not a labor shortage, it&#8217;s a second-order effect of a California environmental regulation. Seems California will only allow certain low-emission vehicles in the dock area to cut back on air pollution, and there aren&#8217;t enough qualifying vehicles to meet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-back-to-the-70s","category-economy-and-the-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79783,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79782\/revisions\/79783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}