Dave
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I avoid things political so if this is considered such please delete it.
I have seen some of this story on the national news. So there is a "Cap and Trade" bill in the Oregon legislator. The vote is going down party lines. The GOP senators have left the state. This has created a lack of a quorum in the state senate. This legislative session ends the end of the month. If they stay gone until July 1 this bill won't pass. Rural Oregon is very much opposed to this bill and that is where the GOP senators are from. In Oregon the Portland, Salem, and Eugene area has by far the most population. They elect Dems. The rest of Oregon elect GOP. But beings as those area out number the rest of the state they get to pass the laws that everyone else has to live with.
The reasons that Rural Oregon is opposed to this bill include but are not limited to: a $1.00 per gallon raise in fuel tax on diesel fuel, and no diesel powered engines older that 2007 would be allowed to be used. This means pickups, trucks, tractors, and heavy equipment. That would put the logging industry out of business. Lots of farmers would have to shut down too.
For me I have a diesel pickup and two tractors that are all older than 2007. I don't know what they would do on the licensing of the pick up. For the the fuel I can solve that easy enough. It is 30 miles to the nearest gas station in Oregon. It is 50 miles to Idaho and I have a 110 gallon transfer tank that I would set in the back of the pickup. Most of the rest of the state is not in that situation. Some logger in Southwest Oregon can't drive 400 miles each way to get fuel.
The governor sent the state police out to drag those senators back to the capital. In cuffs if necessary. So that is a good part of why the Oregon senators are living in Idaho this week.
I have seen some of this story on the national news. So there is a "Cap and Trade" bill in the Oregon legislator. The vote is going down party lines. The GOP senators have left the state. This has created a lack of a quorum in the state senate. This legislative session ends the end of the month. If they stay gone until July 1 this bill won't pass. Rural Oregon is very much opposed to this bill and that is where the GOP senators are from. In Oregon the Portland, Salem, and Eugene area has by far the most population. They elect Dems. The rest of Oregon elect GOP. But beings as those area out number the rest of the state they get to pass the laws that everyone else has to live with.
The reasons that Rural Oregon is opposed to this bill include but are not limited to: a $1.00 per gallon raise in fuel tax on diesel fuel, and no diesel powered engines older that 2007 would be allowed to be used. This means pickups, trucks, tractors, and heavy equipment. That would put the logging industry out of business. Lots of farmers would have to shut down too.
For me I have a diesel pickup and two tractors that are all older than 2007. I don't know what they would do on the licensing of the pick up. For the the fuel I can solve that easy enough. It is 30 miles to the nearest gas station in Oregon. It is 50 miles to Idaho and I have a 110 gallon transfer tank that I would set in the back of the pickup. Most of the rest of the state is not in that situation. Some logger in Southwest Oregon can't drive 400 miles each way to get fuel.
The governor sent the state police out to drag those senators back to the capital. In cuffs if necessary. So that is a good part of why the Oregon senators are living in Idaho this week.
