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Oct 1, 2026
Mike MangesHOST
Today we're joined by Roy Littlefield IV, vice president of government relations for the Tire Industry Association, who provides expert insight into the potential impact of the state of California's tire fuel efficiency mandate on tire dealers operating in that state.
Mike MangesHOST
Tia has been in talks with the California Energy Commission for several years, working to ensure that the interests of tire dealers were represented and protected throughout the development of the fuel efficiency mandate.
Mike MangesHOST
And Roy has been one of the prime players in those negotiations, helping to secure several big wins for California tire dealers.
Mike MangesHOST
This episode is the latest installment in MTD's in-depth continuing coverage of the California fuel efficiency mandate and is a must listen, not just for tire dealers in California, but tire dealers across the country.
Mike MangesHOST
I'm referring to the state of California's tire fuel efficiency mandate that when enacted will have major ramifications for tire dealers and also potentially independent tire dealers.
Mike MangesHOST
As you know, MTDs cover this story very extensively, and I would refer listeners of the Modern Tire Dealer Show to several updates we've recently posted on ModernTireDealer.com if they're looking for the latest.
Mike MangesHOST
More recently, I also understand that TIA, in working with the California Energy Commission, was able to secure some very important carve-outs that will help tire dealers get If I'm not mistaken, there were certain requirements that would have placed unnecessary burdens on members of our audience and readers of MTD.
Mike MangesHOST
Can you talk about those carve-outs that Tia was able
David TangipaGUEST
They're not there to actually do the real job, and it's, it's just like what's happened with, um...
David TangipaGUEST
Y- remember the tire regulation that came out and banned 70% of the tires? What most people don't know is that comes from the California Energy Commission.
David TangipaGUEST
Those commissioners make about $200,000 a year, and they have seven required meetings a year.
David TangipaGUEST
Three of the seven happen in the month of October.
Mike ArizaGUEST
And you're done.
Mike ArizaGUEST
California Energy Commission, you're done.
Mike ArizaGUEST
We're still using 58 million gallons of fuel a day.
Mike ArizaGUEST
We use more gasoline only behind Texas every day.
Dale BlankenshipHOST
And yeah, that system still exists.
Dale BlankenshipHOST
California's own Energy Commission still directs hydrogen drivers to station operational status system for the real-time availability.
Dale BlankenshipHOST
Think about that for a second.
Dale BlankenshipHOST
You own a car with range of, say, several hundred miles and a five-minute refueling time.
Laurel Glass-LeesGUEST
But what are you doing as a developer above and beyond what's base necessity? And the long term generational jobs is extraordinarily important.
Laurel Glass-LeesGUEST
So I would encourage like listeners to go to the Willow Rock Project, the California Energy Commission's final decision and go to where it's obviously it's summarizing environmental impacts, which.
Laurel Glass-LeesGUEST
Everything was mitigated to a level below significance other than visual resources, which I think tells the whole world.
Laurel Glass-LeesGUEST
They put some context around the fact that that is the only potentially admittable area.
Laurel Glass-LeesGUEST
And that means that we're.
Laurel Glass-LeesGUEST
where 50 megawatts or greater in the thermal technology.
Laurel Glass-LeesGUEST
So the California Energy Commission said that they have sole jurisdictional authority over our project.
Laurel Glass-LeesGUEST
And so it's a one-stop shop for all the permits, right? So like as a permitting person, if you were going to permit a project in California, you need not only like the development permit, which is a conditional use permit, and not only the CEQA document, which is an environmental impact report, but then you likely need A Clean Water Act 401 water quality certification or NPDES permit.
Mike ArizaGUEST
They need to be protected.
Mike ArizaGUEST
The California Air Resource Board, the California Energy Commission, and that clueless governor we have, and I mean absolutely clueless governor we have, they need to be pushed back.
Mike ArizaGUEST
Federal EPA standards need to be invoked for the refineries and all of its related infrastructure.
Mike ArizaGUEST
And then California needs to be switched over to federal reformulated fuel, reformulated gasoline, and throw this carbob blend out the window.
Ryan McMakenNARRATOR
California officials lead the nation in dreaming up heavy new burdens to lay on the state's residents and then claim that they are just trying to make people's lives better.
Ryan McMakenNARRATOR
In a recent ruling, the California Energy Commission has laid down new rules about replacement tires that California residents are allowed to buy after 2029.
Ryan McMakenNARRATOR
The agency declared, the tires that come on new cars are typically designed to give drivers better fuel mileage, but average replacement tires are less efficient, meaning that consumers often lose mileage and range when they replace their tires.
Ryan McMakenNARRATOR
These cost-saving standards are designed to ensure that replacement tires are at least as energy efficient on average as tires sold on new vehicles.
John KobyltHOST
You probably have heard by now, many of you have reacted very strongly to this.
John KobyltHOST
The California Energy Commission.
John KobyltHOST
has released a new policy and it in effect banned 70 of the tires that we now drive on if they're replacement tires they can't be sold there's two phases 20 29 20 20 33 and by the end of it 70 of the replacement tires that we all use uh no longer available And it's going to cost us hundreds of dollars more for these replacements.
John KobyltHOST
So says the California Energy Commission and Gavin Newsom, saying they're more energy efficient.
John KobyltHOST
It has to do with rolling resistance, how much energy it takes to keep a tire moving.
John KobyltHOST
Darren Thomas is the president and CEO of Dunlop Tires North America, and he has spoken out very strongly about this new policy this week.
Darren ThomasGUEST
And generally, when that technology is not needed in products, we don't put it in there because it is very expensive to process.
Darren ThomasGUEST
generally allows tires to wear a little bit faster, and we sacrifice other technical components of that tire as a result of those technologies.
Philip TeresiHOST
I mean, the IAEA would set its hair on fire if you were bleeding something dangerous into the environment, never mind the consequences if you were doing it right there on the water.
Philip TeresiHOST
But Hakan Williams from the Committee to Bridge the Gap says that he hopes that if the governor signs the bill, the California Energy Commission will complete the required study with rigor and neutrality, paying attention to what he says are serious challenges in the industry, and that this is critical in light of the state's push to expand capacity to meet the increasing pressure of artificial intelligence data centers.
Philip TeresiHOST
And Williams speculates that there's a big picture tendency to want to bend over backwards to accommodate the demands of the AI industry without considering whether we want or need to meet those demands on nuclear energy in particular.
Philip TeresiHOST
And he claims that the push for building nuclear is coming with the slashing of critical safety regulations, which is simply abjectly not true.
Mel KHOST
They signed on with the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
Mel KHOST
California designated CalEPA, the Natural Resource Agency of California and CARB and the Energy Commission for implementation as a partner of the Chinese Ministry of Ecology and Environment.
Mel KHOST
Uh, China is the top of the, uh, Agenda 2030 sustainable development goals 'cause that's the model that Bill Gates and Larry Fink and the Rockefellers and everyone think works the best, is the technocracy model that is fully running in China right now, built by these same people and their investments and their NGOs.
Mel KHOST
Uh, but, uh, California did that.
Mel KHOST
Then in 2023, Gavin Newsom took a trip to China and he signed five memorandums, uh, with the Chinese National Development and Reform Commission, uh, and five, uh, different, uh, areas and, uh, the agreements cover power sector decarbonization, energy planning, carbon markets, offshore wind, clean technology, methane, transportation electrification, ports, zero emission vehicles, climate adaptation and environmental regulations in California in tandem with China.
Mel KHOST
And in, uh, 2026, California's own materials list the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese, um, what's this called again? The Chinese energy, um, China's National Development and Reform Commission and their Energy Commission as partners.
Mel KHOST
So I'm not so sure how this is possible, but again, what comes up is Tsinghua University, T-S-I-N-G-H-U-A.
Mel KHOST
Well, they have an institute at Berkeley, the Shenzhen Institute, uh, where of course that's in San Francisco area, and essentially they are a dual use research group that links the Communist Chinese Party military affiliate at universities and blacklisted companies with the Berkeley Institute.
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