Posted on 03/22/2021 5:54:57 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Two politicians are urging the president to follow California's lead and set a date when people will no longer be allowed to buy new gasoline-powered vehicles.
The shift to electric vehicles is underway, but California's two U.S. senators are looking to expedite it: according to a report from the Reuters news service, the two senators are pressing President Biden to set a date by which new gasoline-powered vehicles will no longer be sold in the U.S. Last fall, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order banning the sale of new gas-powered vehicles beginning in 2035.
enators Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla sent the letter to President Biden today, asking the president to follow California’s lead on the transition to electric vehicles, Reuters reported. Biden hasn't said that he will commit to any timeline for a sales ban of gas-powered vehicles, but his campaign site during the Democratic primary did say he aimed to develop "rigorous new fuel-economy standards aimed at ensuring 100 percent of new sales for light- and medium-duty vehicles will be electrified." By lacking a timeline for that goal, Biden was in the minority of those in the Democratic primary.
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Last fall, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order banning the sale of new gas-powered vehicles beginning in 2035.
At the time he made this exec order, I heard NO ONE, in the media, or any politicians, question if the governor of a state has the authority to take action to ban the sale of certain cars in his state.
I realize it’s a liberal dream to just ban gas or diesel powered vehicles, however, do we have any sort of legal process anymore? A governor of a state can just decree that a certain product will be banned in his state, and nobody says anything against that action? Nobody even files a lawsuit over whether proper legal procedures, such as having the state legislature pass legislation, is needed?
Does anyone else see the problem here, of a governor ruling by decree?
I maintain that this is all about driving up the already overinflated price of Tesla stock.
My uncle has a country place
That no one knows about
He says it used to be a farm
Before the Motor Law
And on Sundays I elude the eyes
And hop the Turbine Freight
To far outside the Wire
Where my white-haired uncle waits
Jump to the ground
As the Turbo slows to cross the borderline
Run like the wind
As excitement shivers up and down my spine
Down in his barn
My uncle preserved for me an old machine
For fifty odd years
To keep it as new has been his dearest dream
I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time
I fire up the willing engine
Responding with a roar
Tires spitting gravel
I commit my weekly crime
Rush - Red Barchetta - 1981
Does Newsom, or anyone in authority, have any plans to overhaul and expand our electrical generating capacity, to recharge all these electric cars?
It is absurd to ban “fossil fuel” vehicles without having electrical capacity to recharge all the new electric vehicles.
Lunacy
Biden is doing it.
California can’t provide power to all of it’s residents now. What are they going to do when 20 million vehicles are plugged in at night.
Frankenswine can’t die soon enough.
Feinstein is senile and long past her expiration date. Even if every car in the country is EV, it will have NO effect on the “climate”.
OF COURSE he doesn’t! Democrats don’t think, they just emote.
2035? 2035?!? The world is going to end several years before we get to 2035!
Expected, now that we listened to Lin Wood and gave Democrats TOTAL CONTROL of the government. Might as well get used to plugging in your cars...assuming power is around for us, and we can even afford it.
But it's going to wreak hell on the electric grid!
It's not absurd, it's evil. They know what they are doing. If you think people would suddenly be without the ability to freely move about the country, you're right. That's the commie plan.
The game is not to build enough generating capacity. The plan is to limit the people’s access to individual means of transportation
You will not own a vehicle. You will purchase trips when necessary.
These planners are very serious about their goals.
These people should be in an asylum.
Bingo! It's to create a police state where movement is limited. You will have to show your papers in order to board trains, planes, and cabs between towns and states. And it becomes easier if they take away your private cars.
I guess we let them worry about their self-inflicted lunacy and insanity. Stupid people elect stupid people.
Yes, but it is the “progressive” thing to do.
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