Posted on 09/09/2021 2:16:31 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Signs Law Requiring Zero-Emission Vehicles By 2035
Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed legislation Wednesday requiring all new passenger cars and trucks sold in the state to be zero-emissions by 2035.
Under the new law, new off-road vehicles and equipment sold in New York are also targeted to be zero-emissions by 2035, and new medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicles by 2045. The law further requires the state’s Energy Research and Development Authority to create a zero-emissions vehicle development strategy by 2023.
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Upstate NY has been depopulating for the last 50 years. NY is a totally leftist state, controlled by NY City and, ironically, funded from state skimmings from Wall Street and its Oligarchs, and Fed.gov money every time an economic crisis occurs.
At the rate the country is going we will all be living in caves throwing excrement at each other by then, so this sounds doable!
Electric cars are NOT “zero emission”!
COAL!!!!
And their production uses Chinese materials, and is also far from “zero emission”!
Better stick to gasoline-powers vehicles! PHOOEY!!!!
Excellent!
Zero emissions = Zero traffic = Zero federal gas tax = Zero possibility...
Expect to do a lot of walking.
Looks like a lot of car dealers need to make plans to relocate to the border of New York for future sales.
How will those batteries perform in conditions where running a heater is necessary for life?
If NYS was totally leftist Deep State wouldn’t need to steal our elections.
And it has.
And what do you do when there is 9 inches of snow and 11 degrees?
Give em snow shovels and attach plows and switch over to studded bike tires.
Nothing is ‘zero’ emission
“...all new passenger cars and trucks sold in the state to be zero-emissions by 2035...”
Interesting reasoning, considering:
I’ve noticed that in NY, personal trucks/SUVs are rare ... while in GA, they make up 2/3rds of everything on the roads. NY has already made it unpalatable to “buy that medium duty truck”.
Which leads to my recurring observation in many circumstances: when one is relentlessly told they can do nothing right, one becomes inclined to doing the single thing they know they can do right - nothing.
NY has made gas-guzzlers and high-emission vehicles prohibitively expensive to drive.
NY is making sedans & smaller cars outright illegal to sell.
NY geography & weather is not friendly to electric vehicles (and I’m an EV enthusiast) nor mass transit nor individual vehicles (motorcycles, bicycles, etc).
That leaves transportation options of ... nothing.
The house may have dropped on the Wicked Witch of the East but he’s been replaced by the Wicked Witch of the West. “She’s far worse than the other one!”
The upstate population numbers show that people are voting with their feet:
Buffalo maxed out their population at 580,000 in 1950.
Currently the population is 278,000.
Rochester: 332,000 in 1950, now 211,000.
Syracuse: 220,000 in 1950, now 148,000
Albany (state capital): 134,000 in 1950, now 99,000.
That is what the leftists call “progress”.
Ha Ha! You never lived in Buffalo!
Next make a law requiring cars to have NEGATIVE emissions. Take the pollution out of the air.
Illegal but who cares anymore?
Vast majority of Americans are now rats following a piper.
Leftist are too stupid to know where electricity comes from while they preach fake science.
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