Posted on 01/14/2023 2:17:45 PM PST by Conservative4Life
The Wyoming Legislature is considering a resolution to phase out sales of new electric vehicles in the Cowboy State by 2035.
The resolution’s sponsors say Senate Joint Resolution 4 is a response to laws other states are implementing to eliminate gas-powered vehicles.
The resolution’s sponsor, Sen. Jim Anderson, R-Casper, told Cowboy State Daily the intention of the proposal, titled “Phasing Out New Electric Vehicle Sales By 2035,” is to push back against bans on new sales of cars with internal combustion engines in states like California and New York.
“The Legislature would be saying, ‘If you don’t like our petroleum cars, well, we don’t like your electric cars,’” Anderson said Impractical Vehicles
SJ 4 states that oil and gas production has been one of the Cowboy State’s “proud and valued industries” that has created “countless jobs” and revenues for Wyoming throughout its history.
The resolution also praises gas-powered vehicles for enabling the state’s industries and businesses to transport goods and resources throughout the nation.
It also notes a lack of electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, which would impede widespread use of electric vehicles, saying their use is “impractical.”
(Excerpt) Read more at cowboystatedaily.com ...
Might help keep the wrong kind of Californian from moving there :-)
Amen WY!! I love it when a state uses common sense instead of woketard policies!
One hapless EV owner wrote an article describing his recent 15 hour Cheyenne to Casper trip as road trip hell. EVs are not ready for prime time especially in the wide open space of states like Wyoming
Er sorry, Liz will never get elected in Wyoming again!! 🤓
How many electric pickups are there working in PT. Barrow or the Yukon. There’s your answer.
Gonna be a bummer for their golf courses....
The increase in State expenditures to maintain the infrastructure, add in additional emergency gear and personnel, and support increased local medical expenditures should call for a tax on all electric vehicles.
Maybe WY starts charging … $7500 per vehicle to make up for lost gas taxes and increased State safety expenditures.
Sounds like a plan that would stand up in court.
Why are EVs dangerous in emergency situation?
COWBOY BUMP!
“They tried electric vehicles 100 years ago. It didn’t work then and it doesn’t work now...and in the old days...they didn’t burst into flames.”
Yep, there were several EV manufacturers in the early 20th century. They had the same issues then as they do now with the exception of being a fireball on wheels.
When they catch fire, its considered HAZMAT and water makes it worse. BUT that’s not all, they are difficult to put out and have reignited on tow trucks torching them as well.
“Why are EVs dangerous in emergency situation?”
For starters we’d probably have grid collapse if everyone was told they had to evacuate at the same time, as they’d then be charging their EVs at the same time. And if we don’t have the collapse it will be due to high-level overrides of people attempting to charge (i.e., utilities only allowing as much charging as the grid permits) and that would result in many partially charged cars trying to get out at once, and then badly overloading charging stations.
Things like that...
The above link is interesting...you don’t have to read the whole thing to get the message. Electric vehicles will always have problems.
Sorry, as a true freedom-loving constitutionalist, this is just some weird tit-for-tat that has no place with capitalism.
Leave the tyrants to CA and NY.
I know all the arguments, and it doesn’t matter; government has no business forcing technology or trends.
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