Posted on 10/18/2020 9:31:16 AM PDT by rktman
Flanked by four expensive electric vehicles, California Governor Gavin Newsom recently announced the signing of a new executive order.
He promised this action would bring “an abundance of new choices and new technologies” and then proceeded to break some news.
First, he declared, “by 2035 we will eliminate in the State of California the sale of the internal combustion engine.”
Under the auspices of promoting choice and technology, Newsom effectively set in motion the elimination of the most affordable and reliable transportation option for Californians.
It does not take an accountant or an economist to know that life in California is not cheap. Neither is a Tesla. One statistic tells the story: Nearly 80 percent of federal electric vehicle tax credits have been claimed by people making $100,000 or more.
But the governor was not finished. For good measure, he told reporters about his commitment “to phase out fracking” in California.
When is California going to put up the walls to keep its people from escaping paradise?
They actually have, in a way. They’ve proposed a wealth tax such that “A person subject to the tax who chooses to leave the state will still be subject to it for ten years, at a sliding scale, amounting to a 1.80 percent exit tax, as Figure A shows. Understatement of tax would carry a penalty of the greater of $1 million or 20 percent of the tax due, on top of existing tax penalties.”
“California’s Energy Dreamin’(No Gas gavin)”
Actually Gavin Nobrain has tons of noxious gas emanating from his mouth.
*(Provided you want to go from Bakersfield to Merced and you don't mind paying $hundreds, and don't mind waiting a few days.)
But there is a “recall” lurking around him.
Newsom really truly believes his deliberate actions during the Covid Cootie debacle and his unwaiving support of the tenets of the secular religion of environmentalism will put him in a position to win the Democrat/Left/Communist Party’s nomination for president in 2024.
Aren’t climate clocks indicating that the earth will cease to exist as a consequence of climate change well before 2035? /sarc
So what is Gov. Newsom talking about?
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