Posted on 08/24/2022 9:26:40 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
WASHINGTON — California on Thursday is expected to put into effect its sweeping plan to prohibit the sale of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035, a groundbreaking move that could have major effects on the effort to fight climate change and accelerate a global transition toward electric vehicles.
“This is huge,” said Margo Oge, an electric vehicles expert who headed the Environmental Protection Agency’s transportation emissions program under Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. “California will now be the only government in the world that mandates zero-emission vehicles. It is unique.”
The rule, issued by the California Air Resources Board, will require that 100 percent of all new cars sold in the state by 2035 be free of the fossil fuel emissions chiefly responsible for warming the planet, up from 12 percent today. It sets interim targets requiring that 35 percent of new passenger vehicles sold in the state by 2026 produce zero emissions. That would climb to 68 percent by 2030.
The restrictions are important because not only is California the largest auto market in the United States, but more than a dozen other states typically follow California’s lead when setting their own auto emissions standards.
“The climate crisis is solvable if we focus on the big, bold steps necessary to stem the tide of carbon pollution,” Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, said in a statement.
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Good screen name.
We are so screwed.
LOL. The great quake can’t come fast enough to fix that mess out there.
Cuba on the Pacific.
They are mad.
Not just power mad.
They are mad-hatter level mad.
Does the zero emissions target include the generating of electricity for the battery “powered” cars?
What about trucks, tractors, construction equipment? Generators? Aircraft?
Will the ban apply to fire and police?
Knowing Cali, probably so.
Is this true: the new vehicles will create zero emissions?
The reason I ask is because this sounds like something a politician in California would say to his dumb constituents.
I remember when the GM EV-1 came out in 1996 and died on the vine. California was proclaiming even then that they’d be all electric by 2020.
Does the zero emissions target include the generating of electricity for the battery “powered” cars?
of course not libs cant think that far ahead..
Margo Oge, an electric vehicles expert who headed the Environmental Protection Agency’s transportation emissions program under Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
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The Uniparty is real.
what about forest fires, volcanoes and the sh#t that floats over from Red China..which is about 20 to 30% of the air pollution.
Might as well mandate wind-powered cars.
Drive across the border and buy them from neighboring states.
As electric vehicles will have long proved impractical by 2035, the actual result will be NOBODY IN CALIFORNIA WILL BE ALLOWED A PERSONAL VEHICLE.
Get ready for life in a return to the Nineteenth Century.
don’t worry, all those things will be outlawed too!!
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