Here is what one ABQ Journal editorial cartoonist thinks of NM's interstate commence future, except we don't have to wait until 2030:
Posted on 11/17/2023 12:09:19 PM PST by CedarDave
The state Environmental Improvement Board split 3-2 and the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Air Quality Control Board voted unanimously Thursday night to adopt the rule.
Dubbed the Advanced Clean Cars and Trucks rule, it aligns with California's standards and is part of the larger effort to cut planet-warming greenhouse gases as well as ground-level ozone and particulates that can cause respiratory problems.
The rule calls for 43% of new cars and light-duty trucks delivered to New Mexico to be electric models by 2026 and 82% by 2032. At the same time, 15% to 20% of new, heavier-duty commercial trucks delivered to the state must be electric by 2026, and 40% to 70% must be zero-emissions by 2034, depending on their class.
Advocates contend supplying more zero-emission vehicles is vital to combat climate change and protect public health, while car dealers fiercely oppose a government mandate they say will force them to carry far more of the vehicles than they can sell.
Still, auto dealers made dire predictions of how the rule will hurt their businesses and further reduce rural residents' already slim choices for cars. If customers can't get the internal-combustion cars they want, they won't settle for electric vehicles but instead will go buy gasoline cars in other states, the dealers said.
Clifton Horace, a Farmington car dealer, estimated that if he is forced to make electric vehicles 43% of his inventory, his gas-powered cars will run out within seven months after the rule goes into effect.
He called that "a death spiral."
"When you hear and feel pushback from dealers, it's not about EVs — there's nothing political about it," Horace said. "It's just simply we are fearful it will put us in a position that we've reduced the choices that our customers have to literally zero."
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Here is what one ABQ Journal editorial cartoonist thinks of NM's interstate commence future, except we don't have to wait until 2030:
Lots of burning vehicles coming to WOKE New Mexico.
BTW, Oil Patch City (AKA Hobbs) located four miles from the Texas state line has cannabis stores on every corner, 33 at latest count and more coming. The abortion clinics are so far limited to ABQ and Las Cruces but the Marxist midget in Santa Fe and the state AG are pushing them in smaller communities when they aren’t too busy taking away the right to carry a gun for self defense.
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I assume there are dozens of charging stations every two miles along the I-10 corridor....................
Maybe this will be a catalyst for those idiots that vote in these loons and will give them the common sense they lack and vote these vermin OUT!!!
Seriously, making an EV probably creates as much pollution as running an ICE car. EV's are great for some use cases. But it's crazy talk to believe they save the world from some non-existent warmageddon.
I believe they'll be like natural gas. The Dims who today push people to EV's will be the same Dims who later will impose fines on EV's saying they're killing us all. Much like the Dims punish people today for switching over to natural gas even though the Dims recently were pushing the use of "clean burning natural gas".
..and we see this post on the day GM announces they have 96,000 EVs that are not selling and so they are quitting EVs and Ford has given up. This will be interesting. Back to horses, I think.
“come on over baby, a whole lotta walkin’ goin’on”.
Only Joe Bidens policies could bring Buggy Whips back when all is said and done.....
Oh really? How is NM going to do that? Effing morons.
Cheers heard from car dealers in Arizona, Colorado and Texas.
People will buy up the 57% and the 43% will rot on the lots ,LOL
Ha. The Burqueños will love that. New car sales drop by 43% in 2026.
Clean car rule , did they get this from Nancy ,LOL
LOL. Over the 140 mile distance between Clines Corners and Roswell, there are only two gas stations, both in Vaughn. Except for the small village of Encino west of Vaughn, there are absolutely no communities over that distance. Even at 70 mph, it takes two hours to travel those miles. Last weekend when I stopped in Vaughn, the local Allsups convenience store was constructing two EV charging stations. It will take a lot longer to charge than to fill up with 15 gallons of gas.
Two?
Not two dozen?...............................😜
Here’s hoping!
No dealer in the state should sell any gasoline or diesel vehicles to any government agency in the state. Not one. Force them to buy EVs and make the Governor deal with the flak.
can they force people to AFFORD THEM???
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