Posted on 05/22/2025 8:32:39 PM PDT by bitt
The Senate has voted to overturn the electric vehicle mandate in the state of California. This is going to cause some major anger and anxiety among the climate change activist community.
The EV mandate was one of the last things Joe Biden signed before leaving office. You may recall a last minute push by Biden’s team to advance as much climate change related legislation as they could during his final weeks in office.
The resolution to overturn the mandate passed along party lines with one Democrat senator voting for it as well.
The Washington Free Beacon reported:
Senate Votes To Overturn California’s EV Mandate in Resounding Defeat for Climate Activists
The Senate approved a resolution Thursday that would revoke California’s federal waiver allowing it and several other Democratic-led states to mandate electric vehicle sales, dealing a blow to activists’ efforts to push green energy and fight global warming.
The resolution, introduced by Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R., W.Va.) in April, passed in a bipartisan 51-44 vote Thursday morning. Just one Democrat, Sen. Elissa Slotkin (Mich.), voted in favor of the resolution alongside every Republican who voted. Five lawmakers were absent from the vote.
“The impact of California’s waiver would have been felt across the country, harming multiple sectors of our economy and costing hundreds of thousands of jobs in the process,” said Capito, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
The vote is a significant loss for both California, which passed its EV mandate in 2022, and for climate activists who loudly defended the law…
Thursday’s vote is also a win for President Donald Trump and other critics of policies forcing consumers to buy EVs. On the campaign trail, Trump said the “crazed concept of ‘all Electric Cars’” would devastate auto workers and decimate Michigan’s auto industry.
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It was funny to see AG rob bonta and the environuts whining about this on the capitol steps and how they are filing a lawsuit.
They seem to think once a regulation is enacted that it is carved in stone like the 10 commandments and cannot be rescinded, even by General DeGaulle. And perhaps that was the case when Tip O’Neill ran the House.
There is no reason that California should be allowed to dictate environmental policy for the entire country. It is one thing to add smog inspections - it is another to force everyone to buy electric cars that nobody wants.
They seem to think once a regulation is enacted that it is carved in stone like the 10 commandments and cannot be rescinded
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Correction - only regulation enacted by democrats.
Trump’s regulations are all illegal and must be rescinded!
“Gentleman, start your engines!”
Hooray!
A bunch of NE states had passed legislation a/o enacted EO’s to mandate copycatting Californication standards.
Totally unconstitutional compacts.
The 6th paragraph said “and several other Demicrat-led states” (planned to follow the electric car mandate). Wasn’t something like 19 Dem states total?
This will be a very useful tool to help turn Michigan red.
Now do New Mexico. Our frickin’ CommuNazi Gobanodora’s mandates go into effect next year.
The Climate Hoax needs to be killed!
One of the biggest money laundries in history.
“The EV mandate was one of the last things the auto pen signed before Joe Biden left office.
It’s 11 states other than California, plus DC :
https://www.thecentersquare.com/california/article_d484081a-d036-4b68-964d-6d5085b81df8.html
FYI, here’s some links to “opinion piece” movies about electric cars. I’m sure the saga will continue. That’s what the lefties do :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenge_of_the_Electric_Car
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Killed_the_Electric_Car%3F
Perhaps the batteries for these cars can be repurposed for high-capacity smartphone batteries.
“Regulations are living documents. Just like you think the Constitution works.” Just stand back a little when you tell a liberal that, just in case the head explodes when it sinks in.
Slotkin knew what she was doing by voting that way. The UAW would’ve made sure she lost reelection.
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