Posted on 09/24/2020 7:46:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-Calif.), perhaps unsatisfied with the misery of rolling blackouts to which ill-considered climate restrictions have subjected Californians, has ordered that no new gas-powered cars shall be sold in California beginning in the year 2035. What could possibly go wrong?
California “is phasing out the internal combustion engine,” the governor tweeted in announcing his sweeping executive order. “By 2035 every new car sold in CA will be an emission free vehicle. Cars shouldnt give our kids asthma. Make wildfires worse. Melt glaciers. Or raise sea levels.”
NEW: Were facing a climate crisis.
We need bold action.
CA is phasing out the internal combustion engine.⁰
By 2035 every new car sold in CA will be an emission free vehicle.Cars shouldnt give our kids asthma.
Make wildfires worse.⁰
Melt glaciers.Or raise sea levels.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) September 23, 2020
Newsom’s executive order requires that “sales of all new passenger vehicles” must be “zero-emission by 2035.” Through the order, Newsom directed the Air Resources Board to develop regulations to ensure that “all operations of medium- and heavy-duty vehicles shall be 100 percent zero emission by 2045 where feasible.”
The governor’s office claimed that the transportation sector is responsible for more than half of California’s carbon pollution, 80 percent of smog-forming pollution, and 95 percent of “toxic diesel emissions.”
“This is the most impactful step our state can take to fight climate change,” Newsom said in a statement. “For too many decades, we have allowed cars to pollute the air that our children and families breathe. Californians shouldnt have to worry if our cars are giving our kids asthma. Our cars shouldnt make wildfires worse
(Excerpt) Read more at pjmedia.com ...
This has everything to do with the intense corruption in California and its utilities regulation, and precious little to do with ecology. No California politician including Newsome has cleaned up the utilities regulation stink (Rather they clean up FROM it). Highest rates and very poor, unreliable service but theres billions and billions of dollars being made by Politicians regulators And utilities executives. Off the backs of working Californians
He can’t do that.
Only the Feds can regulate interstate commerce.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.