Posted on 03/14/2023 12:26:09 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Maryland will become the latest state to adopt the clean-car rules that originated in California, phasing out new gas-powered car sales by 2035, Gov. Wes Moore (D) announced Monday.
The Advanced Clean Cars II rule, first implemented in California in 2022 under a provision of the Clean Air Act, allows states to impose stricter car standards than their federal counterparts. The standards are not retroactive to existing cars or to used car sales.
“Today, we’re talking about a major transformation that is going to define this administration—and that’s how we turn Maryland from a state powered by oil and gas to a state powered by clean energy,” Moore said in a statement. “I am confident that the state of Maryland can and will lead the clean energy revolution.”
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I wonder what will happen in 2035?
Will we have a patchwork quilt map of states, which will show the liberal states are banning internal combustion engine vehicles, while more conservative states still allow same?
This could get ugly, as we are compelled/forced, whatever the right term is, to get electric cars, whether we want them or not, whether the electrical grid can handle the charging of those vehicles or not.
MD ping!
1. No government at the state level or any level has any business telling people how to live their lives, including what kind of car they can or can't drive.
2. As much as my wife and I like our EV, EV's aren't good for all situations. In fact, we have an old used ICE pickup in part for the trips we take that an EV isn't good for. And that's with us living in the south. If we lived up north (i.e. Maryland) where it's often too cold for EV's we probably wouldn't have one. And don't get me started on EV trucks not being half as good as an ICE EV when hauling cargo more than 100 miles.
Well, this can be a good thing!
How many of the Washington, DC swamp creatures live in Maryland? Hundreds of thousands.
When they aren’t able to get to work because of cold weather and no electricity then we will be free of their stupidity for those days, weeks, months............
Great ideas sell themselves they don’t have to be shoved down peoples throats.
Out of control government is out of control.
How about trying to take a driving vacation with your ICE car & no gas stations???
Governments grabbing power they have NO RIGHT to have
I prefer the phase out of Marxist governors......
Gas cars will become much more valuable when you can’t get a new one. Of course, getting parts might be a problem.
That could be some of the fallout from all of this. Will gas stations be eventually phased out or severely restricted? So that you won’t be able to refuel your gasoline powered car, which would then be part of the incentive to get an electric car?
Watch out Forcing EVs will be the new version of the “VAX Mandate”
EVs are Safe and Effective.
By 2035 all this will be a dead letter. We will be too busy trying to survive, much less “go green.”
It is going to fail. Of its own accord.
The infrastructure will not be in place until 2150 at the earliest. It takes 40 minutes to fill an EV to get 400 miles. It takes 5 to do that now using gasoline.
Most gasoline stations have 10 to 24 pumps. EV has 1 or 2 per charging station. This plan means people will be spending 4 to 6 hours in line to get charged.
Electric cars are a DEAD-END
Clown governor.
Maryland doesn’t have the MW-carrying capacity to support it.
Who is going to pay for the billions of small batteries in the battery packs of these cars to recycle them or dispose of them. Each Tesla has about 7800 of the little D size cell in the battery packs and they are exchanged every 30k miles. The billions of little batteries are an ecological nightmare and expensive to dispose of. None of the Climate activists have mentioned anything about them.
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