Posted on 04/01/2024 9:18:54 AM PDT by bitt
The war on gas-powered vehicles continues.
While the White House recently released new rules to phase out gas-powered vehicles by 2032, several states have gone further.
Eight states plan to completely ban the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035, the U.K.’s Daily Mail reported. Who’s leading the charge, you might ask?
Why, it’s California, of course!
They are joined by Rhode Island, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Washington. Washington, D.C., has also committed to the ban, according to Money.
If you live in one of these states, you won’t be forced to take your gas-powered car off the road and can still buy these automobiles used or secondhand.
But what does this mean for consumers in those states?
Electric vehicles already cost more to buy than gas-powered vehicles. And while the argument has repeatedly been made that charging can save consumers money over time, there are countless stories of charging nightmares: from homes catching fire, to broken charging stations, to long charging times, to power grids unable to support the charging infrastructure.
All of the above issues cost consumers more money and time, not to mention how much replacing a battery in an EV can cost.
Also, when looking at the manufacturing of these vehicles — the mining to produce the lithium-ion batteries, the factory production of the vehicles — pollution still exists, and it doesn’t seem to reduce much of anything. In fact, per Earth.org, “Almost 4 tonnes of CO2 are released during the production process of a single electric car and, in order to break even, the vehicle must be used for at least 8 years to offset the initial emissions by 0.5 tonnes of prevented emissions annually.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...
It'll be interesting to see what those eight state's VOTERS will have to say!
No need - just VOTE!
Yet!
Are you limited to yearly mileage?
bttt
Why would anyone be limited to how much they can travel?
What the he!! is going on around here?
I have a 2002 Chevy short box PU.Small block V8.Still runs like a top and looks almost new.
The can ban all thenew gasoline powered vehicles they want. Mine will run for another 40 years .Thee isn’t a single electric vehicle made today that can run for 60 years, even with proper servicing and upkeep.
My Chevy will be going long after todays EVs turn into piles of lithium rusted steel.
that is true- many poor people stay poor by continuing to smoke- but many have also quit being forced to consider family over personal gratification because smoking became too expensive
We DID vote and got cheated out of it!
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C. S. Lewis
Oh, that’s what you mean. It’s completely ignored around here
Such a ban is unconstitutional.
“Lights, horn and brakes only.”
Tires/wheels, Mirrors, exhaust, gas cap, windows/TINTING
Here in TN we dropped our tests.
That idea of banning the registration sounded too far reaching so I had to look it up. You are correct! No new cars registered after 2030. Crazy. Luckily my uncle has a country place...
https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/washington-state-to-phase-out-sales-of-gas-powered-cars-by-2030
April 11, 2022
OLYMPIA, Wash. - Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law last month a bill that sets a date of 2030 for all new cars registered in Washington state to be electric.
According to the bill, this applies to all vehicles of the model year 2030 or later that are sold, purchased or registered in the state.
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