House Votes to Overturn California’s Ban on Gas Cars

Unleash Prosperity ^ | 05/02/2025 | Stephen Moore

[SeekAndFind]

We have been strong supporters of this Congressional Review Act effort because the automobile market is clearly interstate commerce. And Biden let Calfiornia take the lead to eventually ban internal combustion vehicles nationally.

Banning gas cars is wildly unpopular. This may explain why every House Republican and 35 House Democrats – the biggest bipartisan vote on a green issue in recent memory – voted to let Americans drive the car of their choice.

These are the 35 Democrats who voted yes, including two from California and six from New York:

Next up is the Senate. Maybe.

The Senate Parliamentarian is reportedly taking the puzzling view that even though the EPA has validly transmitted the waiver as a rule under the Congressional Review Act, the GAO’s legal opinion overrides that submission. This is despite the fact that the GAO’s report – issued at the request of Democrats seeking to sabotage this Senate vote – includes a footnote that confesses the GAO has no role once the agency has submitted to Congress:

[GaltAdonis]

But gasoline internal combustion cars are going to destroy the entire solar
system and poison the Milky Way galaxy leading to galactic Armageddon, right?
How could those evil Congress people actually vote for this? Eh?

(Are you detecting just a hint of sarcasm in my devious typing fingers?)

[MinorityRepublican]

What about the filibuster in the Senate?

[SpaceBar]

The government banning a means of locomotion is pretty weird in itself.

Never in history has there been such insane and arbitrary ‘soft’ tyranny.

[rottndog]

I think they should let the ban take effect...and then watch Kalifornia crumble to dust afterward.

Of course I predict Kalifornia itself will delay or repeal the ban when it becomes obvious that the state can’t function on EVs.

[USS Alaska]

The Senate Parliamentarian is a communist demonRAT.

[Lurker]

I’d rather see a Federal ban on shipping petroleum products into California that goes into effect immediately.

All petroleum products AND any derivatives of petroleum.

If Californians want to live in the 17th century I say we oblige them.

L

[mewzilla]

Paging NYS gov Kathy Hochul...

[oldtech]

California should have no say on what the rest of the nation decides to drive. They can’t get their own house in order. Just wait until there are many used EVs on car lots. They will be hard to give away I would think.

[SPDSHDW]

State cannot function now. It’s got rolling blackouts, constant grid issues, and twice now their Tesla super battery at Moss Landing(Near Monterey Bay) has literally gone up in smoke.

We’ve had more blackouts in the last 5 years in San Jose, CA then I remember in the rest of my entire life.

[SPDSHDW]

Best thing for The Country and Specifically CA, is to eradicate the cancer known as California Air Resource Board, and ban any ability for any state to set more stringent regulations then federal.

That one act alone will fix a good chunk of CA’s current problems, directly or indirectly.

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Let them filibuster.