If banning the internal combustion engine is such a good idea, then why the end run around Congress or the California legislature? Let's vote!
Washington Examiner (9/12/23) reports: "Three years ago, California announced it would ban the sale of new vehicles that run on gasoline, diesel, and biofuels by 2035, effectively mandating a 100% transition to electric vehicles. The plan is extreme, particularly given the glaring absence of sufficient EV charging infrastructure, EV supply chain uncertainties, and the state’s perpetually challenged electricity grid. But rather than learning from California’s example, the Environmental Protection Agency under President Joe Biden has decided to bring California’s policies mainstream with a national proposal to eliminate most new liquid-fuel-powered cars and trucks in an even tighter time frame. Everyone should be concerned that California’s extremism is going national and that the Biden administration is abusing the authority it’s been given to make this happen. For starters, banning traditional vehicles and, by extension, the American-made, American-grown fuels they run on, is unlawful. Setting transformative, economywide energy and transportation laws is Congress’s job, not the president’s, which the Supreme Court continues to reaffirm. This sweeping policy change also defies economic sense."
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"Industrial energy policy is not the only reason for the migration from California to Texas. California’s high taxes and high cost of housing are also factors. But the contrast between attitudes about transportation, looked at as a right and a key to the American dream, is stunning and a lesson to other states."
– Diana Furchtgott-Roth,
Heritage Foundation
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