Yahoo Autos 12 States Seek To Kill Gas Cars Nationwide
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This will affect everyone…
With the news of Washington State looking to ban the sale of new internal-combustion-engine vehicles by 2030, 10 additional states and California have decided they want to capitalize on the publicity. Those dozen states announced they will be linking up to kill off new gas and diesel car sales by 2035, forcing anyone who shops within their borders to buy an electric vehicle instead. But wait, it gets better.
Toyota has been warning against this. Read why here.
The states joining in this ban aren’t really a surprise, except for maybe one: California, New Mexico, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maine, Hawaii, Connecticut, New York, Oregon, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Washington. That means the entire western coast of the United States will supposedly be an EV paradise starting in 2035, unless by some weird turn of events there isn’t the capacity to manufacture enough batteries or city power grids fail catastrophically.
The dozen states not only want to ban the sale of new gas cars within their borders, the coalition asked that the Biden administration introduce standards which would force the rest of the country to do the same. Yes, you read that correctly, it’s not enough to impose this on the residents of these states, whether they like it or not, it must be foisted upon states which don’t want a ban. Perhaps the coalition realizes their citizens could easily go to another state and buy a gas-burning car there, destroying their blockade.
Promoters of this plan argue that air pollution affects everyone, so only having some states choose to force their citizens to buy electric cars isn’t good enough. Instead, the federal government must force all states to force their citizens to buy vehicles deemed “clean” enough to be driven on public roads.
The hope is this shift toward forced electrification, instead of letting the market decide when consumers will start buying EVs, can be tied to the $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan the White House has been working on. At present, that plan calls for $174 billion in spending and tax credits to promote electric car adoption and establish charging stations.
