Environmental
Should We Ban Gasoline-Powered Vehicles?
Should We Ban Gasoline-Powered Vehicles?
Here’s The Scoop
California’s radical regulators have struck again, voting to ban the sale of all new gasoline-powered vehicles by 2035 in a desperate attempt to tackle the so-called climate crisis.
Gasoline-run cars, trucks, and SUVs, which they claim are major producers of carbon emissions, are now in their crosshairs.
The new rule dictates that 100% of new vehicles sold in California by 2035 must not emit greenhouse gases. The California Air Resources Board has even set an interim goal of having 35% of new cars sold produce zero emissions by 2026, and 68% by 2030.
Fear not, drivers will still be able to operate their previously owned gasoline-powered vehicles and buy used gas-powered vehicles. The state is also generously allowing for some new cars sold to be hybrid gas-electric vehicles.
In the first three months of this year, only 16% of cars sold in California were electric. Over the past 12 years, the state has provided more than $1 billion in rebates for the sale of 478,000 electric, plug-in, or hybrid vehicles.
A critical hurdle California must overcome is expanding access to electric charging stations. Despite the $1 trillion infrastructure bill passed by Congress last year, the state will have to spend billions more to build a fully reliable charging network. Governor Gavin Newsom hopes to prioritize adding stations in low-income neighborhoods.
Newsom claims, “The climate crisis is solvable if we focus on the big, bold steps necessary to stem the tide of carbon pollution.”
This ban comes as the reliability of electric grids is questioned amid unprecedented weather events. Yet, the precedent set by California is likely to be followed by other states, spreading this misguided policy nationwide.
What do you think? Let us know by participating in our poll, or join the discussion in the comment section below!
R. Earl
March 9, 2024 at 7:40 pm
Not only NO, but HELL NO!!!!!!
Jerry C.
March 10, 2024 at 3:44 am
This kind of stupidity is why America should have 1 rule of law, throughout. The states should be only administrative regions with state legislatures doing budgets and nothing more. Anything that is legal for me to do & own, as an American, in Michigan should be just as legal in Commiefornia or any other state. No states legalizing that which is illegal under federal law. No states outlawing that which is legal under federal law. Are we a single Nation or not?
Jerry C.
March 10, 2024 at 3:58 am
I’d like to know where Commiefornia thinks they’re gonna get the power to charge all those electric cars when they can’t avoid summer brownouts, now, when people use their damn air conditioners. They’ll certainly be getting less hydroelectric power. Wind is undependable and screws with local weather patterns. Solar is also undependable in the daytime, useless at night, and requires huge areas to be covered with panels to produce even a pittance. Are they gonna build more nuclear power plants? Seeing as the general rule of thumb is 3x, (it’ll take three times as many years as initially planned to complete and cost at least 3 times the original projected budget,) I don’t see them building a lot of those, (in the worst possible place to put them – an earthquake zone,) without robbing the rest of the states of one helluva lot of federal tax dollars.
Don
March 10, 2024 at 7:32 am
Banning the vehicles is a commie scam to restrict our travel only and idiocy by the climate clowns.
SHRW
March 10, 2024 at 11:48 am
California has become an insane asylum. And the mentally impaired are running the place.
bruce
March 10, 2024 at 9:45 pm
All the Democrat ‘bigwigs’ whether state or federal are listening to a group of so-called environmentalists making a living by selling half lies. Why don’t they do something about the major polluters like Brazil burning down the Amazon rainforest for crop land, or India burning tons of garbage everyday as seen by satellites, or China’s gross pollution by burning inferior (dirty) coal to power their industries. A gasoline engine (not a motor) with today’s computer technology should be able to get at least triple the mileage without the catalytic converter (it requires gas to keep it from melting down) not good for any vehicle. Electric cars need to charge batteries for the electric grid which is already over taxed and water is a golden necessity not to be wasted oh hydro-electric generation or fuel-oil to run diesel-electric generators.
lou
October 4, 2024 at 7:29 am
they just called back 167,000..00 jeeps they were burning down houses and also those batteries are not safe its all a status symbol thats all gas is better.
Hcatguy
October 22, 2024 at 8:00 am
Nothing like recycling stories, original posting March 9th
Joan
October 27, 2024 at 11:17 am
Alot of these people in CA that want to ban gas powered cars are still flying around the country in private jets. If CA wants to do that, they should go all out. Everyone has to live within a mile of where they work and walk everyone where. No electric cars. The batteries are bad for the environment and they can explode which causes fires and we know fires are bad for the environment. Just Walk.
JUDITH TURTON
October 27, 2024 at 9:34 pm
ARE THEY ON THE .PAYING FOR US TO HAVE ELECTRIC CAR’S I THINK NOT!!!!