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2022-08-27 -Great Cultural Revolution

Washington and Massachusetts to follow California's gas car sales ban

[FoxBusinessNews] States can opt into California Air Resources Board policies.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee announced on Thursday that the state would join California in phasing out new gas and diesel car sales by 2035.

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) that governs motor vehicle emissions for the state adopted new rules that will require 35% of the new cars sold in the state are electric or plug-in hybrids by 2026, with that percentage rising to 68% by 2030 and 100% by 2035.

California has a waiver from the federal government to set its own air quality rules, and other states are allowed to opt into its regulations, which are typically more stringent than the national standards.

Washington and Massachusetts have laws on the books that were written to trigger gas car sales bans if CARB passed one.

Washington has over 100,000 electric vehicles registered, giving it one of the highest per capita concentrations in the U.S., with EVs accounting for 8% of registrations in July.

Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Nevada, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont and Washington D.C., currently follow CARB rules on car emissions, but they have not yet officially announced electric car mandates.

CARB's rule still needs final federal government approval to go into effect, and Washington and Massachusetts will need to move forward with codifying the regulations before they can be enforced.

The sale of used gas and diesel cars will not be restricted and owners of non-EVs purchased out of state will still be allowed to register them.

For now, anyway. This is going to become another driver for conservative and working class flight from Blue states, no doubt to be followed by more factories moving to where workers can be found.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-08-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [21 views ] Top
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#1 Thank God I'm leaving Washington.

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-08-27 01:26|| 2022-08-27 01:26|| Front Page Top

#2 I'm not worried...Looking to purchase one of these:
French-Hybrid Car Ventile with Wind Turbines as Battery Recharger

Rube Goldberg inspired, what can go wrong...🤪

Posted by Skunky Ebbaique3137 2022-08-27 07:39|| 2022-08-27 07:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Please don't give them any ideas. People who believe gender is 'fluid' would find the above entirely possible. I can see the $1T congressional grant to develop it now.

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-08-27 07:53|| 2022-08-27 07:53|| Front Page Top

#4 I see wheels like that around here. There's regular tread on the tires, but the sidewalls are about that size.

They look especially stupid on a Bentley or a jacked up pickup truck.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-27 08:07|| 2022-08-27 08:07|| Front Page Top

#5 As an alternative, this historic model, upgraded to 21st Century standards...😁😕😲

Posted by Bob Omavith3833 2022-08-27 09:31|| 2022-08-27 09:31|| Front Page Top

#6 Those states all have interstate highways. What exactly is the solution for vehicles involved in shipping or simple domestic travel through the state? They will still need to sell diesel and unleaded.

Posted by Cesare 2022-08-27 09:32|| 2022-08-27 09:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Two more alternative transportation candidates for California, Washington and Massachusetts...

Posted by Bob Omavith3833 2022-08-27 09:40|| 2022-08-27 09:40|| Front Page Top

#8 California won't tolerate the equine flatus or the slave labor.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-27 09:41|| 2022-08-27 09:41|| Front Page Top

#9 Baker Electric Car with Solar panel on roof!
"What is Old IS New Again!"

Posted by Bob Omavith3833 2022-08-27 09:50|| 2022-08-27 09:50|| Front Page Top

#10 #4 I kind of like the "pimped" look, very classy!

Posted by Bob Omavith3833 2022-08-27 09:55|| 2022-08-27 09:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Another view -- Bentley SUV
Now if were electric, super classy, nice blue.

Posted by Bob Omavith3833 2022-08-27 10:03|| 2022-08-27 10:03|| Front Page Top

#12 Today’s Seattle Times talked about a neighborhood charging program where the city utility would install one or two streetside chargers per district (max 14). Users would pay for electricity, installation covered by grants ( all of us).
Comment section in paper tore this to shreds, so that means full speed ahead.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2022-08-27 10:36|| 2022-08-27 10:36|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ I see a "tragedy of the commons," some un-neighborly damage to vehicles using the charger and some knock-down, drag-out fisticuffs over same. And then a killing. Or several...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-27 10:44|| 2022-08-27 10:44|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ Amazing Clairvoyance - You read the human nature of the 21st Century Homo Sapiens with aplomb, may I suggest a dedicated 911 callbox be installed at every "charging station"... for such events, otherwise, hammer met nail with two blows from the hammerhead, the nail met its home.

Posted by Caesar Angulet1740 2022-08-27 10:55|| 2022-08-27 10:55|| Front Page Top

#15 We need an update on that bullet train to nowhere!

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-08-27 12:09|| 2022-08-27 12:09|| Front Page Top

#16 They are trying to attract the Amish.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-08-27 12:27|| 2022-08-27 12:27|| Front Page Top

#17 It seems to me that these states are effectively seceding from the union with this self-isolation policy with. With the high taxes in these Dem blue states; people will be fleeing to greener pastures. They will lose their tax and voting bases.

Posted by JohnQC 2022-08-27 14:41|| 2022-08-27 14:41|| Front Page Top

#18 #12 They forgot the USB charges for the homeless.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-08-27 16:23|| 2022-08-27 16:23|| Front Page Top

#19 They forgot the USB charges for the homeless.

Most of the homeless have a SCSI interface, I believe.

Posted by SteveS 2022-08-27 16:36|| 2022-08-27 16:36|| Front Page Top

#20 Remember how the pols push diesel as the cheaper than gas alternative? And it was, for a while, but not now!

Posted by Bobby 2022-08-27 18:32|| 2022-08-27 18:32|| Front Page Top

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