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-Great Cultural Revolution
California to begin plan for its sweeping BAN on new gasoline car sales TOMORROW in bid to reach 100 percent zero emissions by 2035
2022-08-25
  • California will start its ban on the sale of new gasoline-powered vehicles Thursday, which was first announced in 2020

  • The goal is to stop the sale of all new gasoline vehicles by 2035

  • This, according to officials, aims to reduce smog and combat climate change

  • Thursday's launch will require that 35 percent of new passenger vehicles sold in the state by 2026 produce zero emissions

  • Then 68 percent by 2030 and ultimately 100 percent five years after.

Posted by:Skidmark

#19  Please hold on, WM! Remember that whiskey is better when it is aged!
Posted by: magpie   2022-08-25 22:01  

#18  Amen, Whiskey Mike
Posted by: Frank G   2022-08-25 20:39  

#17  I am so glad I am dying.

Wait — what?! Don’t do that, Whiskey Mike— I’d miss you dreadfully.
Posted by: trailing wife   2022-08-25 20:32  

#16  How long before California ban's people from moving out?

Or continue to tax people up to 5 years after they move out?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2022-08-25 20:27  

#15  I am so glad I am dying. Biden et al sucks.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2022-08-25 20:05  

#14  I see California has Don't Move to Texas signs out. They are using the Uvalde Massacre to scare them home, but it is in San Francisco, so that is super classy.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2022-08-25 18:57  

#13  

Willing to bet the big winners will be The Elite who will be invested in and control the needed Energy Supply sources?
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-08-25 18:16  

#12  The people who win out of this initiative are the car dealers in Reno. That is the result of every piece of California stupid legislation - prosperity elsewhere.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-08-25 16:52  

#11  ^ Unicorn farts, of course. The one gas that greens have no problem with.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2022-08-25 16:32  

#10  
The tree hugging idiots that haven't asked the basic question.

Where is all the ENERGY going to come from to charge and power the estimated 15+ Million E-vehicles?

A slightly deeper walk through of needed Energy

IF every one of the 15M fuel powered vehicles in CAL. was replaced today with an EV. The power needed by the E-vehicles on average is about 40 kWh a day to fully recharge a depleted battery.

That means around 15,000,000 EV's will need on Avg. 40 kWh per day. Which works out to about 600,000,000 kWh needed for EV's per day. Or about 219,000,000,000 kWh per year.

We haven't even discussed all the energy needed to mine the Rare Earth materials for the EV's and dispose of the HAZMAT generated waste & batteries.

SO Where is this power going to come from and not screw up their tree hugging Mother Earth environment somewhere?
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-08-25 16:30  

#9  What did Socialist California have before bicycles? Automobiles.
Posted by: magpie   2022-08-25 15:46  

#8  In the coming Urban Utopia you will not need cars. Public transportation will take you everywhere you need to go.

Take a ride on the San Diego Trolley sometime if you want to see how that public transportation will work. Spoiler alert: It ain't pretty and it ain't on time either.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2022-08-25 13:00  

#7  When is the California Highway Patrol going 'all electric' ???
Posted by: magpie   2022-08-25 12:39  

#6  Brilliant plan to remove the road congestion. I'm sure the power grid can handle the load... E everybody will be driving tractors.

Posted by: Warthog   2022-08-25 08:30  

#5  They thought they had brownouts before. Full blackouts coming to you!
Posted by: DarthVader   2022-08-25 08:24  

#4  In the coming Urban Utopia you will not need cars. Public transportation will take you everywhere you need to go. Rural areas will be reserved for food and green energy production.

All land is government land.
Posted by: Besoeker   2022-08-25 08:21  

#3  More aviation fuel for the elite.
Posted by: Snash Shairt9621   2022-08-25 08:04  

#2  Chinese province aims to be first to ban sales of gasoline cars
Posted by: Skidmark   2022-08-25 05:16  

#1  Let the shitshow begin!
Posted by: Raj   2022-08-25 00:20  

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