Posted on 09/29/2020 11:51:16 AM PDT by karpov
The federal government is raising legal and practical questions about a recent California executive order attempting to end sales of gas-powered cars in the state by 2035.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler wrote to California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Monday, saying he believes California would need to request a waiver from his agency for the order to be implemented and implying that the state’s electricity infrastructure is insufficient for a shift toward electric vehicles.
“While the [executive order] seems to be mostly aspirational and on its own would accomplish very little, any attempt by the California Air Resources Board to implement sections of it may require California to request a waiver to U.S. EPA,” Wheeler wrote.
The EPA last year revoked a waiver that allowed California to set its own vehicle tailpipe emissions standards, so it appears unlikely that the agency would grant one on car sales under the current administration.
California, alongside 22 other states, has sued the agency over that decision, arguing that its standards were achievable and that the EPA’s decision is bad for climate change.
The executive order also comes as California has recently faced rolling blackouts, Wheeler noted.
“California’s record of rolling blackouts — unprecedented in size and scope — coupled with recent requests to neighboring states for power begs the question of how you expect to run an electric car fleet that will come with significant increases in electricity demand, when you can’t even keep the lights on today,” the country’s top environmental official wrote.
“The truth is that if the state were driving 100 percent electric vehicles today, the state would be dealing with even worse power shortages
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King Gavin the First
This brings up something that I failed to notice: CARB (California Air Resource Board) is extremely powerful and corrupt and has vast overreach over Californians in all sectors of the economy and even some authority over civil rights. The Fuhrer Newsome just made CARB even more powerful by his mandate, making it perhaps the most powerful bureaucracy in the state. Brilliant Marxist tactic since CARB has virtually no oversight and has vast powers over the people.
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The EPA needs to Withdraw ALL Waivers to California ASAP and put the evil CARB out of Business
It isn’t legal
It was a political posturing stunt.
That mandate would have come legislatively...
Why fight this? The next pinch in life they will reverse it.
They don’t have the right to restrict what we drive. But they have usurped so many rights that they don’t have, that there’s no way to fight them any more.
The rush to totalitarianism should have been stopped as soon as it started.
SPJNK.
The pictures I have seen of antique cars in Havana Cuba are in many respects cute and indicative of the stupid laws that have destroyed that countries economy.
I think it would be cute if California did away with the sale of new gasoline powered vehicles. It can become the new Havana. After a while the tourist industry would just start to love all the vintage taxi’s and rental cars you could ride in.
As they say never get in the way of interfering when you enemy is busy destroying themselves.
Gruesome Newsome: presently the biggest and most corrupt POS inside California. The two US Senators would be giving him a run for the money except they spend much of their time outside of California attempting to tear down the Federal government.
Vehicles should be converted to propane or compressed natural gas for fuel anyway. There is just not enough in the way of resources to BUILD all the batteries necessary for the widespread adoption of electric-powered vehicles, without an on-board fuel-cell electric generation system.
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