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Maryland governor unveils plan to phase out new gas-powered cars
The Hill ^ | 03/14/2023 | ZACK BUDRYK

Posted on 03/14/2023 12:26:09 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Maryland will become the latest state to adopt the clean-car rules that originated in California, phasing out new gas-powered car sales by 2035, Gov. Wes Moore (D) announced Monday.

The Advanced Clean Cars II rule, first implemented in California in 2022 under a provision of the Clean Air Act, allows states to impose stricter car standards than their federal counterparts. The standards are not retroactive to existing cars or to used car sales.

“Today, we’re talking about a major transformation that is going to define this administration—and that’s how we turn Maryland from a state powered by oil and gas to a state powered by clean energy,” Moore said in a statement. “I am confident that the state of Maryland can and will lead the clean energy revolution.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: cars; donatefreerepublic; ecars; maryland; out; phase
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Hogan set the table for this crap.
1 posted on 03/14/2023 12:26:09 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27
More proof that:
The only good communist is a dead communist...
It is our duty as citizens to help everyone be as good as they can be...
2 posted on 03/14/2023 12:27:07 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wonder what will happen in 2035?

Will we have a patchwork quilt map of states, which will show the liberal states are banning internal combustion engine vehicles, while more conservative states still allow same?

This could get ugly, as we are compelled/forced, whatever the right term is, to get electric cars, whether we want them or not, whether the electrical grid can handle the charging of those vehicles or not.


3 posted on 03/14/2023 12:29:43 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Viking2002; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

MD ping!


4 posted on 03/14/2023 12:29:57 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
This is bad on so many levels.

1. No government at the state level or any level has any business telling people how to live their lives, including what kind of car they can or can't drive.

2. As much as my wife and I like our EV, EV's aren't good for all situations. In fact, we have an old used ICE pickup in part for the trips we take that an EV isn't good for. And that's with us living in the south. If we lived up north (i.e. Maryland) where it's often too cold for EV's we probably wouldn't have one. And don't get me started on EV trucks not being half as good as an ICE EV when hauling cargo more than 100 miles.

5 posted on 03/14/2023 12:30:00 PM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27; SuperLuminal

Well, this can be a good thing!

How many of the Washington, DC swamp creatures live in Maryland? Hundreds of thousands.

When they aren’t able to get to work because of cold weather and no electricity then we will be free of their stupidity for those days, weeks, months............


6 posted on 03/14/2023 12:30:17 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SuperLuminal

Great ideas sell themselves they don’t have to be shoved down peoples throats.


7 posted on 03/14/2023 12:30:25 PM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Out of control government is out of control.


8 posted on 03/14/2023 12:31:44 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

How about trying to take a driving vacation with your ICE car & no gas stations???


9 posted on 03/14/2023 12:32:58 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Governments grabbing power they have NO RIGHT to have


10 posted on 03/14/2023 12:34:15 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I prefer the phase out of Marxist governors......


11 posted on 03/14/2023 12:34:29 PM PDT by G Larry ( "woke" means 'stupid enough to fall for the promotion of every human weakness into a virtue')
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Gas cars will become much more valuable when you can’t get a new one. Of course, getting parts might be a problem.


12 posted on 03/14/2023 12:34:57 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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To: ridesthemiles

That could be some of the fallout from all of this. Will gas stations be eventually phased out or severely restricted? So that you won’t be able to refuel your gasoline powered car, which would then be part of the incentive to get an electric car?


13 posted on 03/14/2023 12:35:31 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: V_TWIN

Watch out Forcing EVs will be the new version of the “VAX Mandate”
EVs are Safe and Effective.


14 posted on 03/14/2023 12:36:08 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

By 2035 all this will be a dead letter. We will be too busy trying to survive, much less “go green.”


15 posted on 03/14/2023 12:36:08 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It is going to fail. Of its own accord.

The infrastructure will not be in place until 2150 at the earliest. It takes 40 minutes to fill an EV to get 400 miles. It takes 5 to do that now using gasoline.

Most gasoline stations have 10 to 24 pumps. EV has 1 or 2 per charging station. This plan means people will be spending 4 to 6 hours in line to get charged.


16 posted on 03/14/2023 12:36:38 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Difference between a cow and the US Capitol 1/6 "riot:" you can only milk a cow 3 times a day)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Electric cars are a DEAD-END


17 posted on 03/14/2023 12:36:44 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Clown governor.


18 posted on 03/14/2023 12:37:18 PM PDT by Vision (Woke is communism and it has no place in America. Election Reform Now! Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maryland doesn’t have the MW-carrying capacity to support it.


19 posted on 03/14/2023 12:37:30 PM PDT by mikey_hates_everything
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Who is going to pay for the billions of small batteries in the battery packs of these cars to recycle them or dispose of them. Each Tesla has about 7800 of the little D size cell in the battery packs and they are exchanged every 30k miles. The billions of little batteries are an ecological nightmare and expensive to dispose of. None of the Climate activists have mentioned anything about them.


20 posted on 03/14/2023 12:37:43 PM PDT by chopperk ( )
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