Posted on 11/01/2017 7:09:48 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Is it possible to imagine a world without carbon-spewing gasoline-powered cars and trucks? California should join the effort and move toward banning sales of new carbon-emitting vehicles as soon as is practical. And maybe even a little sooner.
It has become clear that the free market is not working fast enough to wean us from our dependence on fossils fuels to power our cars and trucks, which account for more than 10% of man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
The national movements to end sales of gas-powered engines are in response to the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to less than 2 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels, a worldwide pledge that our climate-change-denying president has reneged on as a “bad deal.”
It will not be an easy, and likely not a cheap, transition. But the dangers and costs of sitting here in idle are too high to ignore. We’re already seeing the costs of larger and stronger hurricanes. Rising seas will destroy low-lying developed areas — including naval bases and ports — along the nation’s coastlines. The Trump administration can’t be counted on to do anything, but California can join the rest of the world’s progressive leaders in tackling this problem. The risks, if the world fails to take bold steps, veer into the unimaginable.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
L A Times doesn’t care much for Liberty.
Making everyone use electric cars is a control on Movement
Ping.
Jan and Dean are rolling in their graves (well, at least half of ‘em).
THAT, and forcing mass transit and buses.
These people need to GTFO of the country and go to North Korea—where the mule reigns supreme.
Ha ha! “The Free Market” isn’t moving fast enough to give us exactly what we demand! Where did they find these dolts?
A government that will take away your guns
will have no qualms about taking away your car,
or your life.
Today’s classic example of the insanity brought on by the mental disease known as liberalism on full display. These people need to be locked up in an insane asylum and given lobotomy treatments....it surely couldn’t hurt em.
Is it possible to imagine a media without feces spewing propaganda claiming objectivity?
Let’s get rid of all the illegals and then send all the chain migration people back home and cut the visas to nothing. Problem solved.
Just when you thought CA couldn’t get collectively stupider...they are more entertaining than intelligent.
What he does not say is what the replacement fuel is and he doesn’t seem to understand that electric cars are fueled by electricity generated by power plants that mostly use fossils fuels.
Don’t forget to spay/neuter them. No more expanding the low end of the gene pool.
Which jet-setting jackass wrote this?
I remember Johnny Olson (RIP) on The Price is Right mentioning that the new cars had California emission, lol.
I dont understand why the hundreds and hundreds of square miles of previously pristine landscape now covered by the largesr permanent blight ever constructed of solar panels and bird shredding windmillls is not considered the biggest crime against nature in history of all time. I hate driving US 395, or CA 14, or the imperial valley, or just about any road connecting the coast to the central valley, or the mojave or sonoran deserts.
I hope California holds a contest to find a way to solve that little problem. Because I think I'd win:
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