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Democrats Back Bill To Ban The Sale Of Gas-Powered Cars By 2040
dailycaller.com ^ | 5/15/2019 | Michael Bastasch

Posted on 05/15/2019 9:36:54 AM PDT by rktman

Democrats will introduce legislation to mandate zero-emissions vehicles make up all new car sales by 2040. The bill is co-sponsored by three Democrats running for president in 2020 who support the Green New Deal. The internal combustion engine has long been a target for environmentalists.

Democrats will introduce legislation to completely phase out the use of gasoline-powered cars by mandating that only zero-emissions vehicles can be sold by 2040.

“When I take a lungful of air in this moment, it has 30 percent more carbon in it than when I was born,” Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, the bill’s main sponsor told The Huffington Post on Wednesday. “That is a change that has never happened in a single generation of humankind on this planet.”

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And you should be damn grateful instead of whining. Kids in Africa are not able to suck in that much carbon. Guess nobody handed them the report on "zero emissions" vehicles and the amount of crap required to produce them? Just when you thought they couldn't be any stoopider. Guess murklee's mom was pro-life?
1 posted on 05/15/2019 9:36:54 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

I will be 72 and they will still have to run me down in my Dodge Charger and I will make sure I have nitrous by then!!

I HATE being told what to do or what to buy!!!!

I hate even MORE being told what I CAN’T DO or BUY!


2 posted on 05/15/2019 9:38:50 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: rktman

Insanity.


3 posted on 05/15/2019 9:39:36 AM PDT by Innovative
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To: dp0622

Yeah, well, I’ll be 93 and they’ll have to pry the key FOB for my Ram out of my arthritic fingers.


4 posted on 05/15/2019 9:40:29 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: dp0622

I’m shopping for a new water heater to replace a 75 gallon unit. I was told yesterday that 75 and 100 gallon electric water heaters are banned. The contractor proposed installing TWO 50 gallon units side by side.

Like you, I HATE being controlled by those GD bastards in government.


5 posted on 05/15/2019 9:41:55 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: rktman

It’s about control.

CO2 has nothing to do with it.

It’s just the convenient vehicle.


6 posted on 05/15/2019 9:42:07 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: rktman

I just hope there are enough semi-sane people in Congress and the bill won’t pass.


7 posted on 05/15/2019 9:42:42 AM PDT by Innovative
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Soon by a government near you - ration cards. The state will issue ration cards controlling how many miles you can drive in a month (it is for the children). Everyone will get one card for 100 miles, sorry if you have to drive further but we have to save the earth don’t you know. /S (was “s” really needed?


8 posted on 05/15/2019 9:43:48 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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LOL

I’ve noticed I can’t tell a person’s age by their posts.

I thought you were around the same age as me.

It’s good to know that 20 years from now I’ll still be funny and sharp still :)

Well, not that I ever was :)

Ciao!


9 posted on 05/15/2019 9:44:04 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: rktman

This initiative has nothing to do with protecting the environment. Automobiles represent freedom and movement. Statists want to restrict everyone.


10 posted on 05/15/2019 9:45:00 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Isn't it funny that the very people who scream "My body, my choice" wants a say in your healthcare?)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I hate and despise the gov-co control freaks.


11 posted on 05/15/2019 9:45:33 AM PDT by wally_bert (Disc jockeys are as interchangeable as spark plugs.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

AMEN!

This crap has to be turned back too.

The global climate nonsense makes the McCarthy issue look like nothing.

At least what he was talking about was REAL!

They are just whipping up a SCARE. And so many are falling for it.


12 posted on 05/15/2019 9:45:38 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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I’ll be 90 and riding an electric vehicle anyway.


13 posted on 05/15/2019 9:45:43 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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To: Innovative

What’s with the liberal tendency to say “humankind” instead of “mankind”?

I realize that liberals think that the word mankind is offensive to women, because it has “man” in it. But humankind also has “man”. So they are still not achieving the goal of elimination of reference to man.


14 posted on 05/15/2019 9:46:10 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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By 2040, battery-electric cars and fuel-cell cars would have the same range (and same recharging/refueling rate) as today’s gasoline-fueled cars. In fact, battery charging rates would be almost the same as fueling a gasoline fueled car possibly as early as 2026.


15 posted on 05/15/2019 9:48:08 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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Forget about the impossibility of meeting this goal and the cost of it if we did.

The only people who are going to support this is that small slice of Americans who are severe environmentalists and Climat Chage warriors.

I view this as a positive-—for Trump and the GOP. Most folks are not convinced that electric cars are for them yet.


16 posted on 05/15/2019 9:48:58 AM PDT by wildbill
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This idiots think if they mandate this, we will buy electric cars from Detroit.
Obama already tried this and failed.

Not sure if this is pro-Tesla or anti-Tesla legislation as Musk has fallen out of favor with the Uber-Left.


17 posted on 05/15/2019 9:49:33 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

banned by whom? are you in a upper floor condo?


18 posted on 05/15/2019 9:50:11 AM PDT by RitchieAprile
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To: rktman

I’ll be 96 or not present and I plan to get one more car before I’m too old - hopefully a 1000hp gas fueled mid engined corvette


19 posted on 05/15/2019 9:50:49 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: RayChuang88

And the power plants that will generate the electricity to charge all those batteries will be fueled by fairy dust.


20 posted on 05/15/2019 9:50:58 AM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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