California Governor Gavin Newsom Bans Sale Of Gas-Powered Cars In State By 2035 - I'm sure poor people will be able to afford electric cars by then.

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I'm sure people won't just buy their cars in the surrounding states and drive back to California.

Also, Teslas should be cheap enough for poor people in 15 years.

“We need bold action,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom on Wednesday. Shortly before that statement, Newsom lived up to those words by issuing an executive order mandating that all new passenger vehicles sold in the state to be zero-emission by 2035.

The governor said bluntly, “CA is phasing out the internal combustion engine. By 2035 every new car sold in CA will be an emission free vehicle.”

“Of all the simultaneous crises that we face,” Newsom announced, “the biggest is the climate crisis.” His goal, he said, was to “detoxify the economy.”

By 2045, the governor announced, trucks would need to adhere to the standards, as well. But a later statement from Newsom’s office said medium- and heavy-duty vehicles would be required to transition “where feasible.”

“You can still keep your internal combustion cars,” said the governor. “You can still trade them, sell them. We are not taking them away.”

“This is the most impactful step our state can take to fight climate change,” Newsom continued. “For too many decades, we have allowed cars to pollute the air that our children and families breathe. You deserve to have a car that doesn’t give your kids asthma. Our cars shouldn’t make wildfires worse – and create more days filled with smoky air. Cars shouldn’t melt glaciers or raise sea levels threatening our cherished beaches and coastlines.”

In a statement, the governor’s office maintained that the transition “would achieve more than a 35 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and an 80 percent improvement in oxides of nitrogen emissions from cars statewide.”

He said the transportation sector in CA represents more than 50% of its emissions. In terms of reducing emissions overall, Newsom maintained, “We can’t get there unless we accelerate our actions in the transportation sector.”

“We will move forward to green our fleet here in the state,” he said.

Currently California has 34 manufacturers of eclectic vehicles, reported the governor. The state’s second largest export, said Newsom, is electric vehicles. “This is an economic opportunity,” he said. He also insisted that the mandate was for zero-emission vehicles, and was not specific to all-electric vehicles.

Newsom’s power to issue the executive order comes via his stewardship of the California Air Resources Board. When asked why he didn’t seek legislative action instead, Newsom said, “This moment demands leadership. It demands movement.”

“This is the next big global industry,” declared Newsom, “and California wants to dominate it.”

Coincidentally — or maybe not coincidentally — Tesla founder Elon Musk on Tuesday shared a photo of the company’s new all-electric semi.

“Bill Ford gets it,” said of the Ford Motor Company scion. “Honda, Volvo, BMW get it.” He said those companies are investing billions and billions of dollars in meeting the Obama-era emissions standard, despite the fact that President Trump rolled it back.

He also highlighted the fact that Volkswagen had on Wednesday introduced its first all-electric SUV, the ID.4, which VW says is an “SUV that’s meant to bring electric vehicles to the mainstream.”

The governor said the state would incentivize adoption of the vehicles “through credits…through rebates.”

Newsom said he was also looking to inaugurate “a just transition” for the state’s many petroleum-producing companies. He said fracking in California would be phased out, but hinted there would be help for local businesses in that sector.

On September 8, Newsom spoke strongly about climate change and the need for action.

“Extreme fire events that we believe are climate-induced,” said the governor, require stronger commitments from state, local and federal governments.

When challenged on the cause of the fires, Newsom ticked off a list of extraordinary climate-related factors coming together this year including, “unprecedented temperatures, a heat dome, 14,000 lightning strikes over a 24-hour period and 150 million-plus dead trees related to a multi-year drought.”

He added: “I have no patience for climate-change deniers. It’s inconsistent with the reality on the ground, the facts.”

At that time the state had seen a record 2.6 million acres burned by wildfires. As Newsom made his announcement on Tuesday, that number had grown to 3.7 million acres.

Newsom previously spoke directly to President Donald Trump at a joint appearance about his environmental concerns. The president then dismissed comments by scientists about the need for action.

 

[b0o0pinsn0o0tz]

I see no way to really enforce this. Good job Newsom.

 

[Jones McCann]

Those used Tesla's will surely be good enough for the average consumer by then, what with all the Tesla mechanic shops far and wide.

Cars shouldn’t melt glaciers or raise sea levels threatening our cherished beaches and coastlines.

Ah yes the carbon neutral electric vehicle everyone! The cobalt mines will thank you for all the job oppurtunities this will create.

 

[Mr. Skeltal]

This won't backfire at all, nosiree. Especially with all of those wild fires that were totally not caused by aging PG&E high voltage lines or the fact that they're taking Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant offline in the next few years or the rolling brownouts. Nope, nothing that could go wrong at all.

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Those used Tesla's will surely be good enough for the average consumer by then, what with all the Tesla mechanic shops far and wide.



Ah yes the carbon neutral electric vehicle everyone! The cobalt mines will thank you for all the job oppurtunities this will create.

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If you think coltan mining is bad, I'll raise you rare earth elements mining. That shit will strip whole countrysides and bathe it in toxic solvents just to get a few tons of samarium, neodymium, yttrium, and others. Fun fact, Mountain Pass mine is the only quasi-operational REE mine in the US and is in California.

 

[Doodler98]

Very optimistic of him, thinking that by 2035 there's still gonna be people living in California.

 

[Ponchik]

by this point i've decided that if i haven't escaped newsom and this state by 2030 i may as well pack it in

 

[The Last Stand]

California is just ASKING to be evicted.

 

[Silas]

Can you imagine being someone who only goes a few miles a day that an electric car is more than sufficient for?

 

[Übertroon]

Not five years into the future

Not ten years into the future

Fifteen years into the future!

At that time Gavin Newsom is going to be a 77 year old geriatric with Alzheimer's

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Very optimistic of him, thinking that by 2035 there's still gonna be people living in California.

And that don't include people of northern California who finally have the guts to secession to create the state of Jefferson.

 

[usernames can change now!]

Poor people don't buy new cars anyways (and if they do they deserve to stay poor). And hopefully by 2035 used electric cars are a thing.

The A&H reflexive autism about "quiet car bad" is pretty funny though.

 

[Not Really Here]

Poor people don't buy new cars anyways (and if they do they deserve to stay poor). And hopefully by 2035 used electric cars are a thing.

The A&H reflexive autism about "quiet car bad" is pretty funny though.

Irrelevant.
The California power grid can't handle the amount of electricity required for this kind of changeover, and they don't have the generation required.

 

[usernames can change now!]

Irrelevant.
The California power grid can't handle the amount of electricity required for this kind of changeover, and they don't have the generation required.

That I can agree with, but that's not a fault of electric cars, that's the fault of half a century of gross mismanagement to the point of criminal negligence. Using the state that brought us PG&E and Enron as an example is unfair to the electricity industry.

Mass produce nuclear reactors and use them to power electric everything

 

[neverendingmidi]

Again?

Didn’t they require all cars sold in California to be electric by 2012?

 

[LUNEKO]

Poor people don't buy new cars anyways (and if they do they deserve to stay poor). And hopefully by 2035 used electric cars are a thing.

The A&H reflexive autism about "quiet car bad" is pretty funny though.

This would be fine, if it wasn't because its not just going to aim for brand new factory selling, they will crack down on the used cars market, they've been at it for a long time already, and of course with the change will come brand new expensive fines and sanctions for simply using fossil fuel cars, its not about "electric car bad" its about how they are aiming to fix traffic jams by completely removing the middle and low working class out of the streets

 

[Don't Tread on Me]

Poor people don't buy new cars anyways (and if they do they deserve to stay poor). And hopefully by 2035 used electric cars are a thing.

The A&H reflexive autism about "quiet car bad" is pretty funny though.

It's stupid because CA is not the US. CA auto dealers will essentially have to rely on convenience of location to compete with the price of vehicles in other states.

 

[Salubrious]

Maybe this is a sinister plan by the bicycle industry? For most people, traveling by bike will be more convenient than electric car.

Only problem is that by 2035, we'll probably look like Wall-E.

 

[Marissa Moira]

This won't do anything, by 2035 California will have less of a population than Alaska.

 

[usernames can change now!]

Maybe this is a sinister plan by the bicycle industry? For most people, traveling by bike will be more convenient than electric car.

Only problem is that by 2035, we'll probably look like Wall-E.

In what world is a bicycle possibly more convenient then any form of car? I'd rather spend the hour to warm up the boiler on a fucking steam powered car than be caught dead on a bike.

 

[Iwasamwillbe]

The day that Gavin Newsom and his clique of cronies finally get run out of California will be a good day for the state as a whole.