Where are the antitrust cops when you need them? Stellantis and California this week struck a deal to protect the state’s electric-vehicle mandate from future political and legal challenges. Here’s another illustration of collusion between big government and big business that hurts Americans.
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has banned the sale of new gas-powered cars in the state by 2035. Unlike Biden Administration officials, progressives in Sacramento are honest about their plan to phase-out gas-powered cars. EV sales will have to ramp up fast over the next decade, making up 51% of sales by 2028 and 100% by 2035.
A Clean Air Act waiver from the Biden Environmental Protection Agency lets California impose its own greenhouse-gas emissions standards and other states to follow them. While California is waiting on the EPA to extend its waiver through 2035, its EV mandate is already creating headaches for car companies.
Auto makers essentially hedged their regulatory risk, knowing Mr. Trump could lose re-election or that his Administration could lose its legal battle with California. Their hedge paid off when Mr. Biden won and restored California’s waiver. Other auto makers that didn’t cut deals with California now operate at a regulatory disadvantage.
In any case, the biggest losers of this “partnership” with California will be Americans across the country who will have fewer gas-powered options. California is imposing its EV mandate nationwide by using regulation to take auto makers hostage. Mr. Newsom may not be running for President in November, but he already acts as if he governs the country.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom proclaimed: “This partnership with Stellantis will help California achieve our ambitious goals." What are the goals of Gavin and his cohort of global warming fanatics? Their ultimate goal is not to save the planet. The distortions and outright lies that the global warming politicians are trying to foist on us are intended to force a move away from capitalism to an economy that is controlled by the state. The forced move to EVs is not about science or changing the weather, but about re-shaping the US economy.
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The Church of Global Climate Warming is a Trojan horse for income redistribution.
Not just "a move away from capitalism" but full frontal communism - coming to a neighborhood near you.
@CheerfulBobolinkVeteran1mo1MO
I honestly don't understand how the left can vote for candidates that back nonsensical policies like this. They really seem to be living in an alternate universe.
Open borders, racial disunity, just plain weird pronoun nonsense, sexualization of our children. It just seems really very odd, yet they vote for it, I don't get it
SF just swung back to moderate, it's a bit nuanced than you think. Wealthy liberals cry about racial justice but uphold all the barriers that maintain injustice. But conservatives "racial unity" seems to mean that we don't teach or talk about the evil and legacy of our own history. The people who upheld Jim Crow and segregation are still alive and in positions of power today. If anything, we need to be MORE open and transparent about the crimes that this nation has done in the past to black and native people.
This is a mass delusion, that should not be allowed to spread to other States. The CA grid is so unreliable, over 25 years, we often moved to a local hotel, when the power went out. Some years, we were electrical refugees so often, the valets knew the dog by name. Now, CA expects that same grid to support tens of millions of EVs?
CA is full of engineers, surely a few of them realize, unlike oil, electricity is not an energy source, but a delivery system. The power must be derived from another source. What is that?
Recently, a WSJ reporter visited 120 LA charging stations, nearly 30% were not working. Much of CA swims in crime. Are residents, especially women, suppose to visit remote chargers, at night, and hope for the best?
I'm struggling to find where in the Constitution it allows a single state to regulate Interstate Commerce like this does.
@9L3YWHP1mo1MO
I think that California doesn't have an electrical grid that can support their current electrical needs and regularly has rolling black outs. How are they going to manage a state full of electric vehicles requiring charging? They have to have major work on their electrical grid before this can even begin to be realistic.
@9L3YHT31mo1MO
I don't feel that electric cars should be mandated. Too much of one thing, isn't the answer. I like the hybrid option, and don't believe that we can or should abolish fuel powered vehicles.
@9L3Y25N1mo1MO
It’s stupid and unconstitutional
@9L3XYDRIndependent1mo1MO
While the mandate is convincing that the writing on the wall for gas-powered vehicles is imminent, it is too early to at least make it a mandatory mandate for a state. The market and demand for electric vehicles are not yet high enough to consider a necessary mandate. Rather than implementing this, the state should promote the benefits of electric vehicles and allow tax incentives for citizens who own electric vehicles to slowly build up a sizeable population of electric vehicle owners. That way when a good sizeable amount of owners is enough for a state like California, then the mandate can go through.
@9L3XWQ51mo1MO
An electric vechile should be a choice but not mandatory.
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